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I am a resident of Louisiana.
Tomorrow, I will drop hard copies of this letter in the mail, but I've emailed it to the GOP office and also to Senator Cassidy's office today.
*sorry for the run-ons and so forth.

Dear LAGOP:
Your tone deaf condemnation and censure of Senator Cassidy is misguided and alienating.
As it turns out, remarking that he is without a party places him in a privileged arena if our state’s Republicans are choosing to categorically deny the Senator his

elected responsibility to listen to evidence at a trial and cast a vote appropriate to his conscience.
Senator Cassidy has the ability to muster the courage it takes to be truly honorable, and extend the thought and reasoning it takes to make tough choices regardless of

subversive pressure being applied.
Unlike yourselves, Senator Cassidy has the capacity to read a room. The room he had to read most likely felt cold and lonely. The room he had to read most likely felt suffocating, and fraught with dubious outcomes for himself personally.

But he persisted with honor, and he persisted with valor. He deserves respect for that.
Perhaps reading that room is something for which you should take a look at doing a bit more closely. The Republican Party will no doubt see some changes in the next years.

If you’d like to stay relevant and not become a relic of the past, you might recognize that you’re not doing yourself any favors by ignoring the tides of change. Modern Republicans and voters in general, even here in the deep South, are cognizant that you can maintain your

core values without encrusting yourself in a regime-like cess pool of unilateral thought and archaic, empty headed allegiance.
It takes no courage to gather in a group wielding pitchforks and torches to condemn a person who stood up alone and tried to do the right thing.

As tomorrow is the beginning of lent, I wish you success in sloughing off the fat of your self righteous indignation and bloviating, misguided choices in attempt to alienate an allegiant politician who has done nothing but represent his state, and his country with integrity.

Sincerely,

Jennifer XXXXXX
@SenBillCassidy

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