by Summer D Clemenson | Mar 26, 2025 | Letters to My Representatives, Opinions
Dear Representative, The other night I saw an interview with Howard Ludnick, our nation’s commerce secretary, where he believes that if his mother-in-law didn’t get her social security check that she would not complain, but if a person committing fraud, didn’t get...
by Summer D Clemenson | Mar 26, 2025 | Letters to My Representatives, Opinions
Dear Representative, I am writing in regards to a Yemen airstrike fiasco that should never have happened. In an open chat, on an unsecured platform, Pete Hegseth, JD Vance, Mike Waltz, Marco Rubio, Tulsi Gabbard, John Ratcliffe other high ranking officials and Jeffrey...
by Summer D Clemenson | Mar 25, 2025 | Letters to My Representatives, Opinions
Dear Representative, I am writing regarding a post I saw about a budget proposal that includes the highest tax increase in Washington State history. The writer of this post believes that because of record breaking spending, we are consistently spending more money than...
by Summer D Clemenson | Mar 18, 2025 | Letters to My Representatives, Opinions
Dear Representative, My argument for FEMA is based on my very limited trauma response training and my limited but, in my opinion, larger experiences with trauma. When your group has undergone a traumatic experience, they may be in shock, they may be confused, they may...
by Summer D Clemenson | Mar 17, 2025 | Letters to My Representatives, Opinions
Dear Representative, I have been waiting patiently to hear of the reinstatement of the Inspectors Generals that Trump fired the first week of his term. It was a shock to hear about but it has become a greater shock that you have done nothing to fix this situation. I...
by Summer D Clemenson | Mar 13, 2025 | Letters to My Representatives, Opinions
Dear Representative, I am very concerned that am hearing conflicting messages regarding Social Security, Medicaid and Medicare. As a disabled person I rely on two of these programs. I know many people who also rely on these programs. My wife, Karen G Clemenson, is a...
by Summer D Clemenson | Mar 5, 2025 | Cancer, Opinions, Politics, Prayers & Thanksgiving, Queer Community
Someone asked me, today, if I thought all people that supported 47 were a certain kind of people. They used an acronym that I don’t know and that Google doesn’t know so I couldn’t answer their question. They were responding to a post that was actually a rough draft...
by Summer D Clemenson | Mar 1, 2025 | Opinions, Politics, Prayers & Thanksgiving, Queer Community
I want to confess to you that I am very human. That even though I am a Jesus Follower and I have been all of my life and I have seen Him do amazing things that I am still afraid. I wake up every day and thank Him for my blessings, because I am a blessed woman, and I...
by Summer D Clemenson | Feb 18, 2025 | Letters to My Representatives, Opinions
Dear Representative, I am very concerned about our national debt and the stress that is on my family and working families like mine. I know that Trump and the republicans are going to want to extend the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act from 2017 that is about to expire but I am...
by Summer D Clemenson | Feb 18, 2025 | Poetry, Politics, Prayers & Thanksgiving
It is hard to think with my human mind Sometimes my spirit is on fire And I can’t imagine how to move The direct path is hard to see ~ Those who live in the spirit Cannot be judged They cannot be understood By those who live in the flesh ~ It is only God that knows...
by Summer D Clemenson | Feb 16, 2025 | Opinions, Politics, Prayers & Thanksgiving
My heart hurts so much for the persecution that people have been going through and are going through at the hands of people proclaiming to be christians. White people. I used to be one of them, by proxy, but luckily for me, one day, God spoke to me and said, “It’s...
by Summer D Clemenson | Feb 10, 2025 | Letters to My Representatives, Opinions
Dear Representative, When I first heard about the president’s executive order regarding DEI, I felt it was just another phrase for affirmative action and being married to a black woman, that believed we were far enough evolved to not need this anymore, I...
by Summer D Clemenson | Feb 6, 2025 | Letters to My Representatives, Opinions
Dear Representative, Don’t let Trump take away money from farmers. The Federal Government needs to keep its word to small family farms and ranches. Our government needs to provide the money they promised they would provide for conservation efforts, improve...
by Summer D Clemenson | Feb 1, 2025 | Letters to My Representatives, Opinions
1—— Regarding DOGE Dear Representative, Please remove Elon Musk and his team from their position in Trump’s cabinet. The fact that they have been caught installing hard drives in the Office of Personnel Management, the Treasury Department, General Services...
by Summer D Clemenson | Jan 31, 2025 | Letters to My Representatives, Opinions
Dear Representative, I am writing to ask you to work with your colleagues with potential changes to the constitution. These following changes, I believe are imperative to our safety and mental well-being as a country: Candidates running for president cannot be...
by Summer D Clemenson | Jan 31, 2025 | Opinions, Poetry, Politics
Wednesday January 29, 2025 probably seemed like any other night Until Headline News screamed across the television screen in bright red letters An American Airlines jet and a military Black Hawk doing an annual night proficiency training flight had collided ~ 60...
by Summer D Clemenson | Jan 29, 2025 | Letters to My Representatives, Opinions
Dear Representative, I am writing to encourage you to show Trump that although he is the President, the President is not above the law. I am not sure why he was allowed to pardon all the insurrectionists that were found guilty of Federal crimes, especially those who...
by Summer D Clemenson | Jan 23, 2025 | Opinions, Poetry, Politics
Things we have never seen before have happened at his hand He has encouraged us to give way to violence and given control to white supremacist after they had been taught to be quiet ~ On January 6, 2021 our United States Capitol Building was attacked by a mob of over...