This is a bit of a follow-up to my recent post on the relative effectiveness of various means of pressuring Congresspersons. I got together with the local movers and shakers on single payer today and want to quickly pass along some things that got said about that, as well as on doing outreach, before I get back to the prevailing insanity of RL.
One very experienced person on the subject of letters to congresspersons: handwritten letters with local, personal details are extremely effective. Send them to the local office, not the DC office, to avoid the screening delay.
A local "centrist" Dem Congressperson's office claims that on the last national call-in day for health care reform they received a grand total of 42 calls to their local office and 4 to their DC office, and contrasted that with the avalanche of calls they get when Limbaugh belches some nonsense.
Alors, arm yourselves with pens and telephones, citoyens!
On outreach, if you're a twitterer (tweeter? I'm too old fer this), consider that the only person in the room tonight seemingly under the age of 30, hell, 40, hell, probably 50, said, look, if you want to educate my generation -- and we're the ones with no health insurance -- you've got to use twitter and Facebook.
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Great suggestions!!
Thanks for these tips. I'll switch to sending letters to the local office. I like calling the local office, and sometimes when I can't get through, I call to the office in the next town over. The local folks always seemed more interested than the DC ones to me, but I assumed volume of calls to the DC office was more effective. Go figure.
Like matter and anti-matter, Republicans and the truth are unable to occupy the same space.