I recently sent my Senator, Dianne Feinstein, an email regarding oil drilling and energy in our local area. Here is the full text of the email reply I received today from her office:
“Dear Mr. Mason:
Letter begins here.
Sincerely yours,
Dianne Feinstein
United States Senator”
Thanks, Dianne. You can expect the same effort from me at the voting booth during your next Senate election campaign.
Looks like a cut and paste failure.
Then again, I hated the cut and paste answers they give when you do write so it is a no win situation.
Oh, man. Looks like the kind of dumb mistakes I made as a college intern at a certain state assemblywoman’s office. Definitely a cut and paste failure – or maybe just a premature click-send mistake, depending on the issue. I remember quite a few times where we had a number of letters that addressed things for which we had no form letter; for those, we actually (gasp!) had to research it and determine our position. Oh, college days …
I prefer that to the usual condescending obnoxious replies you get from her office. Gad. I’ve given up writing to her because the responses made me madder than the issues I wrote her about in the first place.