You are responsible for Casey being the Democratic candidate for the senate. He is strongly anti-choice. Casey is against stem-cell research, he is against gays being able to adopt and yet, you tell Democrats he deserves to be a senator.

What of his 'electability' status in Pennsylvania ? Why would anyone vote for Casey when he walks in lockstep with Santorum on so many issues? How does he distinquish himself as being a different kind of politician and/or candidate as Santorum?

It's become clear to many women in the Democratic Party that our leaders are more than willing to sell us out when leaders like you, Senator, walk all over our rights of choice. I can't help but believe this party will pay a high price if you don't do what it takes to regain our faith and loyalty.

If you demand that Casey remove himself from the race, you would be making a serious statement to the women, like myself, who are thinking seriously of not voting Senator. I've been a Democrat for 40 years. I've voted since 1972. I've never voted for anyone that wasn't a Democrat. I'll stay home instead of voting for a candidate or a party that no longer respects women's rights.

You will lose my vote Senator, your colleagues will lose my vote until you prove to me you are as loyal to me as I have been to you for decades.

Women and minority rights will be set back decades under Alito if he is allowed to go to the Supreme Court. This president will be given unfettered executive power if Alito sits on the Supreme Court. Worker's rights will be denied, NSA wiretaps and surveillance will be allowed to continue without court orders, our ten-year-old daughters could be at risk of being stripped searched without warrants, our teenaged sons could be shot in the back by law enforcement for stealing $10.

Women's right to choose could be criminalized. Abortion providers and women who seek and/or obtain an abortion could be imprisoned.

So, while I understand your concern for the Gulf Coast, your responsibilities go beyond your constituents when it concerns the Supreme Court and where a Justice like Alito will take all of us as Americans.

Your press release was very shortsighted, Senator. What you and many of your Democratic colleagues don't seem to understand is this, women are ready and willing to leave this party, we have drawn a line in the sand, when it comes to our rights being threatened by Alito's confirmation.

For those of us who lived and were pregnant in the years before Roe v. Wade became the law of the land, we remember all too well what life was like for women and young girls. If you don't filibuster, we have a very difficult time believing you understand what the future will be for women and young girls.

I'm sorely dissapointed and angry at what you had to say about your vote for cloture. It says so much about you as a woman and a senator. It's shocking really to think you truly feel this way.

I told her many Democratic women will stay home before we vote for another Democrat if this party does not do the right thing by filibustering. I told her I've been a Democrat for almost 40 years, I've voted in every election since 1972 and I have always voted for Democrats. I told her she will not only lose my vote in 2006 and 2008 but they will lose my vote forever.

I told her many, many other Democrats feel the same way. I told her we need to know this party is as loyal to us as we are to them.

Then I told her to stop telling me, "I will pass this along" and instead answer my damned question on what will be important enough to filibuster if not Alito.