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Re: Fax Tubes
said by Jason Levine  :The whole fax infrastructure of Capitol Hill was jammed for two days. The linked story talks about using email instead of faxes to communicate with Congress. Well, what are you waiting for? Get to them faxes!! You may even try one of these newfangled systems for communicating with congresspersons—I'm told this "E" mail works pretty good. But that is wrong. When lobbying Congress, the emails are not read. A system looks for keywords and the Congresscritters are presented with a stat that says so many emails wrote about "internet radio" and so many about another subject, etc. Faxes are actually read by some assistant and then a summary is presented to the Congresscritter. Faxes have more impact and visibility than does email. Phone calls to the local or Washington office have even higher visibility.
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marigolds
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Saint Louis, MO | Better yet, there is still enough time to actually write and send a letter (write your own though for more impact).
I highly recommend phone calls too. Phone calls let them understand the person behind the passionate interest. |
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said by TKJunkMail : Phone calls to the local or Washington office have even higher visibility. A hand written snail mail letter has the most impact. e-mail campaigns from special interests can generate hundreds of thousands of e-mails. |
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| said by batterup :A hand written snail mail letter has the most impact. e-mail campaigns from special interests can generate hundreds of thousands of e-mails. And a hand-dialed phone call does even better than that, since the staffer has to listen to you. Even letters can "get lost" without anybody ever seeing the message. But if you inspire a young staffer (who probably relies on the Internet for a lot of things), then you have a voice in the office repeating your message several times. |
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