Open Letter to Representative Randy Hultgren #4

Dear Congressman, 

By now, it is quite clear you have aligned yourself with the far right wing Republican contingent responsible for shutting down our government and threatening the debt ceiling crisis. Conservative commentator Charles Krauthammer has actually termed this contingent of about 79 other representatives as the “suicide caucus.”

Members of this “suicide caucus” signed a letter from Republican Mark Meadows, known as The Meadows Letter, which demands that House Speaker Boehner pass legislation to defund the Affordability Care Act (ACA–Obamacare) or shut down our government.

Back in August, you teamed up with Ted Cruz and a few other signers and supporters of the Meadows Letter for a Heritage Foundation event called Heritage Action Town Hall in Indiana in an effort to drum up support to defund the ACA.  Ted Cruz’s father, Rafael Cruz (who calls his son “the anointed one”) did the opening prayer.

This is part of a long-range effort put together by a large group of moneyed, corporate, well-oiled, well-fed conservatives and “think tanks” with an ideological bend toward forging a government by private corporations and religious extremists (Hence Rafael Cruz presence at the Indiana Heritage Action Town Hall meeting) — rather than a government of and by the American people. Government regulations meant to ensure regular folks aren’t abused by the health insurance industry, as they have been in the past, are not to these conservatives liking. Making sure sick and vulnerable people get adequate healthcare gets in the way of the corporate profit motive.

Representative  Hultgren:  You were part of the Heritage Action Town Hall in Indiana with Cruz. You signed The Meadows Letter. This government shut down did not come out of the blue. It was a planned strategy out of your conservative coalition that also aims to privatize education, Medicare, Social Security, Medicaid; end unions; and establish a flat tax (long known to be particularly unbalanced and hard on middle and working class incomes).

Unfortunately for many of us in IL- 14, you are not part of our parents’ Republican Party. Like Ted Cruz, you have  “gone off the reservation” and joined a distinctly ideologically rigid corporate driven model of government. What happened to “We the People”?   

Thanks to the Progressive Fox for their investigative reporting on this topic. For the full report go to: http://www.progressivefox.com/?p=5569)