Campaign Office of ReaganClinton

[Oakvale]

You'll have my vote.

[Oakvale]

I don't have much patience for grousing from my dear comrades here, frankly.

The reality is that the public elected a Federalist, you, to Congress. I understand that you have a personal issue preventing you from serving and feel angered that this was disrespected. But I think it's an obvious fact that most of the public who voted for you were unaware of this - and, even if we're to make the leap and assume that they were, they certainly had no idea that you would then ransom off the seat to another party.

Let's look at this a simple way - did the people elect you, ReaganClinton, or a Federalist candidate, to Congress? Well, it's both, of course. But the logic is watertight - if they elected you, under normal circumstances you would serve. At that point if you wanted to change parties or whatever it would be disreputable but one could argue it was ethically valid. If they elected A Federalist Candidate, then you, or someone of that party, would serve.

Since you cannot serve, the most information any voter could plausibly have is that you were a Federalist candidate who would not be serving in Congress if elected. They thus either: voted for you not knowing this, in which case they expected a Federalist to serve in Congress, or voted for you knowing this, in which case they expected a Federalist replacement to serve in Congress.

Selling the seat to Young Texan, Blair or the Communist candidate is undemocratic in the extreme.