[Dan Richardson]

Its upsetting that she could not attend an event, and it might be important to find out why she may have not came. But Governers and elected officials are people also. I understand that she has promoted first ( I have the video somewhere where she is presenting the HOT team an award or something ) but, there may have been something else that day that she had to deal with.

So I strongly encourage you just as some others, to be graciously proffesional when writing these letters, don't be insulting. Especially if what you are saying is true and she does not recall much about FIRST. You don't want stuck in her memory " Ohh those 1000 bratty kids who wrote me those nasty letters because I didn't come to their little competition. " That is an adverse reaction which would I would cautiously try to avoid.

Worse comes to worst you can always move to Florida. :-) Warmer :-) Winters lasts like 2 weeks :-) and Jeb Bush ( our governor ) stopped by to give a shout out :-)

Dan