The San Bruno Beacon

In one of the worst cases of engage brain before opening mouth stupidity I have seen in awhile, Jackie Speier (nicknamed the "the Poodle" by former California State Senator and San Mateo County Superior Court Judge Quentin Kopp) was booed by other Members of Congress as she gave her first speech in Congress. Speier is an all sizzle and no steak, loud mouth, do nothing politician. A fact that was quickly recognized by the Members of Congress who booed her.

In its April 11th story titled, "Speier's first House speech gets booed", the San Mateo Daily News squeezed Speier's Jonestown story into the article. The 30 year old Jonestown story has absolutely nothing to do with the fact that Speier was booed by other Members of Congress. However, the Jonestown story is the multipurpose political weapon/shield used by Speier and her supporters to deflect criticism, build sympathy and support, and distract attention from her shortcomings and failure as a legislator.

The Jonestown tragedy has been a recurring backdrop and theme in all of Speier's political campaigns. Haven't Speier and her political allies ridden the tragic Jonestown saga far enough? More than 900 people died at Jonestown. The never ending, ghoulish use of the macabre Jonestown ritualistic mass murder suicide story (by Speier and her political allies), as a sympathy ploy for building and maintaining political support for Speier, is both bizarre and unsettling. In my opinion, building a political career on the 900+ bloated, dead bodies of the victims of a ritualistic murder, suicide orgy of death is about as bizarre, macabre, and dysfunctional as politics gets.

Speier's already pathetic representation of the 12th Congressional District (that covers northern San Mateo County, parts of central San Mateo County, and southwestern portions of San Francisco), at a time when we need strong representation in Congress, does a great disservice to all residents of the 12th Congressional District.

Congressman Lantos was a tough, intelligent person of substance who had the respect of his peers. Now, we have Jackie Speier, the queen of histrionics and whining representing us in Congress.