Well, hell, I gave it a shot

Florida pols ignore UFO disclosure petition

Maybe I’ll go with a more provocative question next time: You really think you can stop those massive UFO incursions over Langley AFB with that little thing of yours, Congressman? (C-SPAN)

In May, I put in a plug for the New Paradigm Institute, an activist nonprofit attempting to ruffle some policy feathers with a national “Call to Action” disclosure campaign.

NPI was, and still is, asking direct constituents of congressional lawmakers to sign a petition urging ratification of the 2025 UAP Disclosure Act. A virtually identical Senate bill was eviscerated in the House last year, but the same sponsors are back at it now, using pretty much the same language. It’s pushing for the presumptive release of UFO data, with a review board — independent of UFO starch — to force the Defense Department to defend its records classification structure. And it would be empowered with eminent domain to gain access to UFO material concealed by private corporations.

There’s nothing to suggest the political realities in the House have changed substantially since last year. But, reasons the NPI, maybe it’ll pass this time around if lawmakers hear from voters they actually represent. Any political momentum these petitions generate could energize college campuses this fall. As a prelude to potential mass mobilization, according to NPI, growing numbers of faculty members across the U.S. are interested in hosting teach-ins and rallies to get students up to snuff on a coverup dating back to the mid-20th century.

So I figured I’d do my part. In June, I signed the petition for auto-delivery to my three public servants in Washington, Sen. Marco Rubio, Sen. Rick Scott, and Rep. Greg Steube. Rubio was the only one who bothered to take it seriously enough to microwave a stale press release. His response arrived yesterday.

It was a five-paragraph rehash of his role in creating the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, with zero assessment by Rubio of its dismal performance. And it didn’t say beans about adding the UAPDA to the 2025 National Defense Authorization Act. It did, however, offer a few classic oldie-goldie lyrics like “I view the inability to accurately identify these phenomena entering our airspace as a major vulnerability for U.S. national security.” Two years ago, this was a visionary pronouncement. Today, it’s just a can of Pringles.

Yeah, sure, write anytime

Still, Rubio was more helpful than Rick Scott.

America’s record-setting health-care fraudster and two-term Florida governor got back with me on July 8. “Dear Mr. Cox,” he began. “Thank you for contacting me. I appreciate you taking the time to share your thoughts on issues important to you.”

He used the next four graphs of blah-blah-blah to remind me of how hard he’s fighting for me and families and preexisting conditions and consumer transparency and fetuses, with this kicker: “Should you have any additional questions, please feel free to contact me.”

OK, here’s two: How did you skate away from that HCA ripoff with $10M in severance and $300M in stock options? Why aren’t you mopping floors in jail?

At least Steube didn’t pretend to give a shit about “your thoughts on issues important to you.” But he has continued to regale this “Dear Floridian” with newsletters championing his values. The most consequential was his proposal to formally designate federal coastal waters as the “Donald John Trump Exclusive Economic Zone of the United States.” Plus, he has been paying attention to the 2025 NDAA. We know this because he told us how he managed to carve out this little add-on for next year: no funding “to purchase, display, or maintain material promoting radical gender ideology or pornographic content” in DoD educational programs. (Oh, snap – there goes the admiral’s subscription to Juggs . . .)

Just yesterday, he issued a “Flash Poll” touting legislation he advocates called The Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act and The Protection of Women in Olympic and Amateur Sports Act. Specifically, he wanted my feedback on this: Should males be permitted to compete in the women's categories at the Paris Olympics?

Of course I checked yes. Because women and girls in sports don’t need protecting. Any woman who can beat a man at anything in sports is a real athlete. Men make women stronger competitors. Every idiot in the world knows that.

So it goes.

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