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Open Letter to Albert Gore, Jr. Run! Gore Run!

25 November, 2011

Friday, November 25, 2011

Open Letter to Former Vice President and Fellow Tennessean Al Gore, Jr. :

My name is Sylvia T. Garner-Giordano. I am a Tennessean. I am a thirty-nine year old divorcee with three wonderful children and I am terrified for their future. I am writing to you to beg you to run for the Presidency of the United States in 2012. Issues like The Patriot Act, torture, the decrease in civil liberties since 9/11, debilitating poverty, hate crimes against Muslim-Americans, the still horrible situation in New Orleans post Hurricane Katrina, the situation with legalities of the detainees at Guantanamo Bay, the over-looking of the cases of so-called, by some, political prisoners still in our jails since the civil rights era, the disproportionate number of African-American males in prisons, the building of detainee camps in places like Texas, the mismanagement of funds in Social Security and Medicare programs, the issues facing the Latino community and legalization, and the still horrible depletion of funds, resources and the decline of the educational system in The United States keeps me up at night.

The last election cycle produced a myriad of candidates and they all made their promises on the aforementioned issues; but many of these issues have not yet been addressed or resolved. I have confidence that you have not only the resources and connections to make a real case for these issues and the wherewithal to make a real difference in this country. You can win Mr. Gore. Run. Do it for me and my post high school eldest son who doesn’t see his future, my daughter who hopes to be college bound and my youngest son who is receiving an elementary education in a system that it failing its students. Tennessee just increased the cost of a college education and the poverty in this country is on the rise. While some communities are, I am sad to say, familiar with this condition, new faces are being hit hard with the economics of the past 11 years as represented by the Occupy movements all over the United States. It is a shame that their voices were not heard before; but it is better late than never.

So, again, Mr. Gore, I- and I am sure that I am not alone in my thinking - that you are just the man for the job to clean up the mess that has been made of the economy, repealing The Patriot Act, restoring our higher moral values on torture, speaking out against hate crimes, creating an inclusive attitude toward the victims of natural disasters in the Gulf Coast region, detangling the legal issues of the Guantanamo Bay detainees, addressing the cases up or down on the of prisoners from groups during the civil rights era, getting at the root causes for the disproportionate number of Black men in prisons, keeping the governments hands off programs like Social Security and Medicaid that people have worked and paid for the whole of their working careers to have at retirement, immigration and the Latino community, and courageously restructuring the educational system. You have to run. We all need you now.

-Sylvia T. Garner-Giordano

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