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thisfinecrew2018-03-08 12:36 pm
redbird) wrote in thisfinecrew2018-03-08 12:36 pm
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odd replies from politicians
I just got another "thank you for contacting me" from an elected official about something I have no recollection or record of calling or emailing about. In this case it's from Elizabeth Warren, and it's something I easily might have called about, the special counsel. Maybe I should start tracking those random signed online petitions (my activism spreadsheet currently has a tab for emails, with the note "not tracking petitions, because really").
I've also gotten one where the auto-reply system clearly hadn't parsed things well (I'd added something about accessibility of his website to an email to Ed Markey, and got a reply that was only about that addendum, not the three paragraphs before it). When I emailed Paul Ryan's office about the DREAM Act (yes, a long shot) the email thanked me for writing about the economy and then gave his opinion on that. I knew we disagree, but I would have expected "thank you for writing about immigration policy" if he wrote back at all.
(crossposted from my own journal)
I've also gotten one where the auto-reply system clearly hadn't parsed things well (I'd added something about accessibility of his website to an email to Ed Markey, and got a reply that was only about that addendum, not the three paragraphs before it). When I emailed Paul Ryan's office about the DREAM Act (yes, a long shot) the email thanked me for writing about the economy and then gave his opinion on that. I knew we disagree, but I would have expected "thank you for writing about immigration policy" if he wrote back at all.
(crossposted from my own journal)