Mary Miller (R, IL-15) opposes mental-health screenings for schoolkids: she believes in opt-in rather than opt-out. She opposes red-flag laws too.
I called one of her two local offices yesterday, and as is always the case when I begin talking to one of her aides, I got wound up. I pointed out that the shooter in Minneapolis was already known in seventh grade for talking about school shootings and praising Adolf Hitler. Perhaps, and it’s only a perhaps, a mental-health screening might have identified him as a young person with profound problems. And perhaps, and it’s only a perhaps, the young people who were killed in Minneapolis on Wednesday might be living today.
The person on the other end was speechless, literally. So I added that even genuinely conservative Republican voters in her district find many of her positions appalling (it’s true) and asked if there were any town halls planned (of course not), and he promised to pass my comments on.
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Thanks for trying.
Who knows what ripple effect you might have.
I sometimes wonder what might happen if her office were to get, say, just 1,000 calls a day. Who’d want to work for her? How could anyone who’s not an angry voter get through? (Her district has almost 750,000 people.)
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