A letter to the Editor about McClintock

Dear Blog Editor:
Congressman Tom McClintock left his Elk Grove home (he never moved in the district) to attend a couple of meetings with his constituents last week, none of which included El Dorado County people.  I guess he doesn't feel he needs our input. 

It's not like he has a tough work schedule.  He did the PEOPLE'S work six (6) days last month and is only scheduled for four (4) days this month.  He has two budget meetings this week, but nothing scheduled for his other committees for the rest of the month.  According to the House schedule, the House will be dismissed on the 17th of Feb. and not go back until 3 pm on Tuesday March 1st.

McClintock is paid a nice wage in this environment of "government mismanagement at its worst."  He got a $11,900 RAISE from last year's pay and is now being paid by the taxpayers $174,000 a year. 

But what is he doing for this pay?  The house is only in session from 10 am to 3 pm (Budget meeting has the same hours) Wednesday and Thursday.  At this rate, McClintock gets paid $172.80 an hour to do the people's business. On top of paying his salary, taxpayers pay his staff close to $100,000 a year, and EVERYONE in McClintock's office gets taxpayer-paid health insurance--minus a co-pay, something that he doesn't want for the rest of American citizens.  In addition to all this, McClintock does not pay for car or plane or gas...That's all covered by an expense account paid by the taxpayers.

Since Mr. McClintock does not feel the need to communicate with El Dorado County Residents (Letter, calls and emails continue to be unanswered) in his very tight schedule between Elk Grove and Washington DC, maybe the paper can ask this for me: Why are you talking about how my sisters and my mother have to take a cut in Social Security, something that they paid into with each and every pay check they earned?

When my paycheck went over the max, $109,000, it was like a raise -- my pay check for the rest of the year was LARGER.  After McClintock pays Social Security for the first $109,000, he pays nothing for the $65,000.   

Why Mr. McClintock are you asking that only the people who make less than $109,000 have to be FISCALLY responsible and take these cuts, but people like you who will be paid $864 a day for 6 days of work this month and pay nothing on the last $65,000 do not have to be fiscally responsible?

Dink Lane
Garden Valley

McClintock's voting record

Education Jobs and Medicaid Assistance Act – vote Passed (247-161, 25 not voting)

In Aug., the House passed this bill to provide $16.1 billion t extend increased Medicaid assistance to states and $10 billion in funding for states to create or retain teacher's jobs. 

Rep. Tom McClintock voted NO

The Senate added an amendment to the H.R. 1586 a bill to modernize the air traffic control and safety system and the House had to agree to the changed bill – Vote Passed (229-173, 30 not voting)

Rep. Tom McClintock voted NO

The Offshore Oil and Gas Worker Whistleblower Protection Act of 2010 – Vote Passed (315-93, 25 not voting)

Rep. Tom McClintock voted NO

McClintock fighting for Southern California

On January 25 of this year, Northern California District Four Congressional Rep Tom McClintock held a Town Hall Meeting in Bakersfield, hundreds of miles SOUTH of his district for the Kern County farmers.

McClintock's meeting was a separate meeting from the previously scheduled Los Angeles meeting held just 24 hours before.  The Los Angeles meeting included most of the California's federal and state legislators who have been working on California's Water issue for years.

Then just a week later, Feb. 4, back in Washington D.C., McClintock held a Water and Power Sub-committee meeting demanding that the "Tracy Pumps be turned back on."

What about the water issues in his own district? McClintock doesn't live down there any more. He moved up here after he was elected to our district. What about protecting the "Gold Country" water rights?

When El Dorado County and Placer County's water districts and agencies were asked what they thought about McClintock's actions, they were shocked.  They had no idea he was down there fighting to get more of the Delta water.

This is the link to McClintock's argument for the Kern County farmers to get more of the "Delta Water."

The Agony of the Central Valley