GEORGE HOLDING (R-13th DIST.) NORTH CAROLINA

I wrote to Rep. Holding from my district, the 13^th District North Carolina complaining about his representation of our district in Washington. Weeks later, I received the response I asked for by letter, which came via franked mail, meaning as a taxpayer, I paid the postage. George Holding, an ex U.S. Attorney, was elected to the House of Representative in 2012 as an extreme conservative; therefore, I expect he would represent his district from the conservative view point. However, in keeping with Republican philosophy of win at all costs, I did not expect him to be fair; regardless, I expected him to be honest. What provoked this blog post was the nature of his response to my complaints.

He wrote in legalese: “Like you, I am deeply concerned by the apparent abuses of government power that have recently come to light. Both the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) improper targeting of conservative-leaning no-profit groups and the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) excessive collection of reporters’ private phone records are outrageous violations of the agencies standards.”  

He knows and I know that Mr. Darryl Issa, Government oversight committee found that there was no targeting of conservative groups nor was there anything wrong with the way the IRS conducted their business. He also knows that conservatives have underfunded that agency by thousands of employees making it almost impossible for them to do their job. He is intentionally disseminating misinformation. He also knows that congress, that his he as a U.S. Representative, should fix the error that allows nefarious political organizations to claim they are not “exclusively” for social welfare or for education and still receive tax exempt status; strike the word ‘primarily’ from the law and leave the word ‘exclusively’ in the law IRS follows to do their job.

As a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and the Judiciary Committee, he should know our elected representative as the government has every right to have secrets and know the damage leaking these secrets can cause. As an attorney, he should know that the object of the what he refers to as “excessive collection of reporters’ private phone records” was to collect meta information (number of calls made and received  and from what numbers), which is legal and not the illegal listening to private conversations as he cleverly implies but does not say. The leaker or leakers of the information were the target of these efforts and not the reporters, again as he implies.

Holding’s responses are intentionally disingenuous and meant to damage the executive branch of government, which is President Obama. Once, I realized he had been an aide to the late Senator Jesse Helms, an overt racist; I have to question Holdings motives as being beyond normal conservative-liberal politics. The use of franking privileges to send his response to me, which reads like a boilerplate letter, suggests civil malfeasance if not outright criminal malfeasance.

The bottom line is simple; this person does not represent me.

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