It's been a long time since I've written a letter to an elected official. I live in a state where all the elected officials think entirely differently than I do, so I've told myself there's no use in communicating.
However, a recent news item changed my mind. The more I think about it, it's my duty as a citizen to speak up even if I think they will disagree.
After the Moore, Oklahoma, tornado one of our senators was interviewed about the possibility of having safe rooms built in schools. He said safe rooms can collapse.
This worried me. So I researched it. It seems there's a project run by the University of Texas that tests safe rooms and checks on safe rooms after tornados. They checked all the safe rooms in Moore and none of them collapsed.
So I'm going to write my senator and ask him if he will also check the truth of his statement and if he finds he was incorrect, make a public statement to that effect.
His earlier statement might have stopped people from building safe rooms. He is seen as an authority and people will believe him. So I think he owes it to his constituents to be accurate and I'm going to encourage him to do so.
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