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jayschool2013

(2,476 posts)
Tue Dec 10, 2019, 01:02 PM Dec 2019

My email to Sen. Grassley

Sent a similar note to Ernst, only thanking her for her military service, and that her colleagues voted to remove Clinton, not her personally.

Dear Senator Grassley:

Thank you for your years of service to Iowa in your various roles in government. However, if you want that legacy to include standing up for the rule of law and the Constitution, you have no choice but to remove Donald J. Trump from the Office of the President when his trial is conducted in the Senate.

The con man in the Oval Office has skirted and flouted the law since his inauguration nearly three years ago. The bribery scandal involving Ukraine and his clear obstruction of Congress — added to the obvious obstruction of justice outlined in the Mueller Report and the emoluments violations charges now finally making their way through U.S. district court — make him a clear and present danger to our republic and our fair system of elections.

Should you choose not to remove President Trump from office, you are sending a loud and clear message to all Iowans that you no longer care about those things we thought mattered — namely the rule of law and the Constitution.

Twenty years ago, you voted to remove President Bill Clinton from office because he lied under oath about an extramarital affair. I will consider it the height of hypocrisy if you don't vote to remove President Trump based on far worse crimes than Clinton committed.

Thank you for your time.

Jeff Browne
Iowa City

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My email to Sen. Grassley (Original Post) jayschool2013 Dec 2019 OP
Recommended. guillaumeb Dec 2019 #1
From those douchebags? jayschool2013 Dec 2019 #2
I will pull together my own letter exboyfil Dec 2019 #3
THANKS! jayschool2013 Dec 2019 #4
Well done! Eliot Rosewater Dec 2019 #5
Direct and to the point. essaynnc Dec 2019 #6
Please do. jayschool2013 Dec 2019 #7
Good letter Bayard Dec 2019 #8
All GOP senators are shit at this point. progressoid Dec 2019 #9
Nicely done PatSeg Dec 2019 #10
Bravo! Great letter. Duppers Dec 2019 #11
Another one of those posts where I want to click multiple times. Can I buy forward some valentines? erronis Dec 2019 #12
Oui. Et merci beaucoup. jayschool2013 Dec 2019 #17
Thank you for writing this letter. You gave me inspiration to write a similar letter to Rob Portman Cousin Dupree Dec 2019 #13
You're welcome jayschool2013 Dec 2019 #18
Well done. zentrum Dec 2019 #14
Sadly, i fear he will never see it. Whynotboth Dec 2019 #15
They only read the ones with checks attached. CaptYossarian Dec 2019 #16

jayschool2013

(2,476 posts)
2. From those douchebags?
Tue Dec 10, 2019, 01:06 PM
Dec 2019

Maybe a second of conscience. They'll probably just see the IC address and assume I'm a crazy liberal. I'm both crazy and a liberal, but the two aren't tied together in any way.

If 50,000 Iowans did the same, who knows?

exboyfil

(18,023 posts)
3. I will pull together my own letter
Tue Dec 10, 2019, 01:11 PM
Dec 2019

Yours is excellent. I agree that Grassley and Ernst are useless.

Eliot Rosewater

(32,537 posts)
5. Well done!
Tue Dec 10, 2019, 01:15 PM
Dec 2019

Any GOP who does not vote to remove him can no longer be considered a patriot.

I wish that wasnt true because it will probably be all of them but that is simply how it is.



essaynnc

(871 posts)
6. Direct and to the point.
Tue Dec 10, 2019, 01:35 PM
Dec 2019

Do you mind if I copy this to Senator Richard Burr of NC? He did vote for Clinton's impeachment....
Thanks

progressoid

(50,784 posts)
9. All GOP senators are shit at this point.
Tue Dec 10, 2019, 03:02 PM
Dec 2019

And Iowa Republicans are shit too. A recent poll showed Grassley and Ernst's numbers dropping within the GOP. BUT Trump's numbers are still higher than our Senators.

Morons all.


PatSeg

(49,754 posts)
10. Nicely done
Tue Dec 10, 2019, 03:10 PM
Dec 2019

I like how you started out thanking him for his years of service. The email sounds sincere and civil.

erronis

(17,095 posts)
12. Another one of those posts where I want to click multiple times. Can I buy forward some valentines?
Tue Dec 10, 2019, 03:45 PM
Dec 2019

Cousin Dupree

(1,866 posts)
13. Thank you for writing this letter. You gave me inspiration to write a similar letter to Rob Portman
Tue Dec 10, 2019, 03:51 PM
Dec 2019
 

Whynotboth

(17 posts)
15. Sadly, i fear he will never see it.
Tue Dec 10, 2019, 04:00 PM
Dec 2019

and sadder still .... if he did... he wouldn't care.


You can't expect redemption or justice out of people like Grassley, Cruz, Inhofe, Cornyn, Scott, Blunt, Graham, Romney, or least of all McConnell.

CaptYossarian

(6,448 posts)
16. They only read the ones with checks attached.
Tue Dec 10, 2019, 04:32 PM
Dec 2019

Do a "Michael Moore". He sent checks to candidates in the name of Aryan Nation and the Klan. The checks got cashed too. Then he embarrassed them on his old TV show.

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