OPEN LETTER TO SENATOR JACK REED Senator Reed, 10-19-26 This open letter isn't about me. The campaign is coming to an end very soon; my candidacy has been ineffective, and that falls totally on me. I am also quite sure that this email will have no effect on this race or how people in Rhode Island see you. I am just praying that this letter may have some influence on how you and the other congressional delegation members from Rhode Island vote on military aid to Israel and on the grossly excessive military spending. I am also praying that media members report the correlation between money and how members vote on military aid to any foreign country. Your record on Gaza arms sales is public, as is your history of campaign donations. - You have been in Congress for almost 36 years - On the Senate Armed Services Committee for almost 28 years - By April 2024, it was reported that Israel had already killed more than 34,000 Gazans in response to the attack on October 7, 2023. Many were women and children. - Yet still in April 2024, you voted for a 26.4-billion-dollar aid package for Israel. - Three months later, in July 2024, you condemned what Israel was doing in Gaza. - But in November 2024, on S.J. Res. 111 & 113, you refused to block any part of a $20 billion arms sale to Israel. By then, about 44,000 Gazans had been killed, and over 13,000 of them were children. - On April 3, 2025, on S.J. Res. 26 & 33, you voted against a resolution to block about $8.8 billion in bombs — 2,000- and 500-lb bombs — and munitions, so the sale went through. - On July 30, 2025, on S.J. Res. 34, you refused to vote to block a $675.7 million sale of bombs to Israel, so the sale went through. By the end of July, it was reported that about 60,000 Gazans had been killed. - By January 2025, the U.S. had supplied over $42 billion in aid and arms sales to Israel. - Now about 74,000 Gazans are dead — including roughly 22,000 children and 12,000 women, according to Gaza's Health Ministry. More than 1,100 of those children have lost limbs. - You have raised millions of dollars just in this cycle — much of it from out of state. - According to OpenSecrets, you have received over $400,000 from pro-Israel groups and supporters in this cycle. - Over your career, you have raised hundreds of thousands of dollars from defense contractors and their employees. It seems Eisenhower's warning about the military-industrial complex has been ignored. You rightly blame Trump for the war in Iran, but Congress needs to accept responsibility for supplying Israel the bombs they dropped on Gaza and the weapons that fed the wider conflict. Between defense contractors and pro-Israel donors, do you think term limits and campaign finance reform could loosen their grip on our democracy? I have tried and failed to convince you (through your staff), WPRI, and WJAR to have a conversation face to face, again, that is on, me. My hope was to shine some light on what the United States and Israel have done to the people of Gaza. My hope is that this letter may have some effect on how congressional members vote, and how the media reports on the correlation of campaign donations and aid packages and sales of military equipment. Sincerely and respectfully, Michael Bahry Independent Candidate for United States Senate bahryforsenate.co