Do they read our emails?

[mdjudson]

So I have been email Sen. Joe Leiberman for the last few weeks with no avail. So the other day I finally got a response from him. The response was "Thank you for expressing your concern with health care reform" SO now here I am, I no longer can be heard by my representitives. So where do we go from here. I have tried calling and can not get through, you can not leave voice mails, and now they do not even read emails. I know you always here be proactive but I am starting to believe that we no longer have a voice. What do we do now?

[j_h_smith]

Welcome to the Socialist Republic of America. In my state of Maryland, I get the same canned answer from my 2 senators. I have sent them a number of emails and I get the same reply, just a different subject matter. Word for word.

Gotta Love America,
Jim Smith

[singingtothewheat]

I'd personally write a letter to the editor of your local paper. That should turn some heat up somewhere.

[j_h_smith]

We've tried that too. We've got one newspaper and they lean towards the farts of our representatives. So, it's useless trying to make your point through the editor much less through the OpEd page.

Montana is looking better every day!
Jim Smith

[771subliminal]

We've tried that too. We've got one newspaper and they lean towards the farts of our representatives. So, it's useless trying to make your point through the editor much less through the OpEd page.

Montana is looking better every day!
Jim Smith

you dont always have to go to your local paper, you can hit up the news in citys around you till someone does something.

[j_h_smith]

you dont always have to go to your local paper, you can hit up the news in citys around you till someone does something.

I live near Baltimore Maryland, we have one paper, the Baltimore Sun. If we went to another town it would be Washington DC, somewhere in Deleware or Philadelphia. These papers to the north, could care less about the plight of a Baltimorian, or BaltiMORON as I like to call us. We can't get any satisifaction.

Jim Smith

[BPelizabeth]

I also received canned response letters....

[snakemastercanada]

Has anyone tried to send letter mail that is registered so the senator has to sign for the letter.?? Might be worth the cost.

[mdjudson]

I'd personally write a letter to the editor of your local paper. That should turn some heat up somewhere.

I am going to do that. I checked and I can submit a message right online. Whether they post it or not is a different story.

[bsd13]

I've asked a guy from my church who works on various republican campaigns at the local and state level. He said that the politicians rarely if ever actually read any correspondences they receive (or listen to phone messages). They simply don't have the time. Instead, staff members read it and tally the numbers based on what it says. Then they brief the politician as to how the "wind" is blowing so he/she can vote appropriately. Same goes for the democrats. The process is essentially the same.