Posted on 07/24/2008 11:36:11 AM PDT by pabianice
In a futile but determined effort to get some representation in the US Congress I tried to contact Senator kennedy's office to urge him to support domestic drilling for oil and gas.
First, you cannot contact his office online. All you can do is fill-in blanks of an online form that will be seen by a $ 5.85/hour flunky who will delete it. Second, you cannot chose "energy" or "oil" as the topic. Kennedy won't stand for it.
I wrote anyway, as I did to Senator Kerry and Congressman Neal, and will post their replies.
None of them care what we think.
Moved ... to Mexico!
A wind farm in Nantucket Sound means something...but *not* $4/gal....or $10/gal....gas.
I have been advised by a couple of legislative aids that the best way to contact your representatives’ offices on legislation is to send a fax. E-mail and web site input get dealt with in a bulk fashion, where they are simply added up as pro or con. Snail mail sits until someone puts on gloves, etc. because they’re afraid it might have anthrax spores in it. Phone calls are great if you need a consituent service but lousy if you just want to register your views, as again you’ll just be checked off as pro or con. But fax gets written words down in hard copy into their office and opened up and there’s no lag because of fear of poison, etc.
$ 5.85/hour flunky
Hey, that’s a $6.55/hour flunky starting today!
send him a meesage in a bottle. preferably Johnny Walker.
Same with Jack Murtha......because I’m not a constituent, his email format would not take my letter.....I was trying to blast him for not apologizing to the Marines who were cleared in Iraq.
Go figure.
I have my congressman’s (Yarmuth) Washington phone number on my cell phone. Every time I go to the gas station and the prices are up, I call his office to thank him (he is totally in Pelosi’s pocket). The other day I passed out his number to six like minded people when I was filling up. I know it probably doesn’t mean anything, but it made me feel better.
We share a congressman. Good luck with that....
I suggest taping a note to a bottle of booze and mail it to his office (mark it “Personal & Confidential)....or perhaps find some Chavis scented letterhead and drop him a note.
Seems like nearly all the categories from teddies pick list would make a good jumping off point to do some 'splainin' to him about the price of gas. war in iraq, retirement security, fiscal responsibility, fair trade, ...
Chavis=Chivas (non-drinker here)
send postcards when writing to the congress.
One postcard is read by 7 people.
40 years later and he still has water in his ears!
How dare you try and demand representation from a sick man!? You should be praising him for his courage, not complaining! The insolence! (Sarcasm tag not necessary...right?)
I’m curious, where did you get this address? It is not the same one that is on the Speaker’s website.
Also, do you contact her everyday?
“where did you get this address”
speaker of the house email address
I got it from her office
I can not use her regular email because I am in Wisconsin
I contact her daily
Yeah, as a resident of NC, I can’t contact her as a congressperson, but I have been using the Speaker’s website to contact her; however, there is no email address - just the boxes to fill in.
From now on I can use the address you have: much quicker.
Thanks
The only thing those “Democrat” dictators would take notice of is an angry mob kicking down their door. Otherwise, they’ll simply piss on the proletariat.
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