And She Fiddled...
by Tydides on Mar 3, 2009 7:57 PM PST
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PrintBy now many of you have seen bucknellbruin's fanshot, describing the House Resolution introduced by Los Angeles area Congresswoman Diane Watson. The resolution would honor SUC's Rose Bowl victory, despite the dishonorable things their merry band of thugs does on and off the field.
I ask Diane, does the following clip strike you as something that should be honored and celebrated?
Heartwarming, no?
This is what you endorse by passing such a resolution. Not to mention a laundry list of SCandals that help keep the LAPD busy. Is this really what you want to attach your name to Diane? Is it worth it? From her own bio:
Representative Watson attended Birdie Lee Bright Elementary School (formerly 36th Street School), Foshay Junior High School, and Dorsey High School. After graduating from High School, Congresswoman Watson attended Los Angeles City College and matriculated at UCLA, where she received a B.A. in Education. She also holds a M.A. in School Psychology from California State University, Los Angeles, and a Ph.D. in Educational Administration from the Claremont Graduate School.
I understand the need to represent all of your constituents, so maybe I can overlook this blatant act of betrayal. What I do not understand is introducing a worthless piece of legislation at a time like this. I would like to think the public servants in DC take the current crisis as seriously as the rest of us do. What I don't understand is glorifying the lawless culture downtown, people playing free and loose with the rules and ethics the same way so many others did nationwide and across the globe to get us into this mess in the first place. As retirement accounts, life savings, and home values shrink seemingly by the hour, it disgusts me that even a second is devoted in Washington to this kind of tripe. Rep. Watson, this legislation is the wrong message at the absolute wrong time. Rome is burning, Rep. Watson. Are you going to be Nero?
If you share the disgust and disappointment I feel at this diversion in attention from the problems that face us as a country, and you want her to GET BACK TO WORK, her contact info is here.
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Apparently only her constituents can e-mail her
I had no luck using the official contact link because I didn’t know the zip code for her district. I would be happy to add my two cents worth to the mix if someone can get me an actual e-mail address. One question would certainly be why she had to do anything at all. Sure, justsc paid good money for the team that won the Rose Bowl, and surely the trOJan family from inheritance hall will be tooting its ever-so-expensive horn. But Diane, you could have just sat still and let it go. Why on earth would you join in that celebration? That’s just wrong.
There is one good thing that goes along with having our congresspersons waste their time on drivel like this. As long as they’re messing around with meaningless baloney, they can’t be screwing up matters of substance. It is too much to ask, I suppose, for a real Bruin in congress to filibuster.
If you follow Nestor's link ...
Then select the 33rd District Tab and then Post Offices from the pull-down menu, it gives the addresses (with Zip Codes) of all the post offices in her district. Perhaps any one of those zip codes would work.
I tried various things, but ultimately got back to the same thing
and the bottom line is that I couldn’t find a zip code. I assume that someone (closer to teen age years than I am) will give me more explicit button-pushing instructions.
By the way, has anyone checked to see whether this person actually graduated from UCLA? I am suspicious. It wouldn’t be the first time that a trOJie had tried to make himself or herself look better by claiming a tie to UCLA.
Here's a map of her district
http://www.house.gov/watson/district_list.shtml
It includes Culver City for instance, so you might try any of these:
http://culvercity.areaconnect.com/zip2.htm?city=Culver%20City&qs=CA&searchtype=bycity
SUC is in her district
I guess she’s trying to make sure they keep pouring money into her coffers.
by Gen2Bruin1987 on Mar 4, 2009 9:40 AM PST up reply actions
You need a full address to email her
If you don’t live in her district, try using this one:
3501 Watts Way
Los Angeles, CA 90089-0601
by Gen2Bruin1987 on Mar 4, 2009 9:57 AM PST up reply actions
What a waste of our tax dollars
I’m almost speechless. Who in DC gives a crap about who won the Rose Bowl? Get back to the business of governing, Ms. Watson (aka fighting with the other party and getting nothing done).
Oh, and you’re also a traitor.
I am writing
an OP-ED piece to the Daily Bruin as we speak while my roommate sends her a colorful email. She will feel the wrath of the entire school soon enough.
Hope She Loses In The Next Election Out There
Los Angeles Rams and the UCLA Bruins!!!!!
by Minnesota Bruinfan on Mar 4, 2009 4:47 AM PST reply actions
Doubt it
I used to live in her district. Unless she faces a worthy Democratic opponent, she has it locked up. It’s a very solid blue district.
by bruinbabe2000 on Mar 4, 2009 6:54 AM PST up reply actions
Teams win Championships, Go to the White House
If someone wants to honor a Rose Bowl victory with some kind of meaningless House Resolution-it’s fine with me. Yea, its a slight waste of time, but the House can pass some positive resolutions during this time if they want—making people feel good might be the best way to get over this country’s confidence problem.
When SUC stops being the best football program in the country, they will stop being rewarded (even if they aren’t the cleanest campus in the country).
You beat me to it...
Yes, just found this on Politico, titled Watson Caught in USC-UCLA War. There are several comments, one purporting to be from OJ in jail.
Wonderful stuff
The intellectual differences between Bruins and trOJans were laid out beautifully. The best, of course, was the trOJie grad student who wanted to use the term “noblesse oblige” but spelled it wrong. Close seconds were all the trOJies who could not defeat the argument so they changed the subject.
Sorry trOJies, but you looked like fools in that exchange.
I see that you liked my comment there :)
So many trOJies to make fun of, so little time. Amazing how moronic they can sound, and it’s so pathetic that they think we are mad just because we are jealous of their football team.
But hey, what do I know. I’m just the 800 lbs bruin in the room.
Apparently,
nobody in Rep. Watson’s district has lost their job, their home, their retirement fund, or their life savings.
How terribly fortunate for her.
Love My Bruins
Never
It’s just trOJies trying to change the subject because they have nothing to say. Pathetic, truly pathetic. And they actually think we’re jealous because of their football team. Delusional.
But hey, what do I know. I’m just the 800 lbs bruin in the room.
OK, Thanks.
I just find that so incredibly incendiary, personally. I was a little stunned when I saw that, to tell you the truth.
Love My Bruins
Old news, 83, old news...
We are on to a SARS/Koala Pox hybrid virus for the USC football team to be afflicted with. Didn’t you get the latest memo? =P
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