RussP
Regular Member
Perhaps more people in general should ask those in power for help solving problems.I can assure everyone here that this is not the first time nor will it be the last time that a person in power pulled strings to help a friend out. The only people that complain about it are the ones with no friends in power. If anyone here feels this isn't fair, maybe they should try to acquire different friends in more prominent positions.
What makes the headlines? Stories about the power brokers, the influence peddlers, the special interest groups, corporate influence, financial contributions traded for special consideration make the headlines. Then there are the stories about members of Congress bringing Federal funding into their states for various projects. For some the projects equal jobs and improvements. Others see pork barrel spending. Guess it depends on whether you are the beneficiary of the spending.
Here Pastor Duncan's wife, Carolyn, calls a leader in their church who calls a friend who calls a member of Congress who mobilizes his staff on a Sunday who calls a former NRA attorney who goes into court and gets Pastor Duncan out of jail, gets the charges dismissed and may get his guns back and his record expunged, and that equates to an abuse of power.
A Congressman intervenes on behalf of a constituent when there's a clear infringement on that citizen's 2nd Amendment Rights by a government entity who flaunts its disregard for those Rights, and that's bad.
Like I said, more people need to involve those with the authority to change bad situations, bad laws more often. It needs to be before an incident like Pastor Duncan's, too.