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Mad Lib

(86 posts)
Fri Jan 24, 2020, 01:19 PM Jan 2020

Re Calling Representatives

I have the good fortune of having 2 Democratic Senators and a Democratic Congressional representative, all of whom are on-board with my legislative preferences. My question is this: Is it worth the effort to call politicians outside my own political venue or do they ignore anything not from their state/district? They always ask my zip code when I call in so I wonder if calling, for example, Lisa Murkowski's or Mitt Romney's office, has any impact at all or if the call is just trashed? Any thoughts?

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Re Calling Representatives (Original Post) Mad Lib Jan 2020 OP
my understanding is that staff will.... getagrip_already Jan 2020 #1
Most use caller ID Wellstone ruled Jan 2020 #2
Around here we consider it a waste of time, and there's little point in... TreasonousBastard Jan 2020 #3

getagrip_already

(17,404 posts)
1. my understanding is that staff will....
Fri Jan 24, 2020, 01:21 PM
Jan 2020

Ask what zip you are in, and then ask a number of follow questions, like what county is it in, what highways run through it, what the good eateries are, a name of a local, non-national store you go to or know of, etc.

They only are interested in constituent comments. But it can never hurt to clog switchboards......

 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
2. Most use caller ID
Fri Jan 24, 2020, 01:32 PM
Jan 2020

as a way to handle calls. When fielding heavy call volume,one has to prioritize and caller ID thins the backlog.

TreasonousBastard

(43,049 posts)
3. Around here we consider it a waste of time, and there's little point in...
Fri Jan 24, 2020, 02:26 PM
Jan 2020

pissing off the congresscritter's staff.

Another thing-- when we piled into our reps local office and demonstrated, we pissed of many of the businesses we ended up blocking. Net gain -5.

Oh, and our rep is now on Trump's defense team. That takes balls when he won by a hair last time.

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