Got cap? Got gown? Got President?

by: Rosi Efthim

Sat Dec 12, 2009 at 02:44:00 PM EST

Let me tell you why I want you to come watch me graduate from school ...

That's the sort of letter students in Jersey City are churning out these days in an all-out effort to attract the attention of the Leader of the Free World.

Sen. Bob Menendez is working on getting the President here right now, with some of the students and administrators of the city's public schools. The ask is for graduation day in 2010.

A whopping 25,000 letters from kids grades K-12 were written, with their individual reasons for wanting to see the President come, and many of those were delivered this week to members of the NJ Congressional delegation, along with several portraits of the President by student-artists in the Jersey City schools. Senator Menendez promised all of this - the letters and artwork - will get to the President.