Where are the champions?
Guy T. Sturino
August 02, 2005
Due to what has been happening in the Senate and the recess appointment of John Bolton to the UN I had to let my Senators know what I was feeling and thinking. This is what I sent.
Dear Senator Allen and Senator Warner,
The Presidents’ appointment of John Bolton during the congressional recess seems to me to be not only a slap in the face of the Senate and “We the People,” but by my reading of the constitution is obviously illegal. Section 2. Paragraph 3. reads as follows:
The President shall have power to fill up all vacancies that may happen during the recess of the Senate, buy granting commissions which shall expire at the end of their next session.
Clearly, this vacancy did not happen during the recess of the Senate. This section of the constitution was obviously put in place to allow an office to continue functioning when an unexpected vacancy occurred during the Senates recess, not one that was left open and under consideration by the Senate. It would take an obvious self serving intent to override this section for any lawyer to argue differently.
Senator Warner, I have been watching the Senate proceedings carefully, and it is obvious to me that Senator Frist has gone out of his way to minimize your effectiveness because you succeeded in blocking his drive to remove the filibuster. Even though I don’t always agree with your positions, I was disgusted beyond words as I watched it happen. Quite frankly I have been disgusted by much of what the senate has done in the past week. It appears to me that neither the Senate nor the President gives as much as a hand full of salt for “We the People.”
The reason for this letter is two fold. First, I want you to know that the sense on the street today is that the United States has the best Senate money can buy, and a President who speaks and acts much more dictatorial than presidential. Second, “We the People” are in desperate need of a greater number of champions in both houses of congress who have not only read, but believe in the Preamble of the Constitution.
Everything that follows in that document is meant to establish how those goals can be achieved. Deliberate misinterpretation of the constitution so as to provide for the good of a few over the good of the many is absolutely unacceptable.
It is my hope that my Senators of Virginia will prove to be proud examples of elected servants of “We the People,” and work to turn the tide which seems to be flowing fast and hard against us.
Most Respectfully,
Guy T. Sturino
You are welcome to use any or all of this to write to your Senators.
Dear Senator Allen and Senator Warner,
The Presidents’ appointment of John Bolton during the congressional recess seems to me to be not only a slap in the face of the Senate and “We the People,” but by my reading of the constitution is obviously illegal. Section 2. Paragraph 3. reads as follows:
The President shall have power to fill up all vacancies that may happen during the recess of the Senate, buy granting commissions which shall expire at the end of their next session.
Clearly, this vacancy did not happen during the recess of the Senate. This section of the constitution was obviously put in place to allow an office to continue functioning when an unexpected vacancy occurred during the Senates recess, not one that was left open and under consideration by the Senate. It would take an obvious self serving intent to override this section for any lawyer to argue differently.
Senator Warner, I have been watching the Senate proceedings carefully, and it is obvious to me that Senator Frist has gone out of his way to minimize your effectiveness because you succeeded in blocking his drive to remove the filibuster. Even though I don’t always agree with your positions, I was disgusted beyond words as I watched it happen. Quite frankly I have been disgusted by much of what the senate has done in the past week. It appears to me that neither the Senate nor the President gives as much as a hand full of salt for “We the People.”
The reason for this letter is two fold. First, I want you to know that the sense on the street today is that the United States has the best Senate money can buy, and a President who speaks and acts much more dictatorial than presidential. Second, “We the People” are in desperate need of a greater number of champions in both houses of congress who have not only read, but believe in the Preamble of the Constitution.
Everything that follows in that document is meant to establish how those goals can be achieved. Deliberate misinterpretation of the constitution so as to provide for the good of a few over the good of the many is absolutely unacceptable.
It is my hope that my Senators of Virginia will prove to be proud examples of elected servants of “We the People,” and work to turn the tide which seems to be flowing fast and hard against us.
Most Respectfully,
Guy T. Sturino
You are welcome to use any or all of this to write to your Senators.
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