Congressman Steve Cohen and Field Coordinator Terry Griffin
Our business brought us to Washington D.C. to collaborate Election Day efforts with partner organizations, and to also promote our mission to ourselves. Monday and Tuesday proved to be very busy days on Capitol Hill, as Wall Street and banking interests, market accountability advocates, congressmen, and Treasury Department officials gathered to prod questions about this century’s Great Depression.
D.C. provided certain lessons and revelations. For one, it truly is where the big levers of our nation (and in many ways, our world) are pulled. But those congressmen, staffers, police, White House officials, and D.C. itself are nothing but people, like the rest of us, albeit with a little more pomp and polish than is evidently deserved. However, there are a few good ones who do care about the fallout and consequences of the decisions made in America’s Rome, not because they will personally loose out, but because their country at large is losing out. There are individual congressmen, organizers, directors, lawyers, and staffers who do devote themselves to pointing out corrupt and unprincipled practices at the public’s expense. They are doing what we need them to do.
But they can not do it alone. They do it to help us inform ourselves so that we can take action in a stronger and sounder capacity. All eyes are on D.C. and our representatives’ practices. Going to D.C. this week better helped us Young Voters understand that if our nation’s culture is lead around by the wrong motivations, and not held to account for upholding our best interests, then we have no choice but to correct the decisions of our elected officials, and do a hell of a lot better when it is time to decide who will be pulling the levers.
Sincerely,
Terry Griffin
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