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Mr. President -Elect,

My email is not so much a question, more a word of congratulations to you and this historic campaign. Since I decided to support you as president I’ve followed this race closer than I’ve ever followed anything in the news in my Adult life. I’ve voted in the presidential elections twice before, and never been more excited about a campaign or an opportunity to vote and volunteer for a candidate.

Sir, your campaign has meant more to me and proved more to me than anything this country has done in my lifetime. Your historic campaign and message of hope and change comes at a time when this country desperately needs both of those things in large amounts. Your words have inspired a new generation of political minds and hearts in this country and with a resounding vote the new America has told the old America to take a backseat. I urge you now only to follow through on all of these policies and promises you have promised.

This country needs a health care plan, this country needs a more streamlined 21st century market, this country needs to be the leader in the new global economy not a follower and not someone that the rest of the world looks at like the crazy racist cousin. I’m glad that your candidacy managed to break that perception. I consider the racially charged past of this country a blemish on our record of human rights and democracy. and the last time we took a step at admitting we were wrong on race (the sixties) creativity burst out from all directions.

I urge you to be the agent of change that I have assured so many of my family and friends that you are. I urge you to stand up to the special interests in Washington and tell them that the American people come first. Stop the corruption and lobbyists from running our country further into the ground. I’ll leave you with the words of someone much smarter than me, because it’s always good to close with a quote since someone has always expressed it more eloquently than I can.

“Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people look at that tree or that flower you planted, you’re there. It doesn’t matter what you do … so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that’s like you after you take your hands away. The difference between the man who just cuts lawns and a real gardener is in the touching, he said. The lawn-cutter might just as well not have been there at all; the gardener will be there a lifetime”

–Ray Bradbury

Thanks for your time in reading this letter sir and thanks for your dedication to making this country a better place to live.

Sincerely,
Ryan Hutto

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