"I have read with great interest and sadness the full text of the invocation that you gave at the recent Outagamie County Lincoln Day Dinner. As a faithful member of the United Methodist Church for over 55 years and a life long tax-paying citizen of the State of Wisconsin, it is difficult for me to express how disappointed I am in your use of divisive and spiteful language.

"I am one of the 40% of people who did not vote for you in the past election but that does not exclude me from being represented by you as a resident of your district. I know we do not agree on much, but that does not mean that I am any less loyal to our community, our state and our country. I have purchased the services of your business in the past. I buy products from the local businesses in this community and use many of its services. I willingly pay my property taxes and my state income taxes every year, as I know the value of the benefits we receive in this state. Yet you and your Republican colleagues continue, with your words and actions, to dismiss hundreds of thousands like me in the state as not being ‘real people' and therefore having no values or nothing meaningful to say.