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By webwench (Thu Oct 09, 2008 at 09:19:58 AM EST) (all tags)

I wrote my senators and my representative several days ago. My representative is Tom Price (R-GA, Dist 6).

Senator Saxby Chambliss responded.

Senator Johnny Isakson responded.

Rep. Tom Price elected not to respond.

Perhaps Rep. Tom Price feels another position in another, non-elected capacity would suit him better.

I expect answers from my elected officials. Is it too much to ask?

(You know what the real hell of it is? Isakson and Chambliss all voted FOR the bailout, despite being republicans. Price voted NAY.)

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That's a great system you have there by Breaker (4.00 / 5) #1 Thu Oct 09, 2008 at 09:42:54 AM EST

"I wrote my senators and my representative several days ago"

So writing "my senators and my representative" on a bit of paper sometimes means they send you a letter? 2 out of 3 ain't bad, surely.

Pedantry aside, I find it amusing in a schadenfreude way that the USian bailout was blocked because kneejerk voters wrote to their reps and told them to vote no. So, mindful of the election coming soon, they did as requested.

Only to then vote it all through with an extra few billion of riders attached to it that had nothing to do with credit. You couldn't make it up. I look forward to the reemergence of USia as a dominant economic power, raised through selling competitively priced wooden arrows for use as childrens toys.

yep by webwench (2.00 / 0) #4 Thu Oct 09, 2008 at 10:15:20 AM EST

it's a big pile of shite, ain't it?

^{Getting more attention than you since 1998. Ya ya!}
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I'd like to say we have a better system here by Breaker (4.00 / 2) #5 Thu Oct 09, 2008 at 10:51:45 AM EST

In Soviet UKia. If I did, I'd be bloody wrong.

~2m (IIRC) people took to the streets to protest against our entry into the Iraq war. That's not someone taking 15 minutes to knock up a letter and post it, that's a whole day of commitment and a risk of the protest turning into a riot with them caught up in it.

But to war we went.

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Be fair by DullTrev (4.00 / 2) #13 Thu Oct 09, 2008 at 12:01:44 PM EST

Police estimates put the number of marchers at approximately 3.

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DFJ?
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: These were police stats, yes? by Breaker (4.00 / 1) #14 Thu Oct 09, 2008 at 12:08:56 PM EST

That get washed through the ONS, that great paragon of truthtelling?

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You laugh by ucblockhead (4.00 / 1) #7 Thu Oct 09, 2008 at 11:18:12 AM EST

What you don't realize is that it is part of our plot to dominate the world with guerrilla commandos armed with wooded arrows!
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: When the depression of 2009 hits by georgeha (4.00 / 1) #10 Thu Oct 09, 2008 at 11:25:15 AM EST

you'll be glad kids can shoot game with arrows, though I guess you'll have to settle for FOML shooting a carrot.

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As much as I'm generally anti-Republican by lm (4.00 / 1) #2 Thu Oct 09, 2008 at 09:47:24 AM EST

Give Price some time to respond. Senators generally have far larger staffs and, let's be honest, it was their staff of Chambliss and Isakson that responded rather than the senators themselves.

There is no more degenerate kind of state than that in which the richest are supposed to be the best.
Cicero, The Republic

You're not in Uppity Westmoreland's district? by georgeha (2.00 / 0) #3 Thu Oct 09, 2008 at 09:56:06 AM EST

Too bad, he seems like a character.

I get responses from my guys by garlic (4.00 / 1) #6 Thu Oct 09, 2008 at 10:56:56 AM EST

except its ussually months later, after I've forgotten what the heck I was writing them about to begin with.

I've written 12 or so letters over the years by lm (2.00 / 0) #8 Thu Oct 09, 2008 at 11:18:59 AM EST

I've almost always gotten a response, albeit sometimes months later. But those responses were almost always canned form letters. On occasion, they were canned form letters about the legislator's stance on specific issues and why he was going the way he was going.

One time I received a response that actually addressed the specific slant on the specific issue I raised in my letter. I was a bit shocked.

There is no more degenerate kind of state than that in which the richest are supposed to be the best.
Cicero, The Republic
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Yeah, me too by ucblockhead (2.00 / 0) #11 Thu Oct 09, 2008 at 11:29:26 AM EST

Though I did appreciate that Boxer wrote me to say essentially "thanks for your input, but I disagree for [reasons]" even if it was a form letter.

I should write my congress-women more often.
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I have to keep better track of the contents by garlic (2.00 / 0) #15 Thu Oct 09, 2008 at 12:18:34 PM EST

of what I send them. Senator Obama has been very good about replies, as has Congressman Roskam. Senator Durbin hasn't been as good about it, but I did get an email from him this week about Search and Seizure at border crossings with some good details on what the senate is currently doing about it.

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We got a Jersey Senator involved by cam (2.00 / 0) #16 Thu Oct 09, 2008 at 12:28:09 PM EST

in my green card when it stalled for 18 months. He was awesome. Helped out fantastically.

cam
Freedom, liberty, equity and an Australian Republic
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: Senators are actually good for that sort of stuff by lm (2.00 / 0) #17 Thu Oct 09, 2008 at 12:33:27 PM EST

I've seen senators get involved with helping their constituents out with all sorts of business that runs into SNAFUs at the federal or international level. For example, one of Ohio's senators put in a good deal of work for a family at our last parish that run into problems with the government of Guatemala over an adoption from a Church run orphanage in Guatemala City. In part, that's what they're there for. And it's one of the reasons why I cringe every time a Republican quotes Reagan saying that one of the scariest things in the world is someone coming to your door saying `I'm from the government and I'm here to help.'
There is no more degenerate kind of state than that in which the richest are supposed to be the best.
Cicero, The Republic
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Responses by ucblockhead (4.00 / 1) #9 Thu Oct 09, 2008 at 11:19:52 AM EST

The last time I wrote, I got responses to all three letters. However, Diane Feinstein's people clearly don't actually read the letters, so hers probably was worse than no response. (Hint: the response should not brag about doing what the voter just implored you not to do.)
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I regularily write to my reps by muchagecko (4.00 / 1) #12 Thu Oct 09, 2008 at 11:54:30 AM EST

It's super easy now that everything is online.

Back in the day I sent out letters on loud stationary. Once at a dinner party an intern for one of the reps I regularly corresponded with mentioned my loud stationary without realizing it was mine.

A purpose gives you a reason to wake up every morning.
So a purpose is like a box of powdered donut holes?
Exactly
My Name is Earl

Writing by Gedvondur (2.00 / 0) #18 Thu Oct 09, 2008 at 01:45:26 PM EST

I wrote all three of mine.

Senator Russ Feingold responded almost immedieatly.

Congresscritter Steve Kagan a few days later.

Senator Herb Kohl responded about two weeks later.

You may not be aware, but the House email system was shut down just prior to the first vote for 700b bailout package because it overloaded. That may be why your congresscritter didn't respond. Word is that all of the legislative reps in Washington received so may emails that it was nearly impossible to keep up. I would look into that before condemning your rep. Not trying to defend him, just saying.

Gedvondur

"I love my brain. It's the only organ I can afford to lose." --frijolito

: I hate the house email system. by garlic (2.00 / 0) #19 Fri Oct 10, 2008 at 04:30:29 PM EST

I want to use my own email program to email into their email address -- Then I would have records of what the heck I sent them. Instead, they all use web forms of one sort or another to get their email. Pain in the ass.

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