Dear Colorado PLEO (pulic leaders and elected officials) aka Superdelegates:

I have lived and worked as a teacher in Denver for nearly 20 years. I

walked several precincts during a Denver City Council election five years

ago, trudged half-heartedly for Kerry in '04 and migrated to Greeley in '06

when it seemed as if Angie Paccione might defeat Marilyn Musgrave.

This year Barack Obama became my candidate early and I was a precinct

captain for him in Denver during the recent Colorado caucuses.

I am writing because in light of what occurred during the Colorado caucuses,

I fear your protracted neutrality will only harm efforts to mobilize the

party in-state during the fall. I am writing to advocate that you think

seriously about publicly expressing your preference in the Obama-Clinton

contest soon, and that there is but one candidate to whom you should

gravitate---Barack Obama.

I, for one, want to put the tired 25 years of mean politics at the national

level behind us. I want to erase the savagery and negativity not to mention

the gridlock of the Reagan years, the Clinton years and the Bush years in

one fell swoop.

If Colorado party leaders, in defiance of the clear wishes of the party faithful,

help deliver a brokered victory to Clinton in August, I am likely to sit out the fall.

Holding the wife of a two-term president with all the prerogatives of the

party behind her to worse than a draw speaks volumes to me about how

insightfully an Obama administration would manage the business of the

country; I believe the knock-out punch has already been delivered.

But, if you need more evidence, I beseech you not to wait till Easter.

Do not deliver Colorado's confidence or voice to men and women from

Vermont, or Michigan or Florida or Puerto Rico. Please speak loudly with

your voice on behalf of Obama at the head of our fall ticket.

Do not let the pol that resides within PLEO obliterate the people, who are constitutionally and rule-wise as well, superior to them both.