To the editor:

Previously, Reps. Susan Donovan and June Speakman took a tip from “one of your readers” to be more forthcoming with all their constituents, not just the elect who receive mail invitations to cozy progressive mixers around town. Not only did they fail to thank Mr. Pete Hewett by name for this pioneering political strategy (lest they publicly recognize any influence from the BCCC), Donovan and Speakman also ignored Hewett’s challenge to their Prom-Night Prep-Course bill, hoping to bedazzle readers instead with their next top legislative priority: Forget limitations on executive emergency powers — we gotta make all lawn care devices in R.I. zero-emission by 2027!

I’m shocked to hear such progressive reps cracking down on undocumented non-citizens, the gas-guzzlers, over something as trivial as their diet. When I, as an amateur demographer, asked Donovan and Speakman at a Rogers Free coffee-klatsch how many illegals they served in their districts by supporting the Student Success Act (a bill which their avowed commitment to transparency forbade them publicize), they told me, “We don’t know how many there are;” and they justified rewarding in-state tuition to immigration criminals by declaring, “they’re here now.”

It’s unlike them, then, to insist that the state has the resources, and moreover, the right, to oust a population of untold numbers that also works in landscaping without papers.

This new bill of theirs evokes heartrending scenes of jackbooted DEM officers irrupting into neighborhood tool sheds; dragging off persecuted weed-whackers and hedge-trimmers into their eight-cylinder pickups, still idling outside; and spiriting away the poor unfortunates to detention centers (read: scrapyards). Presumably, Donovan and Speakman also believe that, rather than turn a blind eye, the state should prohibitively fine those who continue to employ these industrious non-citizens who only want to work. Clemency, ladies — they’re here now!

On the model of Providence Mayor Elorza, perhaps another mayor will have the moral courage to declare his city a gas-power sanctuary. Even if the State House were optimized as a wind farm, fossil fuels would still have to be processed somewhere to recharge the batteries for Donovan and Speakman’s so-called “zero-emission” devices.

“Transparency” has got to mean more than a clear view of Rhode Island’s Democrat hivemind carrying out its wretched agenda unchecked. Of course, being merely another “one of your readers,” I don't expect a dialogue with my representatives; I haven’t insulted enough of their close personal activist friends (in this letter) to merit a reply. But I do look forward to hearing more from them; until November, that is, after which time pangs of accountability will dwindle precipitously throughout their party.

This new bill suggests that the state can deport all gas-powered leaf-blowers within less than five years — but not illegals. Clearly, Donovan and Speakman are against blowers because they take voters to be of the opposite persuasion.

Zachary Cooper
48A Sherman Ave.