[Sca-cooks] OT collecting disability
ysabeau
ysabeau at mail.ev1.net
Thu Aug 3 10:42:21 PDT 2006
I've discovered that a good Senator or Congress person can get
just about any red tape cleared away. Being from Texas, I've used
Kay Bailey Hutchison a few times. She is extremely responsive and
very much into the rights and situations of soldiers and their
families. I call her in when I need the big dogs to fight it out
and she's won every time...I even had a colonel call me in to
apologize and backpeddle over the fact that I hadn't been paid
while working for DoDDS for six months. Unfortunately, my case was
only one case and there were hundreds of others that still had to
wait months to get paid. He asked me to please contact Senator
Hutchison and let her know that everything had been cleared up
(basically call her off) and told me to please contact him
personally if I ever had any other issues!
Full disclosure - I've only called on her twice but each time it
worked wonders and was very fast! She had everything cleared up
before my other representatives even responded with a "I'll look
into it" letter. If she ever decides to run for president, I'll be
on her campaign. She is about as non-partisan as you can get and
still be a Republican...she has stood up to George Bush and
croneys on numerous occasions, even when he was governor.
Ysabeau
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From: ekoogler1 at comcast.net
Reply-To: Cooks within the SCA <sca-cooks at lists.ansteorra.org>
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2006 17:30:57 +0000
>
> -------------- Original message ----------------------
>From: "Daniel Phelps" <phelpsd at gate.net>
>> All I can do is suggest what my father did. He is a disabled
war vet whose
>> disabilities started with frost bite in the Korean War and were
capped by a
>> Purple Heart from his second tour in Nam. He turned up the
heat until it
>> burned the hair off their collective toes. He worked with the
DAV. He
>> started writing his elected representatives. Pester such with
E-mails,
>> letters and if you can arrange it personal visits. Get them
involved.
>> Nothing like a Congressional inquiry to focus attention on a
problem. It is
>> after all one of reasons they were elected and have such big
staffs right?
>> Keep records of what has happened in a file along with what you
wrote to
>> whom. Copy such to them and keep a record of that as well. If
they don't
>> help, find out who is going to run against them and talk to
them. Be a
>> gadfly that can't be swatted and will not go away. Know how
the game is
>> played and play hard ball.
>>
>> Daniel
>>
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>Yes, on a completely different issue (getting money for classes
that would help me find a job...money that had been allocated by a
Federal agency, but was being administered by a MD employee who
regarded it as her own private fiefdom), after many attempts to
budge the woman off of the funds, I contacted my Congressman, told
him of the situation (actually one of his aids), and had the money
within 48 hours!!! Amazing what a little political pressure can
accomplish!
>
>Kiri
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