Dear Representative Howard,

First of all you are probably wondering why I chose the title for this post? Simple. Being politically expedient means something someone does to advance themselves politically.

That madam, sadly, appears to be you to a “T”.

You fooled a lot of us and rode the D train to election in November, 2018. What’s that song by The Who ? Won’t get fooled again?

It’s oddly, somehow, appropriate.

Here are the lyrics:

We’ll be fighting in the streets

With our children at our feet

And the morals that they worship will be gone

And the men who spurred us on

Sit in judgement of all wrong

They decide and the shotgun sings the song

 

I’ll tip my hat to the new constitution

Take a bow for the new revolution

Smile and grin at the change all around

Pick up my guitar and play

Just like yesterday

Then I’ll get on my knees and pray

We don’t get fooled again

 

The change, it had to come

We knew it all along

We were liberated from the fold, that’s all

And the world looks just the same

And history ain’t changed

‘Cause the banners, they are flown in the next war

 

I’ll tip my hat to the new constitution

Take a bow for the new revolution

Smile and grin at the change all around

Pick up my guitar and play

Just like yesterday

Then I’ll get on my knees and pray

We don’t get fooled again, no, no

 

I’ll move myself and my family aside

If we happen to be left half alive

I’ll get all my papers and smile at the sky

Though I know that the hypnotized never lie

Do ya?

 

Yeaah!

 

There’s nothing in the streets

Looks any different to me

And the slogans are replaced, by-the-bye

And the parting on the left

Is now parting on the right

And the beards have all grown longer overnight

 

I’ll tip my hat to the new constitution

Take a bow for the new revolution

Smile and grin at the change all around

Pick up my guitar and play

Just like yesterday

Then I’ll get on my knees and pray

We don’t get fooled again

Don’t get fooled again, no no

 

Yeaaah!

Meet the new boss

Same as the old boss

You are essentially invisible to your constituents. You are visible when hanging out with Governor Wolf who doesn’t care about us in Chester County and for parking lot photo ops.

Those damn pipelines will never be safe. And they are destroying where we call home, where you call home so how can you ignore your constituents?

You were…. politically expedient in August.

Today, once again you were politically expedient.

Your constituents have been coming to you for quite a while now begging you to take an interest in the pipelines. But you don’t respond to your constituents do you? No but today you take the time for tours and probably a photo op with West Whiteland and well….Sunoco/Energy Transfer?

I could call your office and leave you a message about how distressed I am to hear this latest news but why bother? You don’t really care about me or what I think or anything any of your constituents think or feel. If you cared about your constituents then you would not have ignored the pleas to meet with some of your incredibly well-informed and directly pipeline-impacted constituents.

When we asked you to get involved in East Whiteland and attend a public meeting at Immaculata about the proposal regarding the potential use of a traffic circle at King and 352 you didn’t come yourself, you sent someone who didn’t even stay the entire meeting. If a traffic circle is chosen it means eminent domain. We still don’t know as residents where we stand with PennDOT. And you didn’t go to the meeting so you really couldn’t judge for yourself how your constituents felt who were personally impacted in this scenario.

You were not elected by the people to be one of the handmaidens of Tom Wolf. You were elected to serve your constituents. And all we have seen since you got elected is you being politically expedient when you surface at all.

So Representative Howard I have to ask are you of the people or against the people? Because if you continue to be politically expedient it seems you are against the people doesn’t it?

According to article 2 section 1 of the Pennsylvania Constitution you have a two-year term. How do you want to mark your place in Pennsylvania political history?

Representative Howard, we aren’t really that stupid or ill-informed. Your constituents are NOT happy. You are almost at the halfway point of your term. Again I ask, how do you wish to mark your place in Pennsylvania political history? Because right now you are only going to be remembered for being invisible to your constituents and for being politically expedient. That’s not a good look for any politician.

It’s time to choose. Your constituents would prefer you chose people over pipelines, constituents over being one of Wolf’s handmaidens.

Republican, Democrat, or Independent as residents we are resolute in our desire for good government and fair representation….and we need the people who represent us to stand with us in our everyday realities, not against us.