Dear Congressman Van Hollen (cc Congresswoman Wasserman-Schultz)

The fact that the media is able to continue covering and repeating Congresswoman Wasserman-Schultz's excuses rationale for not performing her duties as a member of the Red-to-Blue program, is absolutely frustrating. It is not the message I enjoy reading seeing in the media in Florida (especially in Florida) or anywhere else. It is not as frustrating as seeing our Democratic candidates in Florida having to put up with lukewarm assistance from our establishment Democratic leaders, but it is frustrating nonetheless.

2008 needs an all-hands-on-deck effort and GOP enabling is an inexcusable act by anyone, most of all a member of the DCCC's Red to Blue team. I rarely contact members of Congress outside of my own state, but the composition of the United States Congress is a national issue affecting all of us regardless of where we live.

Dear Congresswoman Schultz, please throw your three GOP colleagues overboard and go below to read my correspondence to your Democratic colleague, Congressman Van Hollen . .

Dear Congressman Van Hollen,

We have three critical races in Florida that need the DCCC's overall commitment, and Congresswoman Wasserman-Schultz's specific attention.
 
Regardless of her feelings toward incumbent Republican-Americans Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Lincoln Diaz-Balart & Mario Diaz-Balart, the fact is NONE of these three members deserve to be reelected. None of them are faithfully serving their districts or the country, and all of us have a duty to retire them with every tool at our disposal.  

I cannot begin to express my frustration at Congresswoman Wasserman-Schultz's insistence on placing her comfort level above her duties to the Democratic party and above the national interest. All three of the Republicans she has refused to campaign against, and to work to unseat, have voted consistently to hurt America's future, to weaken the United State's economy and its international standing from both an economic and security perspective.

The three members in question, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Lincoln Diaz-Balart & Mario Diaz-Balart, are unsafe at any roll-call, and we need all hands on deck to relieve them of their duties.

Please insist that Congresswoman Wasserman Schultz help us relieve all three of these non-functioning, dangerous and disruptive Republicans who all share a record of betraying the public trust they swore to uphold. If she cannot do that, she should not be a part of Red-to-Blue; and what a huge disappointment that will be for her to forfeit that responsibility.

Thank you for your time on behalf of all of us who are represented by the Congress of the United States regardless of the congressional district in which we live.

Caoimhin Laochdha
Worcester, Vermont