{"id":1325,"date":"2009-10-13T20:19:30","date_gmt":"2009-10-14T01:19:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stephenpickering.com\/?p=1325"},"modified":"2009-10-14T23:08:47","modified_gmt":"2009-10-15T04:08:47","slug":"how-to-get-your-congressmans-attention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/2009\/10\/13\/how-to-get-your-congressmans-attention\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Get Your Congressman&#8217;s Attention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"color: #003366;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Send a stamped, typed, professional letter, preferably on business or similar letterhead and very importantly a RETURN ADDRESS that demonstrates you are from their district<\/span>.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A real stamped letter. Physical. This will get their attention more than any other way and has the most impact, according to Chris Matthews on Hardball yesterday. I don&#8217;t agree with Matthews&#8217; politics, except on his anti-war stance during the Iraq invasion. I&#8217;m a Libertarian, but anyway I do believe him on this point. He should know. He&#8217;s worked in Congress and covered it for years. I believe he was truthful when he made this statement. So, I&#8217;m going to write my Sens. Lincoln and Pryor and Representative Snyder tomorrow in just this manner.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe one letter won&#8217;t mean anything, but I&#8217;m going to try, and I encourage you to also, no matter what your political beliefs are.<\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Related:<\/span><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stephenpickering.com\/2009\/09\/29\/the-health-care-reform-act-of-2009\/\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">The Healthcare Reform Act of 2009<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stephenpickering.com\/2009\/07\/16\/one-of-my-senators-just-co-sponsored-the-bill-the-audit-the-fed\/\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">One of My Senators Just Co-Sponsored the Bill to Audit the Fed!<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Send a stamped, typed, professional letter, preferably on business or similar letterhead and very importantly a RETURN ADDRESS that demonstrates you are from their district. A real stamped letter. Physical. This will get their attention more than any other way &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/2009\/10\/13\/how-to-get-your-congressmans-attention\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[129,128,130,443],"class_list":["post-1325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-activism","tag-congress","tag-contacting-your-congressman","tag-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}