Azrich
Well-known member
As many of you are aware, my Congresswoman, Gabrielle Giffords, was shot this morning at a "Congressperson on a Corner" event in front of a Safeway grocery. The numbers keep changing, but as many as 19 people were also shot. Gabby Giffords is in critical condition after surgery, but we are hopeful she will survive. As many as 6 people have been killed, including a federal judge and a precious, 9 year girl, whose grandparent brought her to meet the Congresswoman.
I have known Gabby for over ten years since she was a state legislator in Phoenix. I wrote her often in regards to education issues and then she began to call me to ask my view, as a public school teacher, about bills in the state house and later senate. She said I had become one of her sources of information about what was happening in the schools. When she ran for U.S. Congress, my partner and I went to campaign events to support her. She always knew our names, even when we had not seen her for over a year. When we wrote her or called her office with our opinion, we often got a call or email back from Gabby.
Gabrielle has been a strong advocate for solar energy and renewable resources. Her office here held Solar 101 seminars where people could be educated about these issues. I attended one of these last summer and the EV Project was represented with its plan for charging stations. I had spoken to her Tucson aid about driving Representative Giffords to a Solar 101 event in my LEAF when it arrives. She is a very good person and has worked hard for southern Arizona.
Gabrielle was one of the Congress people that Sarah Palin targeted on her website for defeat by a Tea Party candidate. Palin included a map on her website with a crosshair target on Tucson, calling for Giffords defeat. It also included language such as "reload". During the campaign last fall, the windows of Congresswoman Giffords' Tucson office were shot out only minutes after her staff left at 10 pm. Now, this.
I drive pass the Safeway grocery and shopping center every day on the way to work. It is about ten miles away. I am very sadden today for what this will mean for our elected representatives. Many, like Gabby, are constantly out and about with the public to talk and get a feel for how people are feeling about issues. What will happen now?
A sad day. Thanks for listening.
I have known Gabby for over ten years since she was a state legislator in Phoenix. I wrote her often in regards to education issues and then she began to call me to ask my view, as a public school teacher, about bills in the state house and later senate. She said I had become one of her sources of information about what was happening in the schools. When she ran for U.S. Congress, my partner and I went to campaign events to support her. She always knew our names, even when we had not seen her for over a year. When we wrote her or called her office with our opinion, we often got a call or email back from Gabby.
Gabrielle has been a strong advocate for solar energy and renewable resources. Her office here held Solar 101 seminars where people could be educated about these issues. I attended one of these last summer and the EV Project was represented with its plan for charging stations. I had spoken to her Tucson aid about driving Representative Giffords to a Solar 101 event in my LEAF when it arrives. She is a very good person and has worked hard for southern Arizona.
Gabrielle was one of the Congress people that Sarah Palin targeted on her website for defeat by a Tea Party candidate. Palin included a map on her website with a crosshair target on Tucson, calling for Giffords defeat. It also included language such as "reload". During the campaign last fall, the windows of Congresswoman Giffords' Tucson office were shot out only minutes after her staff left at 10 pm. Now, this.
I drive pass the Safeway grocery and shopping center every day on the way to work. It is about ten miles away. I am very sadden today for what this will mean for our elected representatives. Many, like Gabby, are constantly out and about with the public to talk and get a feel for how people are feeling about issues. What will happen now?
A sad day. Thanks for listening.