| "Thank you for contacting me regarding your support for H.R. 1070, the Constitution Restoration Act . . ."
Upon reading further down in the letter, I found that Walberg does support this act, but I do NOT support it.
I think I figured out the confusion though. The ACLU sent out an Action Alert not long ago, urging us to call our Senators and Rep. to tell them, among other things, that we support the Restoring the Constitution Act of 2007, which is an entirely different, nearly opposite in some ways, bill from the Constitution Restoration Act. The former is about civil liberties vis-a-vis checking the Executive branch, while the latter would curtail the Federal Judiciary (but for SCOTUS) from hearing many separation of church and state cases.
In other words, not only did my support for civil liberties go unrecognized, but it was taken as support for a position on an anti-civil liberties bill! In all honesty, I think the ACLU is partly to blame for this since the Restoring the Constitution Act of 2007 is being considered by the Senate, yet they also had us call our Rep. about it via this link: https://secure.aclu....
For those of you who got a letter like this, you might want to contact Walberg, as I did, and straighten it out. It's tough enough dealing with Congress when communication is good, but you certainly don't want to be chalked up as a constituent that supports something you don't. |
