That move caught my eye, and my ire. It also caught the attention of another person who put it rather well. See below.

I have a 7 year old son who comes home from school bright eyed and excited to learn about our Presidents. The son of an educator myself, I try to be a good father and further educate him about our history, our constitution and how our form of democracy works and then you F'ing S.O.B's turn around and pull [censored] like this. What the hell am I to tell my children now? This is not the democratic process I spent 8 yrs of my life overseas defending as a veteran of our great nation. Never in my wildest imagination did I think that my time spent in the sweltering desert heat of Kuwait, eating sea rats and avoiding land mines would be squandered defending the likes of you.

I understand this is pretty harsh language to write public officials, but the arrogance of you people to vote for SB 6843 deserves nothing less than the full venom of my Veteran Sailor Mouth. You are certainly are not acting like servants of the people, but rather arrogant snobs who view "we the people" as mere pawns in your social agenda chess game. I'm a good father, husband, veteran, citizen and neighbor and I am appalled that you would even consider voting against the will of the people. We have spoken, the courts have ruled and the law is the law. I don't care if you don't like I-960, it is the law and the will of the people. I don't think you have recourse, but if you think the times are so challenging that we need to revisit the issue, then you should send it back to the people to validate. For you to take matters in your own hand and go against the will of the people is simply - unconscionable.

While I'm certain that I would not agree with most of the democratic politics of Sen Hobbs, Kauffman, Kilmer, Marr and Sheldon, I do at least have respect for them for following the will of the people and voting no. Massachusetts was no fluke and actions like this only further alienate the voters. If you wonder why “we the people” are so angry, you need only look in the mirror and have yourself to blame. If you think that taxation is the way out of our budget mess (that you helped create), then you need only follow the will of the people and convince 2/3's of the House and Senate that this is our only recourse. If you can't do that, then go back to the table and cut spending to balance the budget. If the cuts are "too harsh" then you should think about that next time we have a budget surplus and you’re encouraged to "tuck it away for a rainy day" as you were encouraged to do only a couple short years ago. I understand I have the right to vote with my feet, but I’ll be damn if I'm going to surrender to a bunch of cowards who are trying to shanghai the democratic process. I’ve always been a coffee drinker, but having a Tea Party has never been so appealing. I don't understand why you are choosing to pick a fight with “we the people”, but if a fight is what you want, a fight is what you'll get...
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