1. United States
2. Fla.
3. Letter

I want to start by acknowledging that I know your office is receiving my emails. Your response on May 8, 2025, advising me that you will not provide a detailed response because of my use of a third-party site, is disappointing but yet consistent with a desire to avoid accountability. I’ve been at the same address within your 11th district since 2017 and even used to sing in the choir at WOBC with your daughter-in-law and grandchildren. It is unpatriotic to discriminate against a different and more accessible route of contacting your office. I’ll start using your website when you start holding in-person town halls in District 11. I am writing to ask you to condemn the deployment of the national guard in Washington DC as an instance of gross abuse of the executive powers. Crime rates are low, not out-of-control, and there is not a reasonable cause for this expensive “big government” move. The President invoked section 740 of the DC home rule act to take over the Metropolitan Police, and nowhere in that section is the National Guard’s use mentioned. Further, the Posse Comitatus Act — which exists to preserve democracy and personal liberty as a constitutional safeguard — does not allow for this activation. Earlier this year, DC’s Mayor Bowser published results of a 9% decrease in area homeless thanks for efforts such as Project Reconnect, Front Door Navigation, Transforming Our Shelter System, Targeting Youth Homelessness, Permanent Housing, and the Peer Case Management Institute. If the President is willing to spend large amounts of funds on this violent undertaking, wouldn’t it be so much more effective to use the funds instead for these efforts that promote human dignity and help the homeless become productive citizens instead of just moving them from one place to another? DC did not ask for this. America did not ask for this. It is wasteful, inflammatory, unnecessary, and it reeks of aspiring authoritarian control. Please speak out for what is right — speak out against this illegal strongman violence.