McClintock announces his dream team
Communication with voters will be a leading priority
Newly elected 4th District Congressman Tom McClintock, who is being sworn in today at the Capitol in Washington, D.C., is looking forward to committee appointments and has put together his team for the coming term. The selection process for congressional committee assignments starts tomorrow, McClintock said, and he has requested Natural Resources, Transportation and Infrastructure, and Budget. “I was asked to serve on the Judiciary Committee, which involves immigration policy among other things,” he said Monday. “I have indicated I have no objection to that assignment either.” McClintock said he plans to maintain frequent dialogue with his constituency. “I intend to give very high priority to a series of town hall meetings both by telephone as well as in person to have extensive discussions with local officials and with voters over the coming months,” he said. “I’m particularly intrigued with new technology that allows conference calls among constituents and I have budgeted to make extensive use of that technology as well over the next year.” Staff selection includes Chief of Staff Igor Birman, 27, who has a law degree from Emory University, where he chaired the Federalist Society, according to a press release issued by McClintock’s office Monday. Birman is a member of the State Bar of California as well as being an instrument-rated pilot. His articles and op-ed pieces have been published around the country and he has provided guest commentary to local talk radio, as well as NPR, Fox News, C-SPAN and other national outlets. He was born in the Soviet Union and fled with his family at the age of 12. He is fluent in three languages. He’ll serve as the chief policy adviser to McClintock and manage the operations of the congressional office. Birman attended undergraduate school at University of California, Davis and has resided in Sacramento. Longtime legislative staffer Dan Brennan, from Sloughhouse, has been named district director. Brennan’s experience includes 12 years in senior positions working for California legislators. He will manage all staff activities and constituent services in the district. He and his wife Allison have five children. Communications Director Jennifer Cressy has worked for McClintock for the past 12 years. She will manage press and communications strategy from Washington. She has a bachelor of arts degree in journalism with a minor in political science from California State University, Long Beach. Press Secretary Bill George has more than 20 years’ experience in journalism, marketing and public affairs including service as the assistant secretary of the California Trade & Commerce Agency. He will be responsible for fulfilling the district communications objectives. He lives with his family in Granite Bay and has a degree in journalism from the University of Missouri. Norman Gonzales, community outreach director, has many years of state and federal legislative experience including three years working in Congress. He is a graduate of California State University Sacramento and a former chairman and current member of the Site Based Leadership Team at Twelve Bridges Middle School in Lincoln. McClintock’s swearing-in ceremony is at noon eastern time. His district office, at 4230 Douglas Boulevard, Suite 200, in Granite Bay, will be open and constituents are welcome to visit and meet the staff, George said in the press release.
|
Change Location:
|
Best Wishes Congressman McClintock - We appreciate your commitment!
Yeah good luck with your efforts to gridlock the process. Tom took it to heart when Nancy Reagan told him, "just say no". He will contribute little to solve the problems facing America. In fact he is one of the problems facing America.
Congressman McClintock may be a lone voice in the wilderness of Washington but he is right.
No need to measure drapes for his new windowless, basement office. Because McClintock is a reactionary member of a demoralized minority party we can expect little to no benefit to flow to CA-04 from his partisan obstruction work in Congress.
The proof will be in the ACCOMPLISHMENTS, not the rhetoric. Tom has so far resisted saying anything specific about what he intends to do in Congress and how he will do it. The "how" is the important part given his status as a freshman, reactionary member of a demoralized minority party.
As far as the outreach is concerned let's wait and see before offering congratulations on his "commitment". Nothing in his past indicates he will take constituent concerns to heart if he doesn't already agree with them yet 49.8% of his constituents voted against him.
ChuxxR said it all. The die hard republican is not for the working class and all he will do is try to gridlock every tning. He has that thin selfish mouth like Bush. Of course Placer county is and always will be Reupublican.
I can't belive how filled with hate some of you are.
Tom,
When are you going to hire legislative and district staff? You know, the people who actually will carry out the work of your constituents. Also, why the need for two staff to handle communications/press?
well, the postings from the left seem to bear out why I have been in favor of hindering 0bama at every step, as the democrats and democrat-media did to Bush his two terms.
It is in America's long-term best interests to see 0bama fail, even though it will make things worse in the short-term, so we can get back to working together instead of apart with nasty attacks on one another ( mainly from democrats unto republicans ).
America is entering a depression and we need to keep digging until we've run out of dirt to shovel. Then maybe we can cooperate again and make this a better place.
Again, to the left: congratulations ! you caused the mess and you shall reap the rewards
the Great Depression of the 21st Century
To Congressman McClintock: please bring Washington to a standstill as quick as possible. The sooner this comes to a head and pops, the better.
common_sense wrote: "To Congressman McClintock: please bring Washington to a standstill as quick as possible. The sooner this comes to a head and pops, the better."
McClintock will be about as potent as a neutered dog.
I can't believe how he campaigned, and then his supporters, whom have defined the word "love" as a warped thing, forcing a person to convert to a religious belief against their will, or follow its tenets in spite of not being that religion, actually call the most patient and verbally abused people in the state "haters."
If you don't like the facts, tough.
Fact: The final vote tally was just a half a percentage point separating the two candidates.
Fact: Most of the individual donors who gave money to McClintock were made from people OUTSIDE the district, per the FEC records.
Fact: His predecessor took bribes from disgraced felon Jack Abramoff. He used the same disgusting and vile swiftboating ads, to be used against a career military veteran with a son who has served multiple tours in Iraq, from his predecessor Doolittle's campaign for his own use and debuted them in Sacramento while running off to the Elks Lodge up here in Auburn the same day. He has no class. And it's clear that he hates veterans, when it comes to voting for things that would benefit their well- being, and has no respect for the people who actually put their lives on the line daily. This is unfortunate, but it is what it is.
Fact: He embraced the racist Minutemen border vigilantes, an astroturf front group of Republican operatives with a history of scamming little old ladies on the internet with solicitations to protect them from the "illeegals."
Fact: If not for Proposition 8, which has nothing to do with anything he's going to be doing in Washington DC, he would have lost.
Fact: he doesn't live in the district, and refused to give up using his mother's address in Thousand Oaks in Southern Ca during the campaign because then he wouldn't get his state of CA, tax- free legislative per diem.
Fact: He lied repeatedly about water issues during the campaign, which is the biggest issue I think the constituents should be wary of, and they should demand that he stop doing it, and if he does not stop it, he should be removed from office as quickly as possible, and hopefully he loses a primary challenge during the next campaign cycle IF he runs here again, or the main election to whomever the other candidate is. Either he does believe some of the things he said, which means he's just incompetent, or he doesn't believe what he said, but does it anyway, which means he's just a manipulative shill looking for a place to take a government salary until the next oportunity comes up, which should be in 2010.
Fact: I realize what I just typed was a rather extraordinary charge, but I am completely serious. We cannot have a federal government representative for this district who is so absolutely bent on sending the water that the district depends on for its livelihood out of the district to the highest bidder. I have listened to McClintock many times insist that the local rivers contain enough water to serve "x" millions number of more people, but for environmental regulations and but for "luddites" not wanting to construct a dam (that would be over an earthquake fault ) .... he either needs to stop doing this, or get out of office because he's supposed to represent this district and not Southern California.
Fact: Under his predecessor, the district experienced massive amounts of growth, overbuilding, and suburban sprawl which has caused problems with air quality and traffic. His predecessor pretty much rubber- stamped every thing that President Bush wanted, but that was to be expected because they were the same party. Now many areas of the district are having financial problems. Fact: your new congressional representative campaigned repeatedly on letting the "free market" fix everything, and on tax cuts for the wealthy. That's it. He doesn't have any more cards to play. He has a pair of 2's. He also has a history of condoning and abetting the Republicans making misery by pushing recalls and ballot initiatives. He was sent to DC by the people who voted for him to prevent the opposite party from doing anything.
That's unfortunate, but it is, what it is.
This isn't "hate." You have to be a person who loves the place where they live very much to be willing to put up with this as being one's so- called "official" voice in Washington. There is the potential for all sorts of new and exciting things to be happening in our country over the next few years, and instead we are likely going to get stuck with the same old, same old. If we weren't actually living here, it would be entertaining to watch.
Dan Brennan, the new District 04 director:
"Dan Brennan provides a provocative path to rethinking our sexuality and cross-gender friendships. It may be that sex scandals and broken marriages among Christians is the result of a famine in cross-gender friendships. With sensitivity and insight Brennan explores an often uncomfortable topic and what might be the Achilles' heel of Christian relationships. A must read for people seeking to build authentic Christian community."
[http://danbrennan.typepad.com/my_weblog/2008/12/lilian-calles-bargers-endorsement.html]
Well. Imagine that.
Wrong Brennan, Skep. That one's married to Sheila. This one is married to an Allison.
"It is in America's long-term best interests to see 0bama fail, even though it will make things worse in the short-term, so we can get back to working together instead of apart with nasty attacks on one another ( mainly from democrats unto republicans )."
Because Obama is all about pointing the finger(like you're doing right now, hypocrite) and preventing anything from getting done. Right?
"Again, to the left: congratulations ! you caused the mess and you shall reap the rewards"
Because the whole country has been in a tailspin for the past 8 years, all of which the dems were in control of. Right?
Ya gotta love that deer-in-the-headlights look. Indicative of what's to come for the next 2 years.
Steelybob,
I don't think it's a deer-in-the-headlights look. He looks fanatical. It's the intense stare of a True Believer.
Miuwtant, you're right--he looks like a devoted cult member.
Well this is what's great about this country...the nation votes for someone a lot of us do now want in the White House and a haiir over/under a half vote for or against a representatve we want or don't want! Well folks, we all just gotta DEAL WITH IT and move on and instead of complaining all the time, how about helping with OFFERIING SOLUTIONS and who tives a rat's patoot as to who gets the credit as long as our unemplloyed can get back to work to feed their families and have roofs over their heads. Enough with the potshots already!
BTW, I voted for neither! Yeah, my candidates got their heads handed to them, but at least I voted!
Sorry for the typos above...didn't have my glasses on!!!
RiverRat, who cares about the typos. You post was right on. We better band together to get out of this mess.
Have a great day
Amen.
RiverRat66: I agree McClintock won the election--I voted for Brown--the rub, however comes when McClintock supporters try to incorrectly make it out to be a mandate when it barely could have been closer, less than half a percent--and are forever making up phony excuses for why it was so close instead of just admitting mathematical fact that half the district didn't want McClintock elected.
Portraying the win as something that it's not is irritating & disingenuous--especially when they (again incorrectly) try to convince people that Obama's 7% margin victory is somehow unsubstantial. It's been 12 years since a President has won with such a margin.
ChuxxSuxR, Mutant, Steelybore, CanyonCrap
Look who is calling the kettle black. As I recall, all of you were slobbering cheerleaders for Obama. Lets not forget that Obama has no record of any significant accomplishments while in office. Worse, Obama didn't have the guts to give a yes/no vote half the time. Too afraid to be pinned down. Typical hypocrisy of the left.
richthink: We're not hypocritical. Obama had a decisive win; obviously the country wasn't as ambivilent about handing Obama his victory as was District 4 voters grudgingly barely electing McClintock.