On Wednesday night, Rep. Robert Hurt (R-Va.) and 143 others voted to continue the government shutdown that was sending the stock market downward and risking the full faith and credit of the United States.
Charlottesville’s federal workforce of nearly 1,500 should band together with the more than 12,000 federal employees and their families in Rep. Robert Hurt’s congressional district and oust him from Congress.
Instead of voting for the people he was elected to represent, he decided to play politics with their paychecks and my investments.
The 16-day shutdown slammed the U.S. economy for $24 billion in losses and significantly reduced fourth-quarter growth.
Rep. Hurt’s shutdown was a costly show of hyper-partisan gamesmanship designed to prevent a primary challenge from the right — not to serve the people of Charlottesville or the fifth district.
Jarrod Nagurka is second-year College student and the political director of the Virginia Young Democrats.
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