Over the past few months I have been learning, as all Americans should, the art of communicating with our elected representatives. Nowadays it’s a good deal easier than it used to be, since they all have email forms on their Web sites. Do these emails get read? Nobody knows.
U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa.AP file photo | For lehighvalleylive.com
I suspect it’s a lot easier for politicians to screen emails, so they only have to read the ones that tell them what they want to hear. I am sure this is the case with Sen. Pat Toomey.
I wrote him a very respectful letter expressing my grave concerns about the appointment of the unashamedly corrupt and extravagantly unqualified Betsy DeVos to head the Department of Education. Surely, liberal or conservative, we can all agree on the importance of our children’s education? Almost immediately I received back a very cordial and extremely noncommittal boilerplate response.
And then came Tuesday’s vote. Toomey came through — for President Trump, for the billionaires, and for nobody else. So I have written him another letter. I informed him that as a Democrat, I probably wasn’t going to vote for him anyway, though I might once have respected him. But as a father of two children that I fervently hope might someday go to college, I am firmly committed to bringing about his defeat for re-election in 2022. In his blind and unprincipled loyalty to an out-of-control party, and to the egomaniac demagogue who has taken its helm, he has betrayed not only the hardworking people of Pennsylvania, but the nation, its children — and its future.
Bruce McKillip
Easton
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