Question: Is Paul Kanjorski a good representative for NEPA?
Answer: Until about 2005, it did not matter that much to me and perhaps many others. Life was easy in the US and nobody in NEPA was giving Paul Kanjorski a reason to show why he was the best or the worst for the area. When was the last time he had an opponent on the Democrat side?
There had been rumors as well as a Fox News Special about Paul Kanjorski not being as honest as he could have been, but even that expose offered that the Congressman broke no laws. Additionally, he was exonerated by his peers in Congress. The people of NEPA basically said that Paul Kanjorski is a good enough man that despite the alleged points of controversy, the majority of folks from NEPA chose to believe in the man.
I would have to climb inside of Paul Kanjorski's heart to know the answer to that question of whether he is a good or honest man as it requires me to speculate on his goodness, his honesty, and his concern for the section of NEPA that he represents. I cannot do that. Maybe we all should ask him that?
Despite not wanting to besmirch the thirteen year Congressman in any way, there are questions about where he was when the meltdown occurred. He was on the committees in charge that were intended to protect our assets. Did he do that? Were you protected? Additionally, I meet many people in my travels who tell me that Mr. Kanjorski is well loved by Wall Street. Check out his campaign finances. Is this true?
My own opinion is that Paul Kanjorski's recent interests are someplace other than Northeastern PA. Americans for Tax Reform suggested to Rep. Kanjorski days before the bill came up in the house that it would cost Pennsylvanians $636.7 Billion if Cap-and-Trade were passed. They urged the Congressman, who represents a state with many areas in which coal and gas (both carbon fuel)s are "mined," and certainly many areas of the state use coal to fire their electric plants. The cost to Pennsylvanians is a huge number that we will pay through higher taxes and forever higher energy costs. Why would Congressman Kanjorski vote in such a way as to hurt Pennsylvanians? Nancy Pelosi wanted his vote. She thinks we will put him back in office no matter what he does? Apparently so does the Congressman.
Unfortunately, Nancy Pelosi also helped Paul Kanjorski make up his mind on all the other pork bills, bailouts, and the infamous government takeover of healthcare. Remember, nobody could have read all this secret stuff. Only Paul Kanjorski knows whether he thinks he did the right thing for Pennsylvania. Quite frankly, I don't really care what he thinks about what he did. You should not care either. We were all sold out for some unknown reason so that the Congressman could please the Lady Speaker of the House from California. That's a fact!
I do not know what Nancy Pelosi offered Mr. Kanjorski for his vote on Obamacare and Cap and Trade and for his utmost loyalty to the hard left Speaker from San Francisco. But it had to be a good deal. It was a better deal than serving NEPA! I have no proof of that other than how he votes and how he responds to my constituent emails. He is very faithful in his return emails to make sure I have a response. However, the response is mostly what I would call, bull. The sheet of paper I use to print the response might just as well be blank for the worth of the content.
I have a feeling that I am more of a regular guy than our Congressman. Thus, he has not represented my interests or other regular people like me from Northeastern PA in Congress for some time. He is a good friend to those on the hard left as he does the Speakers' and the "new" President's bidding. Mr. Kanjorski knows that we do not like what he is doing this year, and so while representatives from other districts, even Arlen Specter, went out to meet the people, our representative chose not to face the music because apparently, the tunes were not his type of music. He has been hiding from open meetings with the people. Now at election time, he's back like nothing happened!
I think for most of the years that Mr. Kanjorski represented NEPA, he was a good man. Perhaps he still is. When I saw him falling in line, and hiding from his own constituency this past year so he did not have to deal with the tough questions, I thought he was in retirement mode. I never thought a man in that mode, who would not have a real "town hall" meeting with his constituents, would have the nerve to ask the people he was afraid to face to vote for him again.
I think Paul Kanjorski is a bright man and but perhaps for a few failings, he has served NEPA reasonably well. He is not perfect for sure, nor am I. But, I think he is less perfect now than he was when his career began. And that is the sin of too many terms.
Not willing to meet the folks as even Arlen Specter did, shows, because he is again running, that Mr. Kanjorski would like to continue the Washington good-life but he is not really prepared to represent his constituents, US.
Maybe I am wrong, but that is what I see.
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