I sent an email to Tom DeLay, third ranking Republican in the House of Representatives, today — I asked if he was planning on issuing a retraction and apology to the American people for misleading them by claiming that Federal marshalls went into Elian’s home without a warrant, when in fact, a warrant did exist. (I wish I could reproduce the email I sent, but you can’t email House Reps anymore without knowing their email addresses. There’s now a form page on the House website, and it forwards the message on for you.)
Below is the canned reply I received. I only reproduce it to point out that his office has a grammatical error in their stock reply to constituents — note the second sentence of the email.
Sad.
Received: from wodc7mr3.ffx.ops.us.uu.net by wodc7ps1.ffx.ops.us.uu.net with ESMTP (peer crosschecked as: wodc7mr3.ffx.ops.us.uu.net [192.48.96.19]) id QQimhw10052 for <mail02675@vpop0-alterdial.uu.net>; Mon, 24 Apr 2000 15:11:00 GMT From: tx22.ima.pub@mail.house.gov Received: from tx22iq.house.gov by wodc7mr3.ffx.ops.us.uu.net with ESMTP (peer crosschecked as: [143.231.99.131]) id QQimhw17488 for <jlevine@si.timeinc.com>; Mon, 24 Apr 2000 15:11:00 GMT Received: from mail pickup service by tx22iq.house.gov with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Mon, 24 Apr 2000 11:08:01 -0400 X-IQIMA: AUTO To: jlevine@si.timeinc.com Subject: Re: WriteRep Responses Message-ID: <00cb00108151840TX22IQ@tx22iq.house.gov> Date: 24 Apr 2000 11:08:01 -0400 X-UIDL: 3d5ab7f08f4c0932f5c730b584bcaf56 Status: U Thank you for your recent comments. I will carefully consider you input and get a response back to you. Also I wanted to let you know about my email newsletter available at my website http://tomdelay.house.gov. Sincerely, Tom DeLay Member of Congress