I know back in the day, a letter used to be more attention grabbing, but is email a good method now?

6/25/2011 11:47:20 AM

An email is fine, as long as it's strongly worded.

http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm
https://writerep.house.gov/writerep/welcome.shtml

6/25/2011 12:07:06 PM

they're not going to pay attention to it unless you send $texas with it.

6/25/2011 12:07:57 PM

maybe just send the $texas

6/25/2011 12:14:38 PM

tell em you are not gonna to donate to his/her reelection (your $10 donation).....that should scare them....

6/25/2011 3:34:11 PM

I recently emailed richard Burr

he sent me a letter in the mail -- it was obviously a canned response

I was still kinda impressed that he sent anything though

6/25/2011 10:30:25 PM

^ I sent Burr an email (and all the other representatives) and his office actually called me back. I've gotten good responses from emails in general, as long as i've been very specific in my comments, and didn't use copy/paste things.

6/25/2011 10:45:31 PM

Even though I didn't like Helms' politics at all, when my mom wrote him a letter asking for help when she was getting screwed by a federal agency, not only did he write her a personal letter back, he took care of the issue she was having. I was very that he took the time to do that or at least sent an intern to deal with it

6/25/2011 11:02:12 PM

In person works better than an e-mail, letter, or even a call. If you can schedule a meeting that would probably be best. If you can't, then just try stopping by their office while its open. Even if the best you can do is relay your message to a legislative aide and give them the written materials, that is a thousand times more likely to get your message across than an e-mail.

Depending on how pressing the issue is, you can wait and watch the representative's schedule, and wait until they're in your area at some kind of constituent meeting and possibly get a question answered or share a comment with the added benefit of being the public where the pressure is up on responding positively about your concern (especially if reporters are attending).

6/26/2011 1:16:13 AM

From time to time Congressman Jones sends out emails asking for comments on specific topics. I sent him an email back on one topic and one of his guys in Washington called me and left a voice-mail saying he enjoyed the letter and passed it along to the Congressman.

6/26/2011 9:30:31 AM

i've emailed burr & hagen before. i got an actual email back from hagen & probably that same canned letter response back from burr a lonnggggg time after.

6/26/2011 12:15:37 PM

who the fuck is hagen?

6/26/2011 12:23:34 PM

Kay Hagan

one of the US Senators from North Carolina

[Edited on June 26, 2011 at 12:58 PM. Reason : .]

6/26/2011 12:57:33 PM

6/26/2011 2:56:55 PM

if you are going to correspond, and you genuinely care about the issue you're writing about, type a letter and mail it.

email is rarely looked at because most of the time it's sent from a pre-written form on some advocacy organization's website. in that case the responses are measured more by volume than content.

the more personal details, situations, etc, the better and also more likely you get a realistic response.

6/27/2011 1:01:33 PM