I'm From Missouri - Show Me
After reading some of Professor Johnson's book, Congress Online, I started wondering about the email responses of my own members of Congress. Since I vehemently disagree with pretty much everything my evil, Republican Senators do and say, I email them often. However, the only thing I usually notice about their response is that it is A) slow and B) serves to confirm what idiots my senators are.
Last night I sent an email to both of my soulless, conservative Senators, Jim Talent and Kit Bond using my Mom's address. (Mom, if you're reading this - let me know if I get a paper response). Just in case they weren't sure, I let them know my thoughts on the next Supreme Court justice and the upcoming battle.
When I submitted my comment to the Kit Bond site I got a page that said "Thank You! The following information has been e-mailed:" and then showed what I had submitted. The Talent website took me to a blank page that stated "Thank you for contacting Jim Talent" with no way of navigating back to his site. Neither was exactly a warm or fuzzy response to my message.
So now I'll wait. I'll keep you informed of how long it takes to receive the words of wisdom my Senators have to give.
2 Comments:
When I worked in my Senator's office we had a staffer whose job it was to write an e-mail letter about specific issues that constituents would email us about. For example, I am sure that right now they have already drafted an email about the Senator's views on Supreme Court nominations.
Each time someone would ask a question pertaining to an issue they would get back the prewritten response.
Now this is not always good because people would write in specific questions about an issue and get a more general response back. But in my opinion this is better than just getting a thank you message in return. An office that gets that many emails will never be able to write back to ever person individually so i think this system is at least a step in the right direction.
Good luck waiting for a response!
I emailed my Congressman last summer.
I'm still waiting.
:(
Maybe he's just not that into me?
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