The below is a letter to the editor that I wrote today. While I am using it in NY and NJ (and a couple other states) I figure that if I tried to use it nationwide the editors may not run it from someone out of state. Please feel free to edit and use as you see fit for your own Congressional districts or state for Senate races.
Since this GOP controlled Senate and House has been in power we have had no meaningful action on illegal immigration, there were failures to save lives before and after Katrina, unfunded federal mandates have caused skyrocketing real estate taxes, we are in the most deadliest month in Iraq in over two years, and Osama Bin Laden is still on the loose. Not to mention the Mark Foley sex scandal, Tom Delay's forced retirement, and prominent Republicans being convicted or pleading guilty to felonies. So what are the Republicans and their supporters answers for this incompetence and failure to lead?
They run racist and sexist commercials in Tennessee, inaccurately state that a Democrat called a sex line and charged tax payers for it, attack Michael J. Fox and claim the effects of Parkinson's disease are faked, target a decorated war veteran in Virginia for words in a fictional novel (words that Republicans themselves have used in books), and link Democrats to Osama Bin Laden, the President of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and North Korea leader Kim Jong-iL.
The choices next week could not be clearer. A vote for any Republican and their continued control of Congress is simply a vote for staying the course. A vote for Democratic candidates so that they may lead the Senate and the House is a vote for true solutions and a new and more positive direction for America.