Discussion: What are you calling/faxing/writing Congress about?

[tassosss]

It's been a little quiet around here as the Minority President's administration has become the new normal and has stopped blowing up in a big way every other day. Or that's my impression anyway.

I'm still using ResistBot to tell my Congress people that I support Obamacare and that healthcare should be a right. But I'm starting to feel a little stale on that topic, so I'm probably going to start talking about my support for the EPA because I like clean air and clean water.

I was wondering what other issues folks are talking to their Congress people about. What's near and dear to your heart?

Comments

[stardreamer]

I keep an eye on my various feeds, and when a specific bill or issue comes up that I have something to say about, I just grab my phone and do it. This is one of the things I really love about ResistBot -- it turns contacting my Congresscritters into an impulse action. I usually have 3 sentences in roughly the format:

I oppose [Bill X] because it will cause harm to [affected group or issue]. People in [my state] will be affected in [ways]. I expect you to vote against this bill when it comes to the floor.

There's significant variance, of course, because I don't want everything I send to look or sound alike. But the general format of state opposition, provide examples, request a no vote works really well for me. Think of it as a chained set of 3 tweets. :-)

[tassosss]

I like your rough format. I feel like half the time I have a bewildered question in the middle of the "they thought X wasn't going to be a disaster?"

I really like that Resistbot, because it's texting, taps into that short form writing. It helps streamline what I want to say by skipping the letter-writing part of my brain that would draw things out.