David Price Responds to Constituents, Other Politicians Don't

Out of every office holding politician I've ever contacted, Price & his office have had the best response record that I’ve experienced, they’ve responded to many of my e-mails. Many politicians and their offices won’t return e-mails, and sometimes even voicemails.

A year or two ago my fiancé, as a classicists at UNC who studies ancient Greek & Roman stuff, was planning on going on a partially school/scholarship sponsored summer-long trip to Rome back when passports were really really backed up. He applied for one and about 6 months later, and only with frequent prodding, they had still barely begun to process it. Time was running out, a great deal of money was already spent on some unrefundable things (I don’t recall off hand if it was the plane tickets, the place they were staying, the summer long meal plan, &/or other trip costs), and if the passport was not ready in time he was going to lose the scholarship money and just have to eat the costs of those which isn’t something our budget could afford at the time. Some politicians said they can’t help, some like Elizabeth Dole never responded, and only one, David Price, said he would put pressure to bear, and if that didn’t work then he said my fiancé could use the congressional passport office in Washington. After waiting around half a year and it starting to look like this wonderful opportunity was going to turn into a real financial crisis nightmare for us, my fiancé got his passport about 36 hours before he had to leave for Rome for the summer where he was able to have both great life experiences, and professional experiences that will help him find a job once he graduates with his PhD.

I already liked Price for his stance as a cosponsor of ENDA as well as some other positive gay rights related stances.

David Price has my vote and is a candidate I could get excited about if I saw a campaign going on. I haven’t heard much about his campaign for reelection, I only recently started seeing a few David Price campaign signs around town whereas I see Lawson ones everywhere, the only campaign website I can find looks old… I don’t see any recent news on it. Through the Orange County Democratic Party I signed up for campaign e-mails from David Price’s reelection campaign but haven’t received any.

I’d be willing to put a David Price bumper sticker on my car, I’d probably put up a few signs around town, might help with other campaigning efforts if time allowed, and might even donate to the campaign if I was ever asked to. He’s been a positive part of our political landscape for a long time so maybe he doesn’t need to campaign to win, but he’s done plenty for me, and I wouldn’t mind returning the favor if their campaign were to ask. Even if they don't need to campaign to win, it wouldn't hurt to build up some excitement about this race on the democratic side.
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I posted the above message on www.orangepolitics.org yesterday, an Orange County progressive blog that operates in much the same way BlueNC does, and was pretty quickly contacted by someone from Price for Congress who gave me the location where I could get a yard sign, who said "We are running an active campaign, though many of the events are just starting up because of Congress staying in session longer than expected." And I think we should all pitch in and help them get started. I've requested they mail me a bumper sticker as well. Between my rainbow Obama bumper sticker, my Obama-Biden Bumper sticker, my HRC bumper sticker, and my Kay Hagan bumper sticker I'm going to have a hard time finding a place for it, but I think this campaign is one that deserves finding space for both on our bumpers and in our excitement for this election.

And just for good measure I thought I'd share a picture I took of Price speaking at an Obama rally in Chapel Hill before Obama took the stage.