I have done it. I have written a letter to my congressperson.
To be precise, I have written an email to my congressperson.
While I have voted in most every election since I have been eligible, certainly all on the state and federal level, I have never communicated with my representatives in this way.
I have now de-lurked, so to speak.
And it is empowering! I feel strong! Hear me roar! I feel like I want to write to all of my representatives now.
And it was so easy. Used to be to find their snail mail addresses (if one wasn’t in the habit), one had to go to the library, or catch it in the newspaper. Then one had to get paper and envelopes. Then stamps and the post office…so much trouble!
Not so now. Google their name and all sorts of ways and means of communication pop up.
I composed a letter in Word, and copy/pasted (when all was said, done, and well edited), into the email form on her website. Easy peasy!
I am ready to whack out crackhead opinions all day long and hit the send key.
Wait. I do that anyway. I call it blogging.
(What I see, What I've been taught, what I've learned, what amazes me...)
November 19, 2009
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6 comments:
Hooray for you! A good citizen for sure. (And I'll bet you return shopping carts to the corral when you shop.)
You wild and crazy radical. What, pray tell, were you bitching about? :D
I DO return shopping carts to the proper place!
And I was telling my congressperson to vote an intelligent and informed vote like she was sent to DC to do, not to be swayed by the pernicious and fickle masses! (Also to get off the duff and help pass a healthcare reform bill...)
Sharon and Betsy! I love that! Last night I suddenly thought of something....didn't you and Jan take piano lessons growing up? Didn't you have a piano in the living room? So you knit, sew, do crafty things, ride your bike to work, etc. AND play the piano?!? Plus you got glasses in 4th grade-- I had to lie for 3 years and tell everyone I couldn't see before I got glasses! Boy, some people have all the luck...
Well, good on you! I have written once or twice over the years. In my experience, the feeling of satisfaction is often diminished by the form letter response that I have gotten. I hope your c-person is more responsive than mine have been!
I also have recently joined the leagues of the politically vocal and communicative, and let me tell you, it's addicting. Enjoy it! (And lets hope both of our congressmen bother to listen!)
Oh, and as per that Collared One Button Scarf, it's actually designed by the owner of the LYS I now frequent. The pattern should be on my project page! =D
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