Cotton has lost vote

Tom Cotton, I moved to Arkansas in August 2016, and was thrilled to have Republican senators. I was pleased to have you as a senator. You were outspoken, conservative, a veteran and supported law enforcement.

I am a retired law enforcement officer. I spent 26 years as a California officer and six years as a DoD officer. I returned to law enforcement in 2018 as an officer in a small Arkansas city.

I began to believe that perhaps you were just voice and not substance.

I had an issue that I needed help with concerning the Office of Personnel Management (OPM). I wrote you asking for assistance, but all I received was a computer-generated response that you appreciated my taking the time to write to you. I wrote two additional letters and sent several emails regarding the OPM problem. None of those letters or emails were ever acknowledged.

As a lifelong conservative Republican, I never imagined that a senator, such as you, would blatantly ignore a constituent.

In December 2022, when you voted to support the pork-laden $1.7 trillion omnibus bill, you sealed the deal. I will no longer support your election for any position.

It appears your vote was to strip the newly elected Republican House of its fiscal oversight for the current fiscal year. Your vote was to allow the transport of illegal aliens throughout the USA, but not allow the deportation of illegal aliens. Your vote supported the billions of dollars of pet projects at the cost of hyper-inflation to taxpayers.

Tom Cotton, I hope you are ashamed of yourself. You have become a denizen of the D.C. swamp. You will never again get my vote, and I will make every effort to keep others from voting for you. JOHN HUTCHINS Cherokee Village