An Open Letter To Our Leaders

Note: Please feel free to copy this letter and forward it to your representatives. We must speak the truth to power, even if we are in support of that power.

Now that the biggest election in our lifetime is concluded, I want to issue an urgent request. An untold amount of damage has been, and is being, done to our Constitution and our government by the Bush Administration. The majority of the change that I believe President-Elect Obama is calling for needs to come from you, our representatives. I will preface this by saying that I am in complete support of President-Elect Obama and have been volunteering my efforts for his campaign since the beginning of the primaries. I believe in his ability to govern and his ideas and vision for our country.

I believe that our first priority is a return of all Constitutionally-appointed powers to all branches of government. Power needs to be taken back from the Executive Branch and returned to its rightful place within the Legislative and Judicial Branches of government. The partisan rancor that was the hallmark of the Bush Administration must stop. We must have the checks and balances, brilliantly developed by the Framers, in order to back away from the current movement towards tyranny and despotism.

I urge you to work with the Obama Administration in the interests of your constituents and your country, without bitter partisanship and with hope for the future. I also urge you to never again sign over your Congressional powers to the Executive Branch.

Please represent our desire to return this country to its basic values and once again live out the creed of “a government for, of and by the people.”