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OK. Marjorie Taylor Greene represents Georgia’s District 14, which is the northwest corner of the state. I happen to know that area a little; my wife was born and grew up there, and we’ve gone back for family visits now and again.So I just checked the Letters To The Editor of one of the main newspapers in the district, the Dalton Daily Citizen–News. A quote from a letter dated January 30:“In the three weeks that she has been present in Congress, Rep. Greene has done nothing but create chaos and spectacle by airing her insane ideas about impeaching President Joe Biden, negating the reality of school shootings, refusing to wear a mask and avoiding metal detectors. She has done nothing toward economic relief for those affected by the pandemic here, nothing toward facilitating a vaccine response to COVID-19 in Georgia, nothing toward positive legislative action.”Another letter, also dated January 30:“I am asking U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene to resign her office. Her advocation of violence and adherence to conspiracy theories make it eminently clear that she is unfit to represent Northwest Georgia.”At that point, the paywall came down, but what I could see of the other recent letters did not look like a massive surge of support for Greene. The news section of the paper was running an article listing all the inflammatory things that Greene has said; it was an Associated Press article and not locally written, but at least the paper isn’t trying to sweep them under the rug.What about the other main newspaper in the district, the Rome News-Tribune? The Republican Party of the 14th Congressional District issued a statement to the paper; I quote part of it here:“Does Congress have a right to shut down Congresswoman Marjorie Greene because they don’t like what she says? Does Congress have the right to diminish and disenfranchise the voters of the 14th district of Georgia? It is the 14th district who gets to decide who represents them. We don’t like the fact that the establishment and mainstream media are trying to take that away and silence our voice in Congress. It sets an unsettling and dangerous precedent."We believe Marjorie Greene has been targeted because she is a conservative that represents conservatives like us and those across the district. We have received countless calls, texts, emails, and messages showing continued support for her. We are giving her a chance. We have a process to follow, and if we don’t like what she does or says as our representative, we take it to the voting booth next election.”However, the Letters to the Editor included a letter that said this, in part, dated January 22, 2021:“This is a call to my fellow citizens, as well as a rebuke of U.S. Rep. Marjorie Greene’s deplorable indulgence in partisan gestures. A call to stand in opposition to our representative. Whether it be through writing to her, or contacting her through social media, let her know your concerns.“Her actions of late are not only disgraceful, but deeply troubling and would contribute to establishing a remarkably dangerous precedent. The precedent of using impeachment as a political hammer against those whom you disagree with. It’s distasteful, unconstitutional, and antithetical to western values.”And a letter dated January 14 says this:“Your relentless trafficking in conspiracy theories may have seemed like a harmless way to get attention prior to this, but it never was, and the riot on the Capitol is both the proof, and the inevitable conclusion of such disinformation. Your false claims of voter fraud undermine our American democracy and disenfranchise the voters of the great State of Georgia.And now, for better or worse, you are our representative for the next two years. We therefore demand as your constituents that you immediately:1. Drop the false claims of voter fraud, which have been thrown out of court by dozens of judges across this nation – many appointed by Republicans and even by the current president – and that have been refuted time and again by Georgia’s Republican Secretary of State.2. Acknowledge the legitimacy of President-elect Biden.3. Denounce the violence at the Capitol as well as any future calls for violence.4. Accept the seriousness of the job in which you now find yourself. As our congresswoman, you now stand in hallowed halls and represent the people of the 14th Congressional District of Georgia. Rise to that challenge. The days of spinning late night conspiracy theories in YouTube videos must be a thing of the past. This is the real world, not internet fantasy land, and your words can have very serious consequences.”So the subset of people in GA-14 who write letters to the editors of their local papers are not showing overwhelming support towards her. In fact, many are disgusted with her. However, this is not a huge sample size, nor is it necessarily representative of the entire district. And the Republican Party in her district is squarely (and predictably) behind her.

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I have told practically no one about this, but I had a horrendous episode—and it might have been the best thing that ever happened to me. I’ll never know.I was in Air Force pilot training and they had a program entitled Golden Flow that involved random urine testing for drugs.Go ahead, pause for a moment, and have a good laugh over the name of the program. Yes, Golden Flow was really the name. Okay? Let’s continue.One day I got a note to go donate a sample. No biggie. I’ve never smoked anything ever in my life and I’m the kind of drinker who can knock off half a bottle of beer three or four times a year.Three days later I got another note that said the lab had a problem with the sample and I had to do it again. How annoying, but fine, I didn’t give it a second thought.THE HORRORS OF GUILTY UNTIL PROVEN INNOCENTThree days later I got a note to meet in the office of the hospital commander, a full colonel. I walked in and in addition to him was every colonel on base: the base commander, the wing commander, the training commander, and then two captains, my squadron commander and my flight commander. They asked me to sit down.The hospital commander then informed me that I had tested positive for heroin and that I was being terminated from the Air Force. The first test was positive and the second time I went in was to confirm it and that also tested positive for heroin.There was nothing I could do. No appeals. Anyone caught by project Golden Flow was guilty until proven innocent and there was no way to prove innocence.The colonel who was the commander of the hospital did all the talking and he was a real asshole. He raged on and on about how I’d put Air Force planes at risk, you know, all the horrible stuff you’d say to anyone who actually flew Air Force jets while on heroin.IT MADE NO SENSEBut everyone else in the room was silent. Looking back, I’ve always taken that to mean that they were looking at everything else but the test:I’d been married nearly five years and had a four-year-old child.Only a few months earlier I’d graduated from college with a degree in aerospace engineering.I’d finished USAF ROTC as a Distinguished Graduate, first in my class.I was now right at the top my class in Air Force pilot training.We’d had three major 100-question academic tests up to that point—out of the six we’d do during the year—and I had scored 100% on all three. No one scores 100% on those tests! I was a legend among the commanders who were sitting in that room.They all knew I didn’t smoke or drink and that I was kind of a nerd who studied all the time and on rainy days when the rest of the class went to the Officer’s Club to drink beer and smoke cigars, I went to the simulator building and flew extra rides—hence the reason I was leading in the class.These are not things that one would expect from a heroin user.GLEEFUL JOYBut none of that mattered to the commander, nor to the Air Force program.The colonel who ran the hospital was absolutely joyful with glee. The Golden Flow program had been under challenge and he loved the program. He figured that catching a pilot training student was exactly what the program needed to keep going.I mean, seriously, the guy was enjoying it. He felt vindicated after defending it for so long.LUCKY MEBehind the scenes the other colonels started making calls. It was all done in secret, but I later got hints that they had arranged for some outside investigators to come in.It turned out that they quickly found a pattern of several other people—not pilots—who had complained of their innocence after testing positive. And, upon checking into those guys, investigators also felt that they were the opposite of the kind of person who would be using heroin.Somebody wondered: Why is it that on this base the people who are testing positive for heroin are the opposite of the type they normally see?Lucky for me, within weeks, they cracked the case when they discovered an airman in the lab who was selling a service of swapping urine samples for a fee. When one of his clients got tapped by Golden Flow, this clever entrepreneur would swap samples with someone he knew would be clean. Up to that point, he’d never been stupid enough to choose a pilot, which would raise big suspicions.He knew that the first positive was basically ignored and the person had to come back for a re-test. Only the second positive test was grounds for dismissal. And so, his client had given him two samples and he watched for the return of the victim so he could swap in the exact same drug the second time.THE AFTERMATHI never found out if the other innocent guys were re-instated. I hoped so.But what I do know is that a few weeks later, I was called into the same office, with the hospital commander sitting, as before, behind his desk, and all the other colonels as well as my two captain commanders there as well.I sat down and the hospital commander, with his hands trembling almost uncontrollably, read a letter of apology and announced my re-instatement.I went back to the flight line in great relief.The next day I found out that the hospital commander had taken early retirement and we’d be getting a new colonel. And I found out that project Golden Flow, an Air Force-wide program, had been cancelled!I always wondered if that incident helped me in the end.Before it happened, I had been doing very well and had a shot at being first in my class. But being near the top of the class one-third of the way through was not at all like being #1 at the end. But after that, I always felt that everything that could break my way, broke my way and I did, indeed, graduate first.SPECIAL ASSIGNMENT HELP?Shortly after that fiasco, something weird happened to the Air Force assignment system for pilot training graduates.Up until a few months before my class graduated, a block of assignments went to each class and they chose from that list by class rank—with the #1 graduate going first.But that was a hit and miss system because there was no guarantee what would be in each class’s block.And so, for just six months—beginning a few months before my class graduated and ending a few months after my class graduated—the Air Force tried out something new: whoever was first in the class could choose any aircraft in the Air Force they were qualified to fly. And the rest of the class chose from the traditional block, which was short by one aircraft. We couldn’t choose an SR-71 because those required a couple of thousand hours, but just about everything else was open to me.And I chose to fly VIP transports at the elite Andrews Air Force Base in Washington, which was something I could not have taken before that window opened and I could not have taken after that brief assignment experiment ended.BEST THING THAT EVER HAPPENED TO ME?Four years to the month after being told I was going to be dishonorably discharged for using heroin, I was standing on the ramp at Andrews Air Force Base, chatting with the President of the United States and the First Lady.I’ve always wondered if the project Golden Flow disaster was the best thing that ever happened to me. I’ll never know.