Frank Dodd is there to HELP our Nation. As are you. Do not make laws dance to please your friends.

a variant of my letter to Sen Murray, Sen Cantwell, and Rep. Jayapal. "DJ Trump, President. Dear Sir. I read where you want to end Dodd Frank and remove the rule that makes financial advisors do things only in the best interest of their clients. Am I hearing correctly? You want to erase legislation that was put in place to help avoid the practices that broke our economy - to help you friends. Friends who can't get loans. This looks like a blatant selling out of our country for cronies. Dodd Frank was put into place to stop the financial meltdown we went through from reoccurring. You want to allow that to happen again, so your particular friends can benefit, it seems. This is not how I wish my President to act. Please do all you can to maintain and strengthen laws like Dodd Frank, not weaken good laws to benefit select friends at our Nation's expense. I wish you and your family good health. GregRobin Smith"

End Dodd Frank - to help President's Friends? CRONIES

Dear Senator Murray. I read where Pres. DJ Trump wants to end Dodd Frank and remove the rule that makes financial advisors do things only in the best interest of their clients. Am I hearing correctly? President DJ Trump wants to erase legislation that was put in place to help avoid the practices that broke our economy - to help his friends. This looks like a blatant selling out of our country for cronies. Our President is selling out of all the things that make These United States a potentially great Nation. Please do all you can to bring this not surprisingly corrupt Administration to account before they tear apart any more of what we hold dear. Thank you for your work. GregRobin Smith

Hypocrisy is not a Congressional Right

Mr DJ Trump - President. Sir. Regarding your nominee for The Supreme Court, I encourage you to have a very public, balanced roundtable* as to why - despite the recent nomination of Merrick Garland and the subsequent denial of any hearing on him by the Republican Congress - your candidate should be given a more civil reception. You have claimed a mandate of 'doing things differently'. I would like the political reality explained to the world as to why President Obama's rightful nominee could not get vote from Congress, and now why yours will. Those who denied Judge Garland from getting a hearing should be made to account. They should have to explain how that did not violate their oaths of office. Your support of this roundtable would show how much of a gamechanger you could be. If there is no accounting, if it is just a matter of 'we don't have to explain our hypocrisy because we don't have to', then our political structure will be proven as 'more of the same' and be a great disappointment to all of us who want to see a different more responsible government in these United States. I wish you and your family good health. GregRobin Smith * A Roundtable would feature respected journalists, and members of Congress with perspective on US nominations to the Supreme Court and to the Nomination and Hearing procedures normally practiced.

Yay for Marco Rubio (I find it hard to believe I just wrote that)

Dear Senator Murray - I do not usually get my news from Senator Marco Rubio. However, when I saw that Sen. Rubio had stated that The State Department has been prevented from talking to Congress, I was shocked. And I was thankful to Sen. Rubio for making this public. If this is true, I find it hard to believe that it is legal. It certainly is not a good omen. Congress _must_ be given the best information possible to do their job. NOT being able to talk to another office of government is an attack on our way of governance. I encourage your efforts to fight this kind of crazy politics. DJ Trump is President, not CEO of a corporation. Information must flow and be able to be vetted for accuracy. Not allowing State to talk to Congress is like Congress not being able to access news sources, the Library of Congress, their phones or the Internet. Thank you for being a light in the darkness that has descended upon our Nation. My sincere wishes for the best of health for you, your family and staff. GregRobin Smith

You Say You Are An Environmentalist - Hooray!

Mr DJ Trump, President. Recently, in comments made during a signing, I heard you say, 'I am an environmentalist', and I am delighted to hear you say so. I look forward to immediate and decisive actions to back up this statement. * Reducing Carbon Emissions. * Reducing reliance on Oil (Oil Exports, Oil Exploration) and on Coal. * Increasing study and support of renewable energy sources (wind power, solar, tidal, thermal, solar power transmission from Space and from the Moon's Surface). * Increasing support of National Parks, Wilderness areas, and protection of sensitive environmental areas. I am looking forward to the acts, proofs, and decisions that you make next to show the world how much an an Environmentalist you are. I wish you and your family good health GregRobin Smith

A Bit more Long-Term Vision in Needed. Something that goes beyond our cut-off nose.

DJ Trump - President Sir. Business negotiations and Political Negotiations have similarities. However, the nuanced differences of Political Negotiation seem to plague you. Your Administration, by narrowly viewing the importance of how powerful you should appear, has decided that continuing the bluster of campaign is more important than the sober business of governance and international relations. Your Administration is telling our Press to 'shut up'. Your Press Secretary rants blatantly false facts rather than deal with Truth. Our Country is already moving in ways that insult our neighbors and friends (Mexico is the most recent injury we have inflicted) and I worry about the next loss, and the ones assuredly about to come. As other countries think about how to deal with us, they will learn we are more concerned, it seems, with our National Ego than with our National Interests in government by a great, informed, respectful and involved People. It is going to be much easier to right the course now, before our Ship of State grounds itself, then to pull ourselves off the Shoals of Trouble - especially when our Neighbors have little reason to come to our assistance. In addition to your vaunted skills as a Business Negotiator, you must somehow acquire the abilities of a Political Negotiator. Judging by the extreme failure of the Republican Congress to allow much in the way of any benefit to come from their majority the last several years, I do not think you will find the help you need in the current crowd you run with. Sir, look outside your current advisors for reasoned, informed, and collaborative-minded people to assist you better. Our Nation's success, and future, depends upon it. Your duty to These United States demands it. I wish you and your family good health.

Dear Senator Murray. I am very concerned about (probably) ALL of President D. J. Trump's appointments. From the Secretaries in his Cabinet to, eventually, his Supreme Court nominees. I am so very grateful that you and Senator Cantwell are there. Your proven record of progressive, considered and informed thought is a barrier against bluster and regressive policies. Please, dig in. Resist and block all nominees that you know are wrong for The United States of America. I trust your judgment. I do not think the current administration 'gets a pass'. We cannot just 'wait and see'. The rules of political war were established long ago, and until we can re-establish a respectful, civil government, we must deny normalizing this reactionary trend. We cannot let it gain a foothold in our way of thinking. Keep strong, and let me know what I can do (I write President Trump - one letter for each day he is in office. I march now. Tell me what else I can do.) Thank you. I wish you and your family, staff and friends all good health and safety. GregRobin Smith Seattle