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When did you last contact your Congressperson to complain or compliment?

When did you last contact your Congressperson to complain or compliment?


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When did you last contact your Congressperson to complain or compliment?

Directly contacted... individually (manufactured post card campaigns with scripted messages don't count)... your own elected Congressperson, not one who does not directly represent you... phone, email, snail mail... AND stood behind your thoughts by giving your name.
 
I don't do it as often as I should. Last time was about 2 years ago.

I will not call. I have done email, but I prefer snail mail. I have read that the type of contact carries weight. Phone calls mean almost nothing. Emails not much more. Snail mail carries the most weight. Supposedly, if you feel strongly enough to sit down and take the time to write out a letter... the more effort you're willing to put forth... the more serious you are deemed to be.

Manufactured scripted post card campaigns are dismissed out-of-hand. I refuse to participate in them for that reason. There have been a couple times that I wanted to say the same thing, but I refused to send the card. Instead I wrote my own snail mail letter paraphrasing in my own words what the card said.
 
The problem in California is there is no representation for Republicans. So I write to them as if I'm on their side, demanding free electricity credits due to global warming caused "by others", suggesting the school lunch program welcome the homeless. LOL

I did get my local council woman to get me a red zone across from a school. "Does it really take 50 bureaucrats and a quart of paint to get a red zone?" Took a few months but it's there.
 
When did you last contact your Congressperson to complain or compliment?

Directly contacted... individually (manufactured post card campaigns with scripted messages don't count)... your own elected Congressperson, not one who does not directly represent you... phone, email, snail mail... AND stood behind your thoughts by giving your name.
I contact my Congressional peeps (from their webpages) and the WH whenever I feel the need.

The downside is they send you crap every month about what a great job they're doing.
 
I contact my Congressional peeps (from their webpages) and the WH whenever I feel the need.

The downside is they send you crap every month about what a great job they're doing.

Yeah, I get those, too.

That's why I have "garbage" email accounts. ;) (I do sign my real name, but when I use the internet I do not give them my primary email.)
 
The problem in California is there is no representation for Republicans. So I write to them as if I'm on their side, demanding free electricity credits due to global warming caused "by others", suggesting the school lunch program welcome the homeless. LOL

What part of California do you live? There are still parts of the state that are moderate to conservative.
 
I contact my Congressional peeps (from their webpages) and the WH whenever I feel the need.

The downside is they send you crap every month about what a great job they're doing.

Depending on the issue I call, email or write a letter. You have to request a written response or you won't get one. In my experience few responses are meaningful. Often spoken and/or written responses could be taken either way.

Whether you liked him or not Sen. Jessie Helms was greatly respected for the manner in which he (his office) responded to constituents. If you contacted his office you got a written response. If you requested assistance or information from his office you received a timely and thorough response.

When I lived in NC I was not a fan of Helm's politics but the man got things done and he was uncharacteristically responsive for an elected official. McCain? Meh. He/his office has sent one written response to me over the years. The response was useless no matter what position I might have held.
 
Depending on the issue I call, email or write a letter. You have to request a written response or you won't get one. In my experience few responses are meaningful. Often spoken and/or written responses could be taken either way.

Whether you liked him or not Sen. Jessie Helms was greatly respected for the manner in which he (his office) responded to constituents. If you contacted his office you got a written response. If you requested assistance or information from his office you received a timely and thorough response.

When I lived in NC I was not a fan of Helm's politics but the man got things done and he was uncharacteristically responsive for an elected official. McCain? Meh. He/his office has sent one written response to me over the years. The response was useless no matter what position I might have held.

That never occurred to me, but it makes sense.
 
Depending on the issue I call, email or write a letter. You have to request a written response or you won't get one. In my experience few responses are meaningful. Often spoken and/or written responses could be taken either way.

Whether you liked him or not Sen. Jessie Helms was greatly respected for the manner in which he (his office) responded to constituents. If you contacted his office you got a written response. If you requested assistance or information from his office you received a timely and thorough response.

When I lived in NC I was not a fan of Helm's politics but the man got things done and he was uncharacteristically responsive for an elected official. McCain? Meh. He/his office has sent one written response to me over the years. The response was useless no matter what position I might have held.

Most people have never heard of "Constituent Services". That is the bread and butter of being congressman. Ted Kennedy had a "services factory", and it paid off. He got re elected many times in spite of supporting the IRA and drowning some woman while drunk. "But hey, the trains run on time!"
 
When did you last contact your Congressperson to complain or compliment?

Directly contacted... individually (manufactured post card campaigns with scripted messages don't count)... your own elected Congressperson, not one who does not directly represent you... phone, email, snail mail... AND stood behind your thoughts by giving your name.

I used to do that a lot, though it usually wasn't the representative responsible for my district. More the relevant department heads in ministries, the central bank or politicians I knew from here or there.
 
The last net neutrality vote, I think.
 
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