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January 31, 2013
Rep. Doug Collins -- Off to a Very Bad Start!
By Eugene Elander
Judging from his early vote in favor of a failed amendment to require vital Hurricane aid to be offset by cuts in discretionary federal spending, newly-elected U.S. Repesentative Doug Collins from Georgia's Ninth District is off to a very bad start in the United States Congress. The fact that his office is making widespread robo-calls blasting President Obama is not helping, either.
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Newly-elected Republican Congressman Doug Collins, from the Ninth District of Georgia, is off to a very bad start. Shortly after he took office in early January, 2013, we were among many other residents of his district who received robo-calls made directly from his Gainesville, GA office, whose phone number came up on our phone system. Because most of what I heard on this call was aimed at demeaning President Barack Obama, I did not listen to the entire call. However, I heard enough to consider this call from a federal official to be an abuse of power, regardless of whether or not it is within those broad legal limits which Congress has set for its own conduct.Author's Biography
Eugene Elander has been a progressive social and political activist for decades. As an author, he won the Young Poets Award at 16 from the Dayton Poets Guild for his poem, The Vision. He was chosen Poet Laureate of Pownal, Vermont for his poem Pownal People. His three new verses for America the Beautiful:September 11, 2001 were widely acclaimed and read into the Congressional Record by U.S. Senator Chris Dodd.
Dr. Elander has authored four volumes of poetry: The Right Click, The World Click, Journeyings, and Philosophy over Fika, all written from 2004 to now, in the U.S. and Sweden -- as well as two published novels: The Goat of God, and Turning the Tides, both available via Signalman Publishing on Amazon.com in Kindle and electronic pdf editions. A self-help book titled Empowerment:Taking Charge of your Life was recently completed and is available via Amazon.com KDP (Kindle Direct Publishing.
Dr. Elander is a freelance columnist who published a newspaper for ten years in New London, CT. He is an economist and college lecturer, and has been an agency executive director, emergency management consultant, investigator; and former animal control officer, deputy code enforcement and health officer for Farmington, New Hampshire. He and his wife Birgit, who co-authored The World Click, divide their time between Georgia and her homeland, Gotland, Sweden.
Several other books are underway, including a sequel to The Goat of God, and a public version of his doctoral dissertation on Cooperatism, a new economic system he developed which includes all stakeholders (workers, consumers, and the public as well as stockholders) in crucial decision making. Dr. Elander has been a member of the Stonepile Writers group in Georgia and the Poetry Society of New Hampshire. He is president of his own Elander Press.