Bending Over and Taking It

After spotting tea baggers in tiny Chester County, PA, I fired up the following letter to the asshole state reps of my nearby county earlier today and received a lovely response:

My Letter:

Representative Barrar,

> Hello, my name is Adorable Girlfriend and I am a resident of XXX
> in your district. I urge you to pass a fair and working budget
> now. Here's how you can do this: remove the tax on arts and
> culture, as it hurts small nonprofit organizations and decreases
> affordability of performances and programs; keep the agreed
> expenditure plan intact; replace the revenue stream with the many
> options out there; and let us all get back to work.
>
> Thank you for your attention to this issue.

Respectfully,

Dr. AG


Representative's Response:

AG:
no one in this Commonwealth wants a budget done more than I
do.We have been here most of the summer trying to get this done. I
don't intend to vote for the current budget deal between the House
> Democrats and the Republican Senate because it spends more than the
> state can afford and raises taxes higher than a. lot of our
> citizens can afford to pay. Even the governor condemned the House
> Democrats for passing this tax plan because it violates the current
> budget agreement.
>
> I am some what surprised that you oppose a samll sales tax on
> theater tickets when we give the arts millions of dollars every
> year to help promote the arts. The taxpayers gave hundreds of
> millions to build places like the Kimmel Center and the Convention
> center.
>
> The tax increases that were passed by the Democrat majority on
> Friday will hurt the small business and tax them at a greater rate
> at a time when we are looking at these businesses to create job and
> lead us out of this recession.
>
> Stephen E. Barrar PA House of Representatives 160th Legislative
> District

(Totally unedited.)

While I am firing up a response, check this out.