Interesting letter in the mail today, from my MP - Tom Kmiec. He wrote about Energy East, and a motion in the House of Commons that was voted down on February 1 that would have simply expressed support for the Energy East Project. The entire letter was written to target Kent Hehr for
promising to "pound the table on the need for pipelines" and then failing to follow through as Hehr voted against the motion.
It was an interesting letter because of numerous factors. The first being that he is right. Hehr put his party above his constituents' needs. But interestingly, Kmiec doesn't use it to bang the PC vs. Liberal drum - he doesn't even identify the party affiliations at all in his letter, except where it was noted in a screen shot of the vote itself - to request donations or to misrepresent the issue. All he asked was that the public remind their members that they represent their constituents. And he did so in a rather respectful fashion.