Since Democrat Adam Schiff of California gained the limelight by uselessly investigating the president on the pretext of accusations that turned out to be wholly false, his stock has climbed with the usual suspects.
He’s now a regular guest on the Sunday DC political talk shows, he’s raising money hand over fist from the Hollywood ignorati, and even Babs Streisand has endorsed him for president.
And well, when a well known political genius like Babs wants you in the White House you know you’ve made it to the big time.
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However, there is one minor, rather forgettable really, bunch who haven’t gained a lot from Schiff’s newfound fame. Those would be the people he’s actually been elected to represent. They are hurting.
Crime and homelessness run rampant in his CA congressional district and he ignores it, preferring the ego stroke of DC media and Hollywood airheads.
A GOP challenger named Eric Early sees that Schiff is not up to the task of serving his constituents. Early wants to take his place.
“He’s spent too much time in Washington seeking the limelight,” Early, an L.A. lawyer, said of Schiff. “It’s time for a congressman to be here who actually cares about our district… It’s a mess out here, it’s terrible… He’s done nothing, or virtually nothing, for our district,” Early said. “Certainly not a darn thing for homelessness. We need somebody strong enough to fight and say we are going to forcibly move these people off the streets if they don’t come voluntarily,” Early told Fox News.
“That may not look quote-unquote compassionate but I believe it’s much more compassionate than leaving these folks out here to die.”
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Early is right. My experience running homeless shelters tells me you’re not doing the homeless any favors by letting them camp in the elements and become a nuisance to local business. They need to be housed, fed, and treated like adults in a program that does not make them further dependent, but that asks them to responsibly contribute to their own renewal.
But Adam Schiff doesn’t care one way or another because somewhere, someplace, he has a fashionable lunch to get to…while his district disintegrates.
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