To the Editor:
Rep. Erik Paulsen voted fro the TrumpCare bill last week. It appears that Paulsen is a man without a conscience. How else do you explain his vote to rip away health insurance from 24 million Americans? How else do you explain his vote that may stop covering pre-existing conditions? How else do you explain his vote taking away a phenomenal amount of money to help the poorest of the poor and the sickest of the sick so he can additionally line the pockets of the wealthiest people in America, people that do no need the additional tax cuts? Does Paulsen have a conscience, a heart, a soul, and a mind of his own?
The day after this disgraceful and deplorable vote, I heard on Minnesota Public Radio that Paulsen had declined their requested interview. It is said that a picture speaks a thousand words. Paulsen’s one word — NO — also speaks a thousand words. That one word paints a picture of a man so embarrassed by his disgusting vote that he could not even face this constituents in the form a brief radio interview. What a shame! What a shameful act!
I hope everyone in Paulsen’s congressional district will remember this act of cowardice and greed in next year’s midterm election. November of next year is not really all that far away. Assuming Paulsen runs for re-election I want everyone to remember this vote. I will remember this vote, and I vote in every election. Everyone in Paulsen’s district should be screaming, “Turn him out, turn him out, turn him out,” in an unending chorus until the bum is deservedly thrown out of office next year.
Health care should not be a partisan issue. Health care is not Democrat or Republican; it is American. Everyone in Congress should be working for affordable health care coverage for every single American.
James A. Bofenkamp, Coon Rapids
Blaine-Spring Lake Park Life, May 12, 2017