U.S. Rep. Jim Cooper, D-Tenn. (AP Photo/Erik Schelzig)NASHVILLE – Fiona Murphey wanted to do something to improve the environment.
So the 13-year-old student at West End Middle School took the very American step of writing her congressman.
She wrote a five-page letter as part of an eighth-grade English assignment and she really didn’t expect a reply from U.S. Rep. Jim Cooper. She never dreamed the Nashville Democrat would show up at her school to surprise her in front of all her classmates.
But that’s what happened recently.
“I wasn’t sure he was going to read it,” Murphey said of her letter. “I never thought I’d get to meet him.”