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Re: my email to congress

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good doria. tell them what for. however, try to keep it specific when you write to your representative or senator...zimbabwe is unrelated to the issue at hand, that of the flag amendment. throwing extraneous details in there is likely to make the representative think that you're more radical and unfocused than not...and congressmen and women receive a LOT of radical correspondence, so you want to separate yourself as much as possible from that so that your issue can be taken as seriously as possible. Your message is good, but again, the key is to be very specific when writing to a representative. And yes, they do read them...several months ago i wrote an unsolicited letter to my local house representative about the patriot act and the several votes on it that were coming up at the time, and I received a reply in the mail from him that actually addressed the specific concerns I made in my letter, so i know it wasn't a cookie-cutter reply. Now whether it was him or one of his assistants who wrote it, i don't know, but he did sign it with ink. So yes, your letters make a difference. Maybe if more people wrote to their rep. about the patriot act when they still had the chance, the recent decision might not have been the same...