• February 14, 2012

constituent services

TEABAGGER POETRY

Minnesota State Legislator Email Compares Unions With Hitler, Castro

by Kirsten Boyd Johnson

4:33 pm June 14, 2011

Taking the peg up a notch in Scott-Walker-style ire toward constituents, Minnesota State Rep. Tom Hackbarth (R-Cedar) did not like an email he got from a unionized constituent asking him not to vote for massive budget cuts that would affect Minnesota families. So he dashed off a reply letter containing an illiterate revisionist history lesson [...]

SNITS

Legislative Aide Loses Mind Over Marriage Bill

by Sara K. Smith

12:41 pm February 20, 2009

Quite possibly the only job worse than mopping the floors in a rendering plant is working in constituent services. So many gross citizens calling angrily all the time, and writing dumb emails, demanding this thing or that thing and generally wasting the time of staffers who could actually be doing something productive if they didn’t [...]