Just got a letter back from a Senator on user fees

Brantel · #1 09-07-2007, 06:02 AM

Just got a letter back from Senator John McCain...

Not so good! He basically told me that my opinion did not matter and that he supported user fees because everyone should pay their fair share of the funding/modernization effort.

He totally disregarded the fact that we currently pay our fair share by fuel taxes.

Write your government officials today!

Fearless · #2 09-07-2007, 06:24 AM

Well I guess you can vote against him in the Primaries.

Bob Brown · #3 09-07-2007, 07:27 AM

That is pretty much the same response I got back from Senator Wyden here in Oregon...but I'm going to write him back because his position letter to me did not address ONE of the points I raised in my first letter. I'm also going to phone his office and leave voice mails and talk with his minions, both here at his Oregon offices and in his DC offices.

You'd think with all the homegrown GA activity in the NW (Van's, AFS, Dynon, CAD, Glastar, Evergreen Aviation, Columbia, Microsoft, etc), he'd be more interested in doing the right thing.

And I'll make it my job to try to make sure he at least acknowleges the importance of GA to his constituents...even if he's in the pockets of the airlines.

Brantel · #4 09-07-2007, 08:06 AM

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Originally Posted by Fearless

Well I guess you can vote against him in the Primaries.

I can't.... He is not my Senator. He was on the subcommitte that passed this garbage and now it is up to the full Senate to vote on. I wrote him anyway back when this thing was up for vote by the subcommittee.

Write your Senators and let them know that this thing should not pass!

gmcjetpilot · #5 09-07-2007, 08:11 AM

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Originally Posted by Fearless

Well I guess you can vote against him in the Primaries.

That is not going to be an issue, he's down in the polls with little chance of getting the party's nomination. I like McCain as a person, but when he said airline pilots are lazy many years ago he was on my list. 18 hour duty day, 6 to 12 hour time zone changes, ++200 days on the road per year and after a 4 day trip beat to heck, dead on your first day off; yea we really don't work.

aviationgeek84 · #6 09-07-2007, 08:27 AM

I don't think anyone needs to worry too much about McCain winning the nomination... I'd be surprised. :P And scared if that is his view of GA.

Ron Lee · #7 09-07-2007, 08:30 AM

Also appears to be anti-GA. Personally, just one year I wish Americans would throw out every single US Congressdude/Senator up for election.

N941WR · #8 09-07-2007, 08:31 AM

This time around there isn't a presidential candidate that I would vote for from either party.

I sure wish there was a real option in terms of a legitimate 3rd party. Who knows, if the Republicans and Democrats keep going the way they are, that wish might just be granted.

briand · #9 09-07-2007, 09:42 AM

[quote=Brantel]I can't.... He is not my Senator.
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I think Fearless meant the presidential primaries. He won't get my vote btw and not only because of this.

Hes much too powerful of a senator. Arizonians will never vote him out.

Dgamble · #10 09-07-2007, 11:26 AM

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Originally Posted by Ron Lee

Also appears to be anti-GA. Personally, just one year I wish Americans would throw out every single US Congressdude/Senator up for election.

He's not particularly strong on the 1st Amendment either, which has been a constant irritation to me.

Back on topic, though, was it his position that we should have user fees, or was he advocating an increase on the fuel tax, a position he would share with our freinds at AOPA?

Updated: Oops, after re-reading the thread I see that the letter was specifically about user fees.