FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — The simple, heart-felt letters of an old-fashioned Amish man are being credited for the Senate's quick passage of a bill that would allow Kentucky's Amish residents to use reflective tape on their horse-drawn buggies instead of the bright orange triangular signs that they object to on religious grounds.

Jacob Gingerich of Mayfield, a soft-spoken man who sports the trademark black broad-brimmed hat and long beard, used no computer, no letterhead, no printer and no copier to get his message to 138 lawmakers. Instead, he painstakingly wrote by each letter by hand explaining why he and his brethren needed the Legislature to intervene.

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