{"id":5298,"date":"2009-08-24T06:57:21","date_gmt":"2009-08-24T11:57:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=5298"},"modified":"2020-12-21T05:33:57","modified_gmt":"2020-12-21T11:33:57","slug":"the-hottest-ticket-in-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=5298","title":{"rendered":"He Had A Golden Ticket"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fresch Fisch got an invite to Senator Klobuchar’s\u00a0 “Tele-Town Hall”:<\/a><\/p>\n

And it sure sounded <\/em>on the up-and-up:<\/p>\n

Dear :_____<\/em><\/p>\n

As someone who has previously contacted our office to share your thoughts on issues important to you, I would like to take this opportunity to invite you to participate in a live statewide healthcare tele-town hall meeting this Sunday, August 23 rd , at 7:00 PM…<\/em>Once you\u2019re registered, you\u2019ll get an automated reminder phone call on Friday evening and you\u2019ll be called again on Sunday to be joined to the call.\u00a0 The phone number you provide will be kept private.<\/em><\/p>\n

I look forward to hearing from you on Sunday.<\/em><\/p>\n

Sincerely,<\/em><\/p>\n

Amy Klobuchar
\nUnited States Senator <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’d have certainly taken that as an encouraging sign!<\/p>\n

As did Fisch!<\/p>\n

I was really pumped! Maybe all those calls to her Minnesota and Washington offices paid off! I even received my follow up call on Saturday. I was really looking forward to\u00a0Sunday night.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But we were both wrong:<\/p>\n

6:45, 6:50, 7:00, no call, maybe they are just busy, maybe it’s running late. Then at 7:15 I received my recorded message from Amy saying she “missed me”. How could she have “missed me”, I was home since 5 or so. She explained I could listen to a recording of her town hall on her website. If my call was as 7:15, was it over yet? I guess when no one is dissenting, things go pretty fast.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A fifteen minute town hall?\u00a0 For government work, that is pretty dang amazing!<\/p>\n

Seriously – I know there were a few conservatives out there who’d heard from A-Klo about these meetings.\u00a0 Did anyone actually get “the call?”<\/p>\n

Or did A-Klo’s office decide you were racist Nazis?<\/p>\n

Fisch:<\/p>\n

I guess maybe I didn’t call her\u00a0office enough I’ll start calling more.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I think that’s a fine plan.<\/p>\n

Maybe a bunch of us need to call on her.<\/p>\n

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