driftrider, just an observation: from reading these forums: it's a shame we can't express ourselves better. We have people that claim to be well versed in our Constitutional Rights and laws of our States but can't seem to spell correctly. How are we to affect laws? How are we to be taken seriously?
My ancestry is 95% Irish and last 3 generations are muddled at best. Grandfather married a French woman, then great-grandparents from Canary Isles off of the coast of Spain and my parents born in Cuba, I was born here in the good ol' U.S. of A. I spell , speak, write and read English better than 99.99% of the people I encounter, just the facts. How can you claim to represent Americans when you're not well versed in English!?
I played a lot of extremely competitive paintball in my day, when I wrote to sponsors to try and get their support, just the fact that I wrote well got my team attention because I was able to represent them appropriately.
Get mad at me, flame me, do what you want; it's cold, hard fact. When we write to our State Representatives and/or Senators please do so in proper fashion, we'll further our causes that much more. I'll get off my soapbox now, thanks to all that actually read and will take it to heart.