My Letter to Sherrod Brown....

September 21, 2008

Hon. Sherrod Brown:

I have known you since you first took office as a State Rep back in the late 70’s. I was a page back then and you were just a little bit older most of us pages. You were a hero to all of us who had political aspirations.

I watched your career with great enthusiasm and have supported you in any way I could when I served as the Treasurer of the Cuyahoga County Democratic Party. I watched with great glee as you resurrected yourself after losing the Secretary of State race and came back to fight for the working people of Ohio by taking over the house seat of another great progressive, Donald Pease. And I am proud to say that you are now “my senator”, that I knew you once, almost a lifetime ago.

I have never asked any political person that I have known over the years for any favor, to do anything for a relative or friend or even to support a bill that I found urgent. I always have had enough trust in our party to think that just being a democrat was enough for me.

But now, as I watch the country that I know we both love, teetering on the brink of financial ruin, I write to ask you to do something for me, for the people of Ohio and the people of this great country of ours.

Please, Sherrod, do your best to make the people responsible for this mess, the people who have taken our money and squandered our wealth in schemes that were so corrupted that the minute the light of day was focused on what they did, it all collapsed, just like that. These CEO’s, these titans of Wall Street, these financial wizards have burdened us with the rotten fruit of their incompetence and greed.

One thing that you could do, as a stipulation for bailing them out, is insist that the folks in charge of these failed financial institutions be barred from working in the financial industry in any capacity ever again. They should be treated just like we treat pedophiles; after all, they are tinkering with our children’s future that are, in some ways, just as devastating. If we can have laws that identify the most reviled criminal in order to protect the innocent, why should we not inflict the same sense of shame on these shadow criminals?

Please Sherrod, make me proud of you. Make me proud of the Democratic Party. At least bring this up to your colleagues. I know it would make those of us out here beyond the beltway feel that at the very least, someone has our back. After all, someone has to look out for the best interests of the people.

Very truly yours,



Christopher Green

:applause: K and R :kick:

I am very proud to have Mr. Brown as our state senator. He came to my High School when he was the youngest State Representative, and awed everyone! My sister wanted to marry him...hee hee!

"They should be treated just like we treat pedophiles; after all, they are tinkering with our children’s future that are, in some ways, just as devastating."
Love that line! I hope he responds to your letter.

I have no words, really...

K&R

:patriot:

for having Sherrod Brown as your rep. I should be so lucky!

...even though he's not my "official" Senator, he's one of my "honorary" because he represents me.

They banned Frank Lorenzo from ever having anything to do with the airline industry after he looted and bankrupted a few of them.

I write to Sherrod quite often and am always pleasantly surprised to get a response that doesn't seem to be computer-generated. :thumbsup:

Thr Plain Dealer and the Beacon Journal also.