What is David Schweikert going to do about the hideously UNAMERICAN treatment of children seeking asylum?

You may remember that on June 25th, I attended a telephone town hall held by David Schweikert, the guy who "represents" me in Congress. Except he doesn't. He represents his Big Money owners and some extreme Right Wing voters who he let have a voice at that town hall. Regardless of where they live.

I mentioned that I had hoped to speak with David a day or two after the townhall in which I had registered to ask him a question but never got a turn, despite signaling my request immediately upon connecting to the conference call.

Anyway, I'm hopeful that David and I can have a direct conversation later this week. If we do and it turns out well, I'll let you know.

It turns out that I never heard from him. Unfortunately, I'm not surprised.

David's push poll during that town hall event identified border issues as the number one concern of listeners that evening. I'm confident he wasn't surprised about that. But did he expect those venomous callers to approve of the torture and abuse of children in our own state?

IS he even surprised about the latest reports, just this afternoon about mistreatment of children at a detention center in Yuma?

July 9, 2019, 5:30 PM MST

By Jacob Soboroff and Julia Ainsley

WASHINGTON — The poor treatment of migrant children at the hands of U.S. border agents in recent months extends beyond Texas to include allegations of sexual assault and retaliation for protests, according to dozens of accounts by children held in Arizona collected by government case managers and obtained by NBC News.

A 16-year-old Guatemalan boy held in Yuma, Arizona, said he and others in his cell complained about the taste of the water and food they were given. The Customs and Border Protection agents took the mats out of their cell in retaliation, forcing them to sleep on hard concrete.

A 15-year-old girl from Honduras described a large, bearded officer putting his hands inside her bra, pulling down her underwear and groping her as part of what was meant to be a routine pat down in front of other immigrants and officers.

The girl said "she felt embarrassed as the officer was speaking in English to other officers and laughing" during the entire process, according to a report of her account.

A 17-year-old boy from Honduras said officers would scold detained children when they would get close to a window, and would sometimes call them "puto," an offensive term in Spanish, while they were giving orders. [more]

My indignation at this moment is such that if David does NOT publicly and emphatically denounce the sexual assault and other harsh treatment of children by employees of the federal government and actively confront GOP House AND Senate leadership to demand such UNAmerican conduct be immediately halted, he deserves to be ousted from office, not later than the November 2020 election.

He probably expects that to be the case given the ethics problems he has gotten himself into already... in which case his ouster might come sooner, and not necessarily by way of the voters choosing a Democratic successor.