The USS Stormy Daniels took a hit this week via an editorial appearing in a newspaper called The News Star, titled “Stormy Daniels: Time to Say Goodbye”

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Daniels fires back:

After reading your recent editorial asking me to say goodbye to the people of Louisiana, I am compelled to respond to your slew of stereotypical assumptions and misguided conclusions. By way of introduction, my name is Stormy Daniels and, as with so many before you, you have failed to see me for who I am and why I am exploring a run for the United States Senate.

First, your assertion that my listening tour consists of nothing more than “chatting up the bar crowd and dissin’ David Vitter” is as insulting as it is wrong. You suggest doing this will become old, and, on that point, I agree. But if you took the time to speak with the people I have spoken with, then perhaps you would take a different point of view. Perhaps what you would start finding old is how many Louisianans are out there hurting without someone willing to speak to them, let alone for them.

I would invite you to ask Patricia Berryhill who donated her home to convert into a health clinic in the lower Ninth Ward in New Orleans and with whom I had the pleasure to meet and discuss the severe health care crisis we are facing throughout Louisiana and the U.S.

I would invite you to speak with Tim Heinzen of Barney’s Police and Hunting Supplies in Lafayette to whom I spoke with regarding the threat of unconstitutional gun laws being forced down the throats of law-abiding Louisianans and Americans.

Indeed, my conversations in Delhi revolved not around David Vitter but around the major economic challenges this community is facing. One cannot help but notice shuttered storefronts that, in their silence, speak as loudly as any one person can about hardships faced in northeastern Louisiana and the overwhelming sense they shared that their leaders have forgotten them.

I have made this clear from the beginning. I am not doing this to “dis on David.” I never bring up the name of Louisiana’s junior senator unless I am asked by Louisianans I have had the honor to meet.

That they are concerned about Louisiana’s reputation and influence in Washington because of the senator’s behavior is as legitimate as any other concern. If this editorial board disagrees with this belief I guess it’s your business. But perhaps it would be wiser for this newspaper to listen to its readers, as I have, than to tell them what they should be thinking.

For this newspaper’s editorial board to suggest otherwise is not just misguided but proof positive that our current system with regards to journalism and politics is severely broken. Regardless of whether I decide to enter the U.S. Senate race, I will continue to make this point as loudly and clearly as I possibly can.

If through my travels around the state I can bring the least bit of attention to the plight of those whose voices are unheard by either our elected leaders or the mainstream media, then I will consider my efforts not just an honor but a success.

When The News-Star decides to tell me that it’s time to say goodbye, that only serves to encourage me to continue saying hello to Louisiana’s good, hardworking people.

One final point, as a correction, I am in favor of the fair tax, not the flat tax. Not sure how you’ll be able to work that into a knock on my breasts, but I will look forward to your attempt.