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Brian Bilbray Apologizes to Mira Mesa

Were this reporter and I at the same meeting? Congressman Bilbray did, indeed, apologize for the gross bureaucratic sloth and gross indifference to which the people of Mira Mesa were subjected by federal officials as well as the inept use of false science as an excuse to block a vital school project. But the comment regarding an unanswered question pertained to only a single question which the Congressman proceeded to answer forthwith and not to the totality of the questions that had been asked as the reporter implies. Also, while the report of the question is correct: “Why do you and others vote for bills you haven’t read”—that leaves the reader with the impression that the Congressman voted for the 2,700-page Health Care Bill when, in fact, he voted against it. Perhaps a better question would have been, “Why are you asked to vote on bills so voluminous that you cannot possibly have read them when they come to a vote”. That is actually the question that the Congressman answered.
— June 5, 2012 5:34 p.m.