Can I get some feedback on a letter I plan to send to the paper? (LONG)

The GOP chair in Cumberland County is named Ralph Reagan. Seriously. Today's paper carried a story about early voting, and in it Mr. Reagan explained he hates early voting because it "allows uninformed citizens to vote, which cheapens the outcome."

The GOP relies on uninformed voters, because if someone decided to become informed they'd never vote for a Repuke. So...I figured informing the citizens about Mr. Reagan's party's candidates would be a good thing.

Here's the letter. I haven't sent it yet; can I get a bit of DU love for it? Thanks.

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In Monday's newspaper, Cumberland County Republican Party chair Ralph Reagan said he was against the entire early voting process because it allows "uninformed citizens" to vote, which Reagan claims "cheapens" the outcome.

I certainly wouldn't want the outcome of this election to be cheapened, so allow me to inform the citizens about Senator John Senator McCain and Governor Sarah Governor Palin.

1. They're Both Corrupt. Senator McCain was a player in the famous Keating Five scandal, in which five Members of Congress stalled federal regulators from examining Charles Keating's Lincoln Savings and Loan in exchange for campaign contributions. Unlike the other four, Keating benefited Senator McCain in more ways than simply campaign contributions, including vacations at Keating's tropical retreat and trips on Keating's jet. The Washington Times, a very conservative newspaper, has uncovered a letter Senator McCain wrote on his official letterhead to Keating in 1986. It closed with, "As you know, I am deeply appreciative of your friendship and support over the years, and I would not want to do anything which would offend you. I look forward to seeing you very soon." Keating made a copy of the letter and wrote, in his own hand, over Senator McCain's typed letter: "Don't be silly, you can call me anything, write anything or do anything, I'm yours till death do us part. Charlie." Pulitzer Prize winner Tom Fitzpatrick describes Senator McCain as "the most reprehensible of the Keating Five."
(http://Senator McCainkeatingfive.com)

As for Governor Palin, many of her scandals revolve around firing people who won't bend to her will. She fired Wasilla librarian Mary Ellen Emmons after Emmons told Governor Palin she wouldn't remove books from the library. The outcry from this firing caused her to backpedal and reinstate Emmons. She fired Wasilla police chief Irl Stambaugh after he moved closing time for the local bars from 5am to 2am; the outcry from this one almost got her recalled until she agreed to hire a city manager. Stambaugh took his action to reduce drunk-driving accidents and arrests; some of Governor Palin's biggest campaign contributors were bar owners.
(http://commonmistakes.blogspot.com/2008/08/top-ten-sarah-Governor Palin-scandals.html)

2. During President Bush's administration, Senator McCain has voted with President Bush about 95 percent of the time, according to Congressional Quarterly's assessment of Senator McCain's voting record. The senator claims he will be the agent of change in Washington; it is difficult to understand how he's going to fix what's broken in our government when he was so instrumental in breaking it in the first place.
(http://www.factcheck.org/askfactcheck/is_it_true_john_Senator McCain_voted_with.html)

3. During Governor Palin's mayoralty, construction on the Wasilla Multi-Use Sports Complex was started. This is, according to the City of Wasilla's website, a 102,000-square-foot building featuring an NHL-size ice arena, an indoor artificial turf court, a running/walking track and three community meeting rooms. The ice arena seats 1700 for ice events, over 3000 for non-ice events, and the ice can be covered to turn the arena into a 23,000-square-foot exhibition hall. The artificial turf court covers 14,000 square feet, there are four full-size locker rooms, and the three conference rooms can be converted into a single large one. It's nice. It also required a sales tax increase and a $14 million bond issue to pay for it, many of the subcontractors were contributors to Governor Palin's campaign coffers, and it was built on land the city didn't have clear title to. Oops.
(http://alaskarama.com/musc/)
(http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122065537792905483.html)
(http://www.villagevoice.com/2008-10-08/news/the-book-of-sarah/5)

4. Senator McCain's voting record on veterans' issues is horribly bad. The Disabled American Veterans gives him a 20-percent rating on his veterans' issues voting record. It's the worst rating in the Senate and the second-worst rating in the entire Congress, eclipsed only by Utah's Representative Chris Cannon, who got a zero.
(http://www.votesmart.org/issue_rating_detail.php?r_id=3483)

5. Since Senator McCain and Governor Palin's supporters have said so much about Senator Obama's religion (much of it being false, like the idea the devoutly Christian Obama is a Muslim), Governor Palin's religion is also fair game. She attends four Assemblies of God churches. At least three of them are active in a movement called the Third Wave. It's fairly complex, it's anti-Catholic, it involves its followers taking over the government, and the Assemblies of God's leadership declared its excesses to be heresy both in 1949 and in 2000.

Governor Palin also supports Joel's Army, a Dominionist group that held a massive, months-long tent revival in Lakeland, Florida. It was operated by a Canadian evangelist named Todd Bentley. YouTube.com has several videos that feature Mr. Bentley bragging about how he likes to assault attendees. A good one is at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUTCWLoD4-4&feature=related, where Bentley kicked a man suffering from Stage 4 colon cancer in the stomach.
(http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bruce-wilson/sarah-Governor Palins-churches-and_b_124611.html)
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUTCWLoD4-4&feature=related)

6. Three of the key members of Senator McCain's campaign team are registered lobbyists. His transition team is being run by a lobbying firm headed by William Timmons, a registered lobbyist for Freddie Mac. Rick Davis, head of a lobbying firm that worked for both Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, is McCain's campaign manager. And one of his economic advisors, former Senator Phil Gramm, is a registered lobbyist for Switzerland's UBS Bank.
(http://news.aol.com/political-machine/2008/09/23/mccains-team-of-lobbyists/)

7. Governor Palin's stance on the Gravina Island Bridge, known in the Lower 48 as the Bridge to Nowhere, isn't what she told you it was during her vice-presidential nomination acceptance speech. The bridge in question will connect Ketchikan, Alaska, to its airport, which is on an island. When the bridge's price was $224 million, and would have been fully covered by federal-government earmarks, Governor Palin was all for it. When cost projections rose to $400 million, the government would no longer fully fund the bridge; at this point, Governor Palin turned against the project. She did, however, keep the allocated $224 million.
(http://www.adn.com/sarahpalin/story/511471.html)

8. Senator McCain is a serious gambler, and he's been well-funded by the gaming industry. The New York Times reports Senator McCain is the seventh-largest congressional recipient of campaign contributions from this industry; of the six who outpull him, five of them are from either Nevada or New Jersey.
(http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/28/us/politics/28gambling-web.html?_r=1&hp=&pagewanted=all&oref=slogin)

9. Governor Palin's husband Todd was a member of the Alaskan Independence Party from at least 1995 to at least 2000. The AIP is an extreme states' rights group that wants all federal lands in Alaska ceded to the state of Alaska, and some of its members would like the state to secede from the Union.
(http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26524024/)

10. Senator McCain is 72 years old and has a multitude of health problems, including four bouts with cancer.

It's good to be an informed voter.

question is the length. Does your paper print letters of that length?

But I will probably cut down on the descriptions. Thanks.

but it may be rejected because of its length. Hope it is printed, though.

because that's not a letter, it's a list.