Svartalf wrote:given that my rep is an apparatchik totally infeodated to her party, and that, since I'm not a member of said party and disagree with the line on a number of points, I can shower her with observations and suggestions, that will fall on deaf ears as soon as it doesn't fit her own partisan politics.
The farmers in my area beat up on this guy about pesticide regulation all the time. It's necessary that there be a countervailing force to oppose theirs or these really gnarly pesticides will be used a couple miles from my house (and if they spray a fifty thousand acre field with a fumigant, friend, let me assure you that a couple miles is not nearly fucking far enough).
Find someone to oppose her, or primary her (dunno how that works in France but whatever, it's democratic so there has to be a means of opposition). If it cramps your style that much, move. I did.
HTH.
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