My friend, Mark Mykleby, who works in the Pentagon, Shared with me this personal letter to the editor he got published last week in his hometown paper, the Beaufort Gazette in South Carolina.

Common Cause, the largest citizens group in the us, did a study which showed that a letter to the editor was one of the most effective ways of influencing politicians.

Every time there was a favorable review, he'd write a letter to the editor which wouldn't get printed; he was doing whatever he could do.