Dear Senator Franken,
I met you at the Reagan National Aiport over Memorial Day Weekend when our flight to Minneapolis was delayed for several hours. I would like to take this opportunity to again express to you how impressed I have been with you and how proud I am to have helped vote you into office and to be able to call you my Senator. Every time I have seen you in a Congressional hearing or committee meeting I have been struck by how thoroughly you research the topic, and how resolutely you stick to your opinions and your morals.
It is with great reluctance that I have decided to switch my residency from Minnesota to DC. I have now lived in DC for two years, and have decided to stay for at least one more year. I confess that a large part of my reluctance to switch is because I will be very disappointed to lose you as my Senator. You are a great voice for level-headed resolution to stick to what one believes in, and you do Minnesota incredibly proud.
As you know, DC residents effectively have no representation -- though I have great respect for Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton, she does not have the level of power to represent her constituents that is afforded to every other member of Congress has. I hope that you will raise your voice as an ally to the residents of DC who have no representation.
Again, I thank you for your service to the residents of Minnesota. Keep up the good work, and keep sticking to your morals!
All the best,
Inez Steigerwald
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