This is more or less a spur of the moment decision to change direction and share a couple of letters that I’ve sent to my senator, Sen. Joshua Hawley. I’m hoping that it will provide me some catharsis, because I am absolutely livid with that A-Hole.
It all began when I came across an article in the Washington Post where Hawley (turns out mendaciously) claims in a Tweet that “Antifa scumbags” came to his house in Vienna, VA to threaten his wife, screamed threats, vandalized and tried to pound open the door. (That house in Vienna is currently the only home he has. He used his sister’s address in the Ozarks to claim Missouri residence.)
Here’s Hawley’s lying Tweet:
Tonight while I was in Missouri, Antifa scumbags came to our place in DC and threatened my wife and newborn daughter, who can’t travel. They screamed threats, vandalized, and tried to pound open our door. Let me be clear: My family & I will not be intimidated by leftwing violence
— Josh Hawley (@HawleyMO) January 5, 2021
For those that can’t access Twitter:
Tonight while I was in Missouri, Antifa scumbags came to our place in DC and threatened my wife and newborn daughter, who can’t travel. They screamed threats, vandalized, and tried to pound open our door. Let me be clear: My family & I will not be intimidated by leftwing violence
But if you read the WaPo article, you’ll learn it was a peaceful vigil. In fact the group (with NO ties to Antifa) fortunately took a 50+ minute video of their visit:
They don’t arrive at Hawley’s house on Desale St. until around the 24:00 mark. As near as I can make out (the CC isn’t the best) their peaceful vigil consisted of lighting votive candles, chanting, singing, praying and leaving a copy of our Constitution on the front porch.
Most of their peaceful vigil was monitored by the local police. Officer Juan Vazquez told the Associated Press that when police arrived, they found that the “people were peaceful. Officers are only allowed to put in the report what they see,” Vazquez told The Washington Post. “We can’t get warrants on something we didn’t see.”
On Wednesday when Hawley continued to say he was going to object to the Pennsylvania Electoral College vote count – even after Trumpkin rioters had stormed and vandalized our Capitol – I had enough. I sat down and wrote him a “sternly worded letter”. And I followed up on Thursday with another after Hawley was roundly rebuked for his actions – even by fellow Republicans.
(It took a couple times to FAX the letters to his DC office because it kept getting a busy signal – but mine eventually made it through. And I included CCs to his Kansas City office. Those went through easy-peasy.)
Here are my letters – the first on Wednesday evening (although I’m compressing the formatting for space considerations):
Wednesday, January 6, 2021
Senator Joshua David Hawley
United States Senator for Missouri
212 Russell Senate Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20510
RE: SHAME ON YOU! SHAME ON YOU! SHAME ON YOU!
Sen. Joshua David Hawley:
Unlike your recent entirely mendacious claim that:
“Antifa scumbags came to our place in DC and threatened my wife and newborn daughter, who can’t travel. They screamed threats, vandalized, and tried to pound open our door. Let me be clear: My family & I will not be intimidated by leftwing violence” …
Today your compatriots – Proud Boys, White Supremacists, Boogaloo Bois, Neo-Nazis and other radical right-wing terrorists – actually did commit violence against the People’s House – our nation’s Capitol.
Fortunately, as former FBI Director James Comey said: “Lordy, I hope there are tapes” – there ARE tapes documenting the peaceful vigil at your Vienna, VA home. The peaceful vigil consisted of a small group who lit votive candles, sang songs, chanted, prayed and left a copy of our Constitution on your doorstep. All actions protected by our First Amendment rights!
Unlike your Proud Boys, White Supremacists, Boogaloo Bois, Neo-Nazis and other radical right-wing terrorist cohorts who quite literally, to use your very own words: “Screamed threats, vandalized, and tried to pound open the door” of our nation’s Capitol.
To use your very own words again: Let me be clear, true American Patriots will NOT be intimidated by right-wing violence.
This sad and frightening display of Trumpkin scumbags was the product of Trump’s four-years of hate-mongering efforts to create chaos, divide our nation and incite violence. (Again, let me be clear: LORDY, THERE ARE PLENTY of TAPES DOCUMENTING Trump DOING JUST THAT!)
And yet you, in hopes of hitching your wagon to these Trumpkin scumbags in an effort to promote your own hope of launching a presidential bid, have openly announced your intention to contest the results of our free, fair, secure election administered according to the United States Constitution.
Given that there was no irregularity or evidence of election fraud that would justify such an action, it becomes clear that you are simply pandering to the republican party’s right-wing base, which has obviously lost touch with reality and fealty to our Constitution.
Your engagement in the attempted literal subversion of our democracy – whether called sedition, coup, anti-democratic putsch or something else – simply because you did not like the results clearly violates your oath of office. You should, at the minimum, face ethics charges and expulsion.
Our national elections of 2020 have occurred. The people have spoken. Multiple recounts and audits of recounts have been conducted. Legal challenges have been addressed by the courts. Trump et al have lost at least 60 of those lawsuits. And in those legal challenges over 90 judges – appointed by both Democrats and republicans – have ruled against Trump’s unfounded lawsuits. Governors have certified the results. And the Electoral College has voted.
The time for questioning the results has passed; the time for the formal counting of the Electoral College votes, as prescribed in the Constitution and statute, has arrived.
It was a free, fair, secure election administered according to the United States Constitution. It’s well past time for you to do your constitutional duty and standdown.
In Deep Sorrow for Our Country, Aided & Abetted by Your Shameful Actions,
[Real Name]
Actual Missouri Citizen
PS: If you wonder why my salutation is not formatted, as I usually do for other Senators, as:
“The Honorable …”
It’s simply because I find NONE of your actions in this matter to be “Honorable”.
Here’s my second letter sent on Thursday after Hawley is widely chastised for his actions:
Thursday, January 7, 2021
Senator Joshua David Hawley
United States Senator for Missouri
212 Russell Senate Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20510
RE: Your Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad, Rotten Day
Sen. Joshua David Hawley:
Josh (I hope you don’t mind me calling you by your Christian name – I like to call ALL my employees by their given first name) sorry to learn you have had such a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad, rotten day. (Not that you haven’t earned it – you surely have!)
The dilemma is where to start listing all the events of the day that your seditious actions have produced.
Let’s begin with Missouri’s former Senator, John C. Danforth, assessment of you:
“Supporting Josh and trying so hard to get him elected to the Senate was the worst mistake I ever made in my life.”
(WOW – from your mentor! That’s gonna leave a mark, isn’t it Josh?)
Then there was the Lincoln Project video (comprised of your fellow Republicans) who accused you of Sedition:
Abe sees you @HawleyMO. #SeditionHasConsequences pic.twitter.com/EZI9vhRDVY
— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) January 6, 2021
It’s clear you backed the wrong horse given that Trump’s lawyer for the Pennsylvania Electoral College vote case (Attorney Jerome M. Marcus for the state of Pennsylvania, the same one YOU used to object to the Electoral College certification) resigned today with these words:
“The undersigned respectfully requests leave of this court to withdraw as counsel … inasmuch as the client has used the lawyer’s services to perpetrate a crime and the client insists upon taking action that the lawyer considers repugnant and with which the lawyer has a fundamental disagreement.”
https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.paed.577781/gov.uscourts.paed.577781.9.0.pdf
Could it possibly get worse for you, Josh?
Sadly for you, HELL YES, it can get worse!
We learned today that the publisher Simon & Schuster, based on your seditious actions, has cancelled your lucrative book deal:
“We did not come to this decision lightly. As a publisher it will always be our mission to amplify a variety of voices and viewpoints: at the same time we take seriously our larger public responsibility as citizens, and cannot support Senator Hawley after his role in what became a dangerous threat to our democracy and freedom.”
Why even your old Rockhurst High School debate partner calls you the:
“WORST PERSON HE’S EVER MET”
my husband was briefly Josh Hawley’s debate partner in high school and has long, since Hawley first ran for Missouri AG, described him as the worst person he’s ever met.
— laura olin (@lauraolin) January 7, 2021
Fortunately for you I was able to find a bright spot to help you out.
Turns out that Tony, Emmy, Grammy and Pulitzer Prize winner Lin-Manuel Miranda has written a song that is just perfect for you!
“Never Gonna Be President Now”
Josh, I’m (mildly) sorry you’ve had such a Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad, Rotten Day. Then again – you earned it!
With All Due Respect That You Deserve,
[REAL NAME]
Actual Missouri Resident
13 Responses to “Friday: Letters to My Senator – Joshua Hawley”
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Nameless, WELL DONE! Two very well written, and put together letters to the jackass! I only hope that HE gets to see them, as I expect they will be screened by staffers, and not passed on. That possibility did not stop me from writing the “You’re fired!” post cards to Trump.
He, and Cruz, need to be removed from the senate.
In truth, in a different era for Trump, Hawley, Cruz & quite a few more we’d be talking the Gallows that the Trumpkins so brazenly constructed on our Capitol Grounds.
Please note: I am NOT endorsing that action. I’m simply noting that in a different era it might well have come to pass.
I’ll leave it to you to judge whether it would be a good or bad, just or unjust outcome.
I am against the death penalty, but understand that in a different era that could easily be the “cure” to such dastardliness, aka: acting like a scumbag! That is my rational response, mediated by my forebrain. My emotional, amygdala mediated, response is to stone the bastard to near death, and then hang him!
The depths of depravity some of our elected officials can stoop to, in the pursuit of power, is virtually unbelievable!
When the current “shit hole” administration is gone, he needs to be brought up on charges of incitement to rioting, along with Rudy and Don Jr.. that is much too mild a charge for Don Jr.’s sperm donor!
Nicely done, Nameless.
Based on my shame six years ago when Colorado voters preferred Cory Gardner to Mark Udall, for hevan’s sake,
I can certainlyunderstand any shame you might feel that yours referred this – specomen – to Claire McCaskill. But it wasn’t my fault then, and it isn’t your fault now.
I’m actually grateful he exposed himself so thoroughly. That will serve us in good stead if this doesn’t succeed in beating the ambition out of him. Thanks for sharing!
Nameless, I’m very much impressed with both of your letters to this Trump clone (who sadly was dealt a handful of working brain cells which could make him more dangerous than his mentor).
Your first letter is an example of constraint, eloquence and factuality, as becomes a Democrat. I’m glad to hear that writing and sending it was as much for your own benefit as a catharsis as it was to ours. You may have had Hawley’s benefit in mind too but you probably thought it wouldn’t pass the shredder test.
Your second letter is equally marvellous but written more for your and our benefit than Hawley’s and I thank you for it. Hawley will not benefit from anything you write to him; those few brain cells do not communicate with the reality outside his skull and are fully occupied with keeping the ego afloat in this narcissist.
Thanks for writing and publishing your letters, Nameless. I hope you feel a bit better now too.
Very well done!
Excellent post, and a nicely written letter too.
“Never Gonna Be President Now” Amen!
Thank you, Nameless for your post.
I could not have said it better!
Great post/letters.
Your letters speak honest precise words of all that this bas*ard has done/created since the election.
He should be stripped from his post for all that he’s done. That includes all of his colleague who backed his actions too.
I have been signing all sorts of petitions stating that tRump, plus all of these rotten R’s who were fighting against the election results will be punished/penalized for their multiple criminal acts.
I hope that with all that has happened this time around. that many more people wake up and see the real side of these flipping fools and definitely never ever vote or back them politically ever again.
Our country has suffered way too much these past 4 years. Shameful it has gone ever deeper down with what happened on June 6, 2021.
Thanks Nameless
Thank you Nameless for your speaking truth to power in these turbulent times! Rep. Cori Bush is leading an effort to hold those in both houses of Congress who dishonored their oaths of office accountable. Me, I was surprised to learn my rep. was honoring his oath of office instead of joining in the effort to object to the people’s choices. Unfortunately, this decision was also for partisan reasons rather than anything resembling protecting the constitution, as their original statement makes clear:https://massie.house.gov/news/email/show.aspx?ID=Z5MPA3CVK5FYZQ3KBYQIDSAWB4
having lived in Missouri for a while…it is one scary state especially outside of St. Louis….Hawley is awful….
GREAT JOB! I’m proud of you! Shall we make bets on whether or not you hear back?
Excellent letter that you wrote to Scumbag Hawley. Makes me feel better that here in Georgia we successfully flipped BOTH Senate seats and got rid of two Rethuglicans who didn’t give a rat’s arse about their constituents. The races were close, but the Dems won! At least you’ll have an opportunity to vote Hawley’s worthless butt out of Congress in 2024 – unless you find a legal way to get rid of him before then.
They were close, yes. But both ended up outside the statutory recount territory. Good job, Georgia !!!