When President Obama was elected in 2008, a lot of people endorsed you for Secretary of State. I think it would be nice if you asked Mr. Sanders to run for Vice President.
I would also appreciate it if you and every other politician who continues to attack me would stop doing that. The constant stress of being bullied does not help me to maintain equilibrium, and the cycle of the conglomerate upsetting me enough that I say things that the conglomerate not only doesn't like but that are more insulting than they need to be continues.
What I have to ask you to do is not to choose former Governor Patrick. What I went through in Massachusetts when he was Governor was not only painful every day, it was truly life-threatening.
Nobody should ever have to be clinging to a driver's side window that the driver is trying to roll up, begging him not to leave until the police get there because it's the middle of the night, she didn't get shelter, and three men who approached her are standing on the corner with nobody else around except another homeless woman who was about to get dragged into the park across the street and raped and beaten with me before the car drove into the intersection out of nowhere.
The men had walked over to us and asked for money. When we said that we didn't have any, they got angry; they were looking for an excuse to start hitting us, without a doubt. They could tell that we were outside because we were homeless, and they knew that they could kill us without the murders being as important to anyone as are the murders of people who aren't homeless. Homeless people frequently die or disappear, and the sexual assault of homeless women is pervasive. I once talked to a homeless woman who had seen another homeless woman being sexually assaulted near a homeless shelter a few hours before, earlier that day, with cars driving past.
The police did get there that night, and we were saved. If that man hadn't accidentally driven through when he did, I would not be writing this page, or any page.
That was one of the hundreds of nights that I spent homeless in Boston while Mr. Patrick was Governor of Massachusetts. He certainly wasn't the only political leader who persecuted me, but he also wasn't one of the few who didn't.
Copyright L. Kochman, June 6, 2016 @ 9:16 p.m.
