Action: Program your Representatives Numbers into your Phone

[tassosss]

The 115th Congress was sworn in today. Now's the time to get to know your representatives, especially ones who were elected this cycle.

I know many people have done this already, but for those that haven't, here's your nudge: one way to lower the barrier to calling your representatives is to program their State and Washington Office phone numbers into your phone.

From the previous post on this:

Find Your Representative - by zip code for House of Representatives. this should lead to your Reps, and then to their websites where you can find the contact info for the Washington D.C. Office and their State office.

Senators Contact - list form for the Senators. The link on their name seems to go to their webpage, and their link under "contact" can go to either a webform or a webpage. You'll have to experiment to see which one gets you to a phone number.

ALSO IMPORTANT 
Find the contact info for your STATE REPRESENTATIVES and GOVERNOR. Right now, Republicans control the majority of State Legislatures, and these will be the rising stars of the party in future elections. No reason not to voice your displeasure at the direction of the national party with it's lower rung members.

Comments

[serpentine]

Can I briefly mention that if you call the Governor's office, there is always a high likelihood that you will be transferred to whatever department that is concerned with the topic that you're calling about. They don't always have staffers in the same way that Congress people do.

[tassosss]

Good to know. Thanks for that info.

[untonuggan]

I am doing this slowly. Every time I call someone, I add their number to my phone and also see if I can get the energy to add someone else's. <3

Thanks for the encouragement.

[tassosss]

That's so great! I'm so proud of you!

This is the sort of thing that you have to do at your pace because it is hard. It took me three weeks after the election of thinking about it for me to finally sit down and do look up the numbers.

Do what you can, when you can.