take19 - TAKEN!!!

Don't you hate when you dash off an email only to realize seconds later that you just sent something embarrassing to the wrong person? It happens to the best of us, including, apparently, Sue Kelly, who sent this letter to someone who had contacted Sue about her disturbing vote to cut $12.7 billion from federal student loans.

From: "Rep. Sue Kelly"
To: xyz@abc.com
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 10:04:22 -0500
Subject: Responding to your message

February 16, 2006

Dear Mr. X:

Thank you for contacting me with your support for protecting our
2nd Amendment rights.

I share your strong support for our rights under the 2nd
Amendment. We both know that the answer to violence in our
society will not be found through the expansion of firearms laws.
It's a bigger problem than that, and it's inappropriate for the issue
to be oversimplified by an exclusive focus on new regulations,
especially those which may fail to acknowledge our Constitutional
rights.

Since coming to Congress, I have consistently supported
legislation to protect the rights of law-abiding American's to bear
arms. H.R. 47, the Citizens' Self-Defense Act, effectively
reiterates that Constitutional privilege and is currently pending in
the House Committee on Judiciary. Please know that I will keep
our strong, mutual thoughts in mind if this measure comes before
me on the House floor for a vote. Thanks again for contacting me.

Sincerely,

Sue Kelly
Member of Congress

As it turns out, this particular constituent is in favor of stronger gun control laws, so Sue's accidental email was particularly enlightening. But it's just another example of how Sue says different things to different people. Perhaps Sue has too much on her plate. It must be all that non-campaigning -- like the eight press releases she issued this past week -- that her spokesman says she's been doing.