| Sometimes I feel like Gary Peters and Mark Schauer are the two kids we sent off to college. They won their races, and departed the state for Washington D.C., only to be heard from when they come home to do laundry. Well, we need to give both of them a special shout-out (I'd have done it Friday, but there's this summer festival thing with fireworks and rides, and the boy who calls me dad demanded that I spend all day riding things I named "The Vomitator" and "The Vietnam POW Torture Cage"). Both voted in favor of critical climate change legislation, and both did it even though it was controversial and both of them are freshmen legislators (i.e. at their most vulnerable for taking controversial positions). Both of these representatives did what they were ultimately sent to Washington to do, which was represent the best interests of their constituents and the state of Michigan as a whole. Meanwhile, Grand Rapids Republican Vern Ehlers, who gives every impression that he understands climate change and energy (i.e. peak oil) votes no. Disappointing? Indeed it is. |
