Pushing that ol’ boulder up the mountain

I occasionally get emails from various groups that have managed to get my name on their rolls, for one reason or another. Most of these are requests to sign some petition or submit a pre-written letter via their website, all of which I imagine end up at the desk of some congressman’s intern and are promptly thrown away.

However, hope forever springs eternal and I often take the time to customize these missives in a self-serving attempt to spice things up and make my letter stand out from the rest.

As it turns out, my various national representatives from Pennsylvania aren’t too good in writing back. However, I have found one pen-pal in Senator Rick Santorum. Or his letter-writing robot. But either way, it’s pretty funny. Never did I think I’d spend my free time crafting letters to someone who, save for being a white male, is my complete opposite.

Unsurprisingly, ANWR and energy issues have been my topics of choice. My most recent letter was put in the mail today; if all goes well, I should hear back from him in a month or two. I wonder if I should request he send his letters in a brown paper wrapper, lest the mailman starts to get the wrong impression of me?

February 20 2006