I just received the following in an email from the campaign of Michael McMahon for Congress:
Dear Friends:
I write to ask for your support in my campaign for the U.S. House of Representatives for New York’s 13th Congressional District, which includes all of Staten Island and a portion of Brooklyn. I graduated from Farrell in 1975, and with your support we can make sure that this Congressional seat stays a Lion seat in 2008!
Mike McMahon and I went to the same high school (he graduated 13 years before me). Yes, I’ve seen his name emblazoned on signs throughout my neighborhood and others in this election season. Not knowing much else about him, I decided to go to his web site, MikeMcMahonForCongress.com, to find out.
A lot of it was political fluff, and nothing shook me good or bad, until I got to the Michael on Social Security page, which says:
Since its creation in 1935, Social Security has been the single most successful domestic program that our government has ever run…
Replacing our current Social Security system with privatized investment accounts is simply unacceptable, and I strongly oppose it.
That’s all it took to convince me not to support Mike McMahon. Why? Well, I wrote him a letter about it, and I share it with you below.