The organization I work for got involved in advocating a couple of years ago. Part of what they did was try to make it easy for their registered users to send email to political leaders. The research we did at the time turned up some interesting results.
Do to the nature of email, the ease of sending it, the anonymous nature and the ability to automate it most political leaders do not respond to email that does not include demographic information indicating you are one of their constituents. That in itself does not mean you will get a response or the email will even get looked at but it does increase your odds of your email being read by someone who is keeping track of public opinions and responding to them. -----Original Message----- From: Dana [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2005 4:07 PM To: CF-Community Subject: MD residents Just wanted to mention I sent a number of emails over the weekend to various legislators, most of whom did not not replay at all. A majority of those that did used auto reply and thanks me for sharing my thoughts. Senator Sarbanes however just answered with a short update on the issue. I am sure it's boilerplate and written by a staffer, but it at least it's to the point. Found that somewhat impressive and thought I would share. Dana ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| All-in-one: antivirus, antispam, firewall for your PC and PDA. Buy Trend Micro PC-cillin Internet Security http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=60 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:151366 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
