I live in Vermont where my delegation in Congress are supportive of the Constitution and established norms and practices followed by nearly every President except D. J. Trump (T-Rump).
I want to be able to send emails or text messages to OTHER Senators and Congress persons. Because other representatives prevent their non-constituents from communicating with their respective offices, the only way I can get my point across is to either write an old-fashioned letter or create a fake constituent and “in-state” address. Leaving a message by phone (either VM or with a live staff member) is questionable as to its effectiveness. Do you have any other recommendations.
By and large I do not recommend contacting other people's members of Congress. The system, in its ideal form, is for them to be responsible to their own constituents and not someone else's. There will be the occasional exception, but as a rule it is not a worthwhile investment of your time.
As a fellow deep blue stater, I appreciate the frustration, and we always try to include a range of actions that allow us to exert leverage of our own - whether that's to the White House, to more local officials, social media promotion, reaching out to potential voters and folks in other states to get them to call THEIR members of Congress, etc. But it's not a perfect solution!
With all the shit-canions that Mitch McConnell was up to as leader of the Senate over the last three administrations, I felt justified in creating a resident from Kentucky to strenuously object to his violating the mores and customs of that respected body. Sometimes one does what one must. B
I live in Vermont where my delegation in Congress are supportive of the Constitution and established norms and practices followed by nearly every President except D. J. Trump (T-Rump).
I want to be able to send emails or text messages to OTHER Senators and Congress persons. Because other representatives prevent their non-constituents from communicating with their respective offices, the only way I can get my point across is to either write an old-fashioned letter or create a fake constituent and “in-state” address. Leaving a message by phone (either VM or with a live staff member) is questionable as to its effectiveness. Do you have any other recommendations.
By and large I do not recommend contacting other people's members of Congress. The system, in its ideal form, is for them to be responsible to their own constituents and not someone else's. There will be the occasional exception, but as a rule it is not a worthwhile investment of your time.
As a fellow deep blue stater, I appreciate the frustration, and we always try to include a range of actions that allow us to exert leverage of our own - whether that's to the White House, to more local officials, social media promotion, reaching out to potential voters and folks in other states to get them to call THEIR members of Congress, etc. But it's not a perfect solution!
With all the shit-canions that Mitch McConnell was up to as leader of the Senate over the last three administrations, I felt justified in creating a resident from Kentucky to strenuously object to his violating the mores and customs of that respected body. Sometimes one does what one must. B