Request for Hillary to Run a Respectful Campaign

March 10, 2008

Dear Senator Clinton,

We, the rank and file of the Democratic Party, would like to ask you to help us in our shared goal of having a respectful Democratic primary race. We ask for your help by imploring you to desist with the "kitchen-sink" attacks and run a tough campaign based on fairness and focused on each candidate's positive attributes. For the good of the country, we do not want to see any more of the misleading and personal negative campaigning that is now taking place. We ask you to leave this type of negative campaigning in the past and ask you truly to embrace the message of change. We want each candidate to leave this race with her and his reputation in tact. We would like you to proceed in this campaign with a different outlook and help to create a positive race about issues, ideas, and competing visions.