This is another Wisconsin Diary. This time from Oklahoma, because tomorrow we are all Cheeseheads.
Sure it's another "Letter to the President", and I make no apology for adding yet another Diary to the most "over-diaried" subject of the last few weeks.
Dear Mr President,
Of late I have received many, many emails from you. I understand that you have a busy schedule, and I generally don't trouble you with a reply, but I am breaking that habit, just this once.
It is always a pleasure to hear from you, the First Lady or the Vice-President suggesting that I might enjoy breaking bread at your dinner table. Indeed I would, yet I do believe that there are other, more deserving guests.
As you are no doubt fully aware, there is an election tomorrow. I know that there have been calls for you to inject yourself into the process. Well any election workers would appreciate a visit, and a few encouraging words from their President and it is not unreasonable to suggest that you may have been able to garner a few votes for the challenger.
Equally, I do understand that this is a State matter. It is an internal Wisconsin affair and while it may have become the Poster Child for the whole Democratic movement in this country, I realise that the President inserting his Office in this way might potentially have back-fired.
Be that as it may, it is done now. Tomorrow they vote and let the chips fall where they will.
I would like you to consider one thing though. Win, lose or draw it is highly probable that the struggle has caused Wisconsin Liberals, and the local OFA to build a ground game of such strength and efficiency that they have pretty much secured Wisconsin for you in November. And they all count.
So rather than keep inviting me to dinner, I think it would be nice were you to use that time to visit Wisconsin, and have dinner with those tireless workers, who have been abused, arrested, derided by big, out-of-State, corporate interests in their quest to visit the indignities of lower wages, fewer jobs, worse education and a roll-back of civil rights on the people of the Badger State.
Go to Wisconsin, Mr President ... and thank those guys properly. I can order-in pizza, I won't starve.
Respectfully
Twigg