My Thoughts on Congressman Swalwell

Dear Editor,

I disagree with Robert Thomas’s letter regarding Congressman Eric Swalwell (Sept. 7, 2022). Regardless of Fang, Swalwell is still a failed congressional performer and a hypocrite.

Swalwell is typically unable to explain, with any breadth or depth of knowledge, legislation for which he is held accountable. That’s because he doesn’t READ the legislation. I doubt he reads past the preamble (legislative Cliff Notes). How many of you have asked him legislative questions and got really vague answers. He’s a lazy, non-performing congressman. He’s also boring and vapid as a public speaker; prone to sweeping generalizations and false narratives; always searching for a media op so as not to be forgotten. He’s the butt of jokes by the media and other congressmembers. This clown does nothing more than warm a congressional seat and push the vote button. Swalwell enjoys his place in the congressional food chain and needs your vote to remain in it, but he gives nothing of substance in return.

Swalwell blathers about campaign reform, yet he’s one of the worst abusers of campaign money. He and his campaign managers spend lavishly on booze, air travel, restaurants, and upscale hotels in places like Paris, France. Why is this east-bay congressman campaigning in Paris France—for what purpose? I’ll bet the “campaigning” is really VACATIONING in France, and he’s just sticking it to his campaign donors. The Federal Election Committee (FEC) has already told him to quit using his campaign account for babysitting services (baby left behind) while Swalwell and his wife disappear on his overseas junkets. No wonder he’s nicknamed SpendWell.

Lucky for Swalwell, he stumbled into a district where the voting majority doesn’t seem to desire a competent, accountable, fiscally responsible statesman to occupy a federal seat on their behalf. What a waste of a precious federal seat.

–Monica Shieman, Castro Valley