SAN ANGELO, Texas (Concho Valley Homepage) — West Texas Indivisible recently held a walkout and left letters taped to the windows of Rep. August Pfluger office calling on the representative to pursue release the Epstein files in totality, vote no on any appropriation bill for the Department of Homeland Security that fails to “rein in ICE,” take back Congressional power and honor his oath to the U.S. Constitution.
This protest happened on Jan. 20 at the front of Pfluger’s office. A live stream of the event can be found on West Texas Indivisible’s page.
CVHP reached out to Pfluger’s office for a statement about this event. The Congressman’s spokesperson said this quote down below:
“Every week our office receives hundreds of correspondences from constituents, and we look forward to carefully reviewing their thoughts on issues of the day and getting back to them.”
CVHP reached out to West Texas Indivisible to find out why they held this walk out and left letters tapped to Pfluger’s office.
West Texas Indivisible included two letters that they had participants sign:
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The local organization asked us to publish this statement in the entirety:
“Contacting our lawmakers, like Representative Pfluger, is a direct way to participate in our civic processes.
West Texas Indivisible’s primary pilar is advocating for citizen-to-representative correspondence at all levels of government, from City Council to the President of the United States.
The power granted to the citizens by the Constitution, and through the representative government established therein, is the foundation of our what “MAKES AMERICA GREAT.”
But America can only be “great” when our elected officials actually honor this foundational quality.
Every advancement this nation has made towards actualizing the American Dream of forming “a more perfect union” has been made because citizens have the constitutionally granted power to make that change through the democratic processes of our representative republic.
What is happening in our country right now is not a joke. It is not something that can continue to be dismissed as “partisan politics”.
The Federal Government is harming citizens and non-citizens in ways that we have read about in history, but naïvely assumed could never happen here.
Violence and dehumanization is not a solution to any issue that we face as a people, and especially not at the hands of Federal Agents.
Though this violence isn’t new, it has reached levels that no one should be ignoring, let alone cheering on.
Congressman Pfluger has publicly issued nothing but praise for these actions, and he consistently gaslights any of his constituents that speak out against them by either diminishing their concerns or ignoring them completely.
In solidarity with the Free America Walkout movement, we chose to make a public display of how to exercise our constitutional right, guaranteed to us by the First Amendment in the Bill of Rights, to “peaceably assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
The January 20th event began with a reading of the Bill of Rights while participants gathered. Afterwards, we walked through downtown San Angelo to Congressman Pfluger’s office to deliver our demands directly to his staff.
Our demands:
1) Vote NO on any appropriation bills for the Department of Homeland Security that fails to rein in ICE.
2) Act immediately to pursue releasing the Epstein files in totality.
3) Reassert Congressional authority and oppose authoritarian expansion of executive power.
4) Honor your oath to the Constitution of the United States.
Upon reaching the Congressman’s office at 3:50pm, we rang the doorbell 3 times with no response.
To amplify the fact that we were unable to exercise our right to communicate with our Congressional Representative during working hours when, as his constituents, we should be able to access a member of his staff, we taped our individual demand letters to his office door, along with a few signs that we had carried with us through downtown.
The intention was for his staff to collect them when they returned to the office. If there had been a mail slot available for us to deliver our letters, we would have used it instead, but that was not an available option.
Through the public display of this actions, we are applying pressure to Congressman Pfluger to address these demands directly.
We are no longer interested in canned email responses or dismissive social media posts.
It is past time for him to listen to the concerns of ALL of his constituents, whether he agrees with them or not.
We insist that Congressman Pfluger respond to these demands, and challenge him to do so without demeaning our very real and appropriate concerns.
We were informed that the SAPD had removed them by 6:00 p.m. due to “complaints.”
To anyone who joined us, and even those who didn’t, we strongly encourage you to resubmit your demand letters to Congressman Pfluger’s office by mail, hand-delivery, or leaving a message or voicemail with staff at either his Washington or local offices – or all of the above to ensure he gets the message. “
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