An Open Letter to Rick Graber

Dear Mr. Graber,

In a mailing dated June 15, 2006, you appealed for contributions to the Republican Party of Wisconsin.

You write:

Leftist organizations like MOVEON.ORG, the ACLU and EMILY'S LIST are pouring millions of dollars into the campaign coffers of Democrat candidates running for Congress.

Wisconsin is a battleground state for control of Congress in 2006.

If we don't act today... and do everything we can to defend our four Republican seats in Congress... then we risk handing the U.S. House to the most RADICALIZED ELEMENTS of the Democrat Party this November.

You continue:

Let's not forget the importance of defeating Jim Doyle this November too.

...Mark Green will bring honesty, openness, integrity and fiscal responsibility back to the Governor's Office.

I don't have a problem with any of that.

I do have a problem with the fact that your letter says ABSOLUTELY NOTHING about the U.S. Senate race.

ZERO. ZILCH. NADA.

What's with that?

Do you know that Herb Kohl is up for re-election?

Have you caught any of Kohl's dopey commercials that have been running on Wisconsin TV for months?

It might come as a surprise to you, but Wisconsin voters will be choosing a senator this November.

What's the story, Mr. Graber?

Are you already admitting defeat? Is that it?

Have you no confidence in Wisconsin voters?

This senate thing has moved beyond the annoying stage and become a case of negligence.

Simply put, the Republican Party of Wisconsin is betraying its members.

To be blunt, you're pissing off contributors.