I heart you Ms. Johnstone. I have had a problem with the VA for over twenty years. They denied me benefits and I filled appeals, etc. Even though I wasn’t a fan, and was honest about not being a fan, Senator Boxer’s office helped me for OVER fifteen years trying to “break through” the VA bullshit. They took my phone calls, answered my emails, wrote letters, found OLD letters and files I needed to prove my case. And it mostly worked. I received my Honorable Discharge about a year ago, got some other benefits restored, and now I am almost finished with my case with the VA. When Boxer retired, I contacted Ms Harris’ office. I told them about Sen Boxers help and that with just a little help from my new Senators office I could get my remaining case with the VA expedited. They asked me to fill out a form, it is the government and I’d had to do the same thing for Sen. Boxer. Actually I did it a couple of times for Boxer because of the amount of time involved. I filled out their form. They said to wait two weeks and someone would call. No one called. I called them. They said they were just getting “used” to Washington, that there were LOTS of people to help and to be patient. I waited and called the next Friday just to ask if there was a time-frame, a general time-frame, that they could give me so I wouldn’t obsess over it. The young lady said there must be some mistake, that she would have someone call me that day. No one called. I called the next Friday. SAME EXACT THING “Someone will call today.” No one called. I called every single Friday for two months being told every time that someone would call me back. No one ever has.
Ms. Harris is obviously not able to do the job that a nice geriatric lady was able to do so why should we even consider her for higher office?
