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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cpm9ball, post: 1048800, member: 24633&quot;]This is the first time I&#039;ve seen this thread because I was offline for three weeks in the course of moving.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>While I applaud your effort, I feel that your letter comes across in a condescending manner, somewhat demanding and presumptuous.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>You must get rid of the &quot;otherwise known as&quot; garbage. You&#039;re not corresponding with someone from a remote tribe on Borneo. Use the &quot;KISS&quot; system, &quot;Keep It Simple Stupid&quot;! Our coins are the cent, nickel, dime, quarter dollar, half dollar and dollar. I doubt that there is a single congressional representative who doesn&#039;t know about them.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Your closing, &quot;Please respond accordingly&quot;, sounds too much like a demand rather than a plea for help. What do you propose to do if they don&#039;t respond? </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Just as important, you&#039;ve offered to provide Coin Talk as a forum for these discussions. Have you discussed this with Peter and the others? If you haven&#039;t, I think you should because you are giving the impression that they are endorsing your efforts. Furthermore, what makes you think that using this site, or any other for that matter, would be a better alternative to the CCAC? In previous discussions, here, there has never been a consensus of opinion about which designs would be best. We would be in the same &quot;boat&quot; as the CCAC, and llittle would be accomplished.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>You must realize that if you are going to have any chance of arousing interest in your ideas, you have to provide these representatives with alternative ideas rather than cite the length of time a portrait has been on a coin without change. Do you have a preference for allegorical designs? Do you think it&#039;s time to put some other dead president on them? You&#039;ve got to give them something concrete that will stick in their minds. Otherwise, you will likely receive a response to your correspondence thanking you for you concerns and it will be in &quot;File 13&quot; before a congressional aide can even get the free postage stamped on the return envelope.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I&#039;m not trying to put you down, Taylor, but there are many more things you should have considered before sending something like this to your representative.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Chris[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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