Rep. Elissa Slotkin D-MI

The Honorable Elissa Slotkin,
Democrat, Michigan 8th Congressional district
United States House of Representatives

Dear Rep. Slotkin,

This communication is prompted by your below words reported this past weekend in the USAToday article Why moderates are holding back on impeachment:

"I feel very strongly that in my prior life we often went to other countries and foreign governments when I was at the Pentagon and said, 'We want you to do X in exchange for Y,' but that exchange was exclusively for the national security interests of the country, not for Elissa Slotkin's personal or political gain," said Slotkin, who hasn't committed one way or the other on impeachment. "And that's a pretty fundamental difference and that was the conversation I had with one of my peers."

Your words prompted me to suggest to Alabama members of Congress and candidates for Congress that they should ponder your words. Below is a tweet I sent to Rep. Mike Rogers.

Do you have the moral fiber and the intellectual capacity to ponder the words of Rep. Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., former CIA, Pentagon and NSC, about quid pro quo's with foreign governments, and to render a public comment about said words?#alpolitics #al03https://t.co/kuEUowXWDx

— Rob Shattuck (@RobShattuckAL06) December 8, 2019

I will add to this communication as appropriate.

Robert Shattuck
Birmingham, AL

I believe #MI08 sent @RepSlotkin to Congress to cast a judgement on the moral fiber of Alabama members of Congress and candidates for Congress. #alpolitics #mi03 @sher_wr @MaxLewMichigan @Solutioneer72 @usaf__vet@MattforMichigan @RepHaleyStevenshttps://t.co/q1yAxwUUZq

— Rob Shattuck (@RobShattuckAL06) December 10, 2019

Commentary 12/19/2019
There was no significant agreement about anything between Dems and GOP in yesterday's House debate of the articles of impeachment.There was no back and forth exploration of reasonably debatable issues about impeachment or not, and the general tenor of the speakers was "your side is wrong, our side is right, and there is no reasonably debatable question about whether Trump should be impeached or not, with Dems saying he absolutely must be impeached to save our republic and GOP saying it is an absolute travesty that impeachment is being sought.
I believe there are reasonably debatable issues about impeachment or not, which are deserving of back and forth exploration.

The articles of impeachment refer to a course of conduct by Trump  "for corrupt purposes in pursuit of personal political benefit" and abusing powers of Presidency "by ignoring and injuring national security and other vital national interests to obtain an improper personal benefit." 

Yesterday the GOP generally contended that there cannot be an impeachable abuse of power by the POTUS without there being an allegation and proof of a "crime". 

Two days ago, Rep. Collins seemed to acknowledge there can be an impeachable abuse of power by the POTUS, but, when asked about hypothetical acts by the POTUS, Rep. Collins declined to be drawn into discussion about hypothetical acts and insisted on focusing only on what happened with Trump and Ukraine and the same was not an impeachable abuse of power by Trump.