A Dog with a Bone

I'll admit it, I have not been able to let the memo-gate go. My animosity is still pretty high towards Senator Martinez, too. It's nice that he doesn't disappoint.

This was in The Orlando Sentinel this morning:

Martinez said he is working with the administration on the issue and doesn't regret his vote for arctic drilling -- which was part of his campaign positions. "The people of Florida don't want it. The people of Alaska did."

Nice, right? I wrote a letter to the editor, I'll let you know if it gets published. I also wrote a letter to Senator Martinez, tilting at windmills once again. I said that I thought Alaska already had two senators and why would he ignore the wishes of his constituency and represent Alaska instead? I've written and emailed the senator a number of times. I'm sure this letter will receive the same response...absolutely nothing. I probably should have told Senator Martinez about mixing his tenses, his sentence should have been, The people of Florida didn't want it. But I'm just nit picking.

I would like to ask anyone from Florida (someone questioned me about calling myself a Floridian on another blog so I'll just ask any resident of the state) to send the fine senator a message that perhaps he'd like to represent us. You know, since that's what he was elected to do.

PS - I was actually born in Florida but since 2000 I kind of like to keep it quiet.

Update - no, my letter wasn't printed this morning.

Update 4/16/05 - my letter was printed this morning! Yeah! (Clearly, I am a nerd) I had corrected Senator Martinez' grammer and matched the tenses in his statement but the paper put it back as he said it. No matter, mine was the first letter.