Note: I'm the author of the book,Barack Obama: This Improbable Quest, but I'm not part of the Obama campaign.

My letter to the editor appears in the New York Times today,  and I've recently had letters published in the Chicago Tribune, and U.S News and World Report.

So I thought I'd offer my suggestions on how to write a letter to the editor and get it published.

This is my very real letter to the Editor.
Don't laugh it is not funny
Dear New Yorker editor and staff,

I'm writing this to say thanks!  Thanks for making it hard (and darn near impossible) for me to wear my natural hair to a job interview (for fear that I will be seen as an angry black woman).

More after the jump.

I recently wrote a letter to New York Sun Times in response to an article they had written about Anton Scalia's position on religion.  The letter was published and I am very happy with it as it appears in print. I figured that a diary here would be a good place to further expand on what I have written. The letter is included in full below followed by further analysis on my part.'Scalia Decries Drift of Court Over Religion'

Hello, Kossoids and Kossites,

I didn't expect this letter to the editor to get published, but here it is, in my local paper, the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal. It's a little thin as far as city newspapers go, but then again, I'm a big-city Yankee. What do I know?

Letter below the fold:

First, I have to say that Barack Obama has already won the Democratic nomination and is very well on his way to becoming our next president.  

This is exciting not because Obama will replace Bush but it will be the end of the age of conservatism that has dominated both parties (i.e. Zell Miller, Joe Lieberman and the DLC gang).

What does that mean for us, down here in the local municipalities and school departments?

I am working on a letter to the editor.  I would love feedback and input before I send it in.

Rep. Wexler Wants Cheney Impeachment Hearings

copyright © 2007 Betsy L. Angert.  BeThink.org

May I offer my sincerest gratitude to Representatives, Robert Wexler, Luis Gutierrez, and Tammy Baldwin.  These glorious members of the House Judiciary Committee, recently raised the volume on the issue of impeachment for Vice President Cheney.  The three invite us, the average citizen, to join them.  Please express your distress; sign the petition.  Call for Hearings. Without you the Vice President will continue to avoid an official and necessary censure.

Technically it's not a letter to the editor.  It's what the Minneapolis Star Tribune calls a "Netlet" or website only LTE.  I'll have to check the print edition of the paper today just to make sure I'm not incorrect.

I sent it in last week after reading about Senator Mel Martinez's speech about how the Webb Amendment demeans our troops.

Video of the speech is available at the link.

The letter follows below.