Rep. Gibson, your questions, and gearing up for 2012

I’ll be talking in-depth later this week with Rep. Chris Gibson (R-NY20) whose district stretches through the North Country, and I want to have some of your questions ready.

In this post-budget-battle, pre-2012 campaign season moment, what would you like to know from your congressman?  Put your questions into the comment section below and I’ll ask as many as I can.

Also, we’re beginning to gear up for our 2012 coverage, thinking about the races, the stories, and how the In Box should fit into that picture.  Any thoughts?  I know some of you have chafed at the “horse racey” quality of this blog in the past.

Any other thoughts, ideas, suggestions, criticisms?  Comments welcome below…

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  1. hermit thrush says:

    at last week’s republican presidential debate, one of the moderators asked the candidates who would accept a deficit reduction deal that was 10-1 spending cuts to tax increases. not a single person on the stage raised their hand. would you have raised yours?

  2. hermit thrush says:

    (sorry, the moderator asked who would refuse such a deal, and everyone on stage raised their hand. but you know what i mean.)

  3. Tony Goodwin says:

    I hope you press Congressman Gibson relentlessly on exactly what $1,400 billion in spending cuts he and other Republicans would make to balance the budget without raising taxes. And make sure they are expressed as ANNUAL cuts and not the “trillions in cuts” – but over ten years.

  4. knuckleheadedliberal says:

    Have you taken the Grover Norquist pledge? If so, given your career of service to our country in the military and now as congressman and the pledges you have sworn to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States, how do you square making such a narrow pledge at the behest of one person or organization with previous pledges to the nation? Will you renounce the Grover Norquist pledge?

  5. PNElba says:

    Are corporations people?

  6. It's Still All Bush's Fault says:

    Do you feel pressured to vote strictly along party lines or do you vote according to what is best for the constituents whom you represent?

    Why do feel that President Obama should only serve one term?

  7. Mervel says:

    How would you reduce our unemployment rate in the next 12 months?

  8. Dave says:

    Is signing a pledge that limits your options and obligates you to a hardline-no comprises approach to our problems a wise decision for a leader?

  9. Peter Hahn says:

    you could ask how he feels about compromise.

  10. Peter Hahn says:

    you could also ask what he is doing to bring home the bacon.

  11. knuckleheadedliberal says:

    Will you introduce a bill to end usury and limit credit card, or any other, interest rates to 15%?

  12. knuckleheadedliberal says:

    Will you introduce legislation to allow ordinary Americans to withdraw 401k money from Wall Street with no penalty?

  13. Peter Hahn says:

    I would like to know specifically which federally-funded job-creating local infrastructure projects (pork) he is championing for us.

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