Dear Senator Corzine,
Thank you for representing us so well in the U.S. Senate. I'm writing to urge you to continue doing that, despite all the rumblings on the Garden State street about how you're being urged to abandon your Senate seat and run for governor of New Jersey. Most of the reports I've read say you're not interested, and I hope that's true because we really can't spare you in the Senate. For one thing, when our national budget is made up of supplemental after supplemental for urgent purposes such as war, we need someone in that august body who can not only orate but do the math. For another, we need someone in there who isn't beholden to anyone, and considering that you funded your own campaign, that'd be you.
The other day I was reading a biography of George Washington when I came across a line he wrote that I now send to you. It was after the American Revolution, but our nation was still a loose alliance, connected only by the Articles of Confederation. Many of the patriots who had led the way in 1776 were back in their home states and embroiled in politics there, leaving the federal level to fend for itself. This is what he wrote to one of them:
"Our political system may be compared to the mechanism of a clock...it answers no good purpose to keep the smaller wheels in order if the greater one which is the support and prime mover of the whole is neglected."
Thanks again for your service to this country, and please keep on keeping on in the Senate.
posted by Janet Dagley Dagley @12:09 PM
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