On Oct 28, 2008, at 7:27 PM, Dave Land wrote: > What a kind reply to my (perhaps excessively) testy email. Thank you. > > And honestly, one of the main reasons I did not do so was that I do > not presume to know more than my US Representative (Zoe Lofgren)
It is often still worth informing your Senator/House Rep of issues that are important to you as a constituent, because if you don't tell them, they're likely not to know, or in some cases, have any reason to be aware of or research those issues. It's possible they've already developed a position on such issues, but it's also possible they haven't been made aware of them and your email/letter/call might actually trigger action on the subject that wouldn't have taken place otherwise. At the very least, it will be noted in the reports that are (hopefully) sent up to the Rep for review -- with rare exceptions, they tend to hire good staff and the office staff handle such information pretty well. My gripe with my own Rep is more that he and I strongly disagree on just about anything related to federal law with the possible exception of the 2nd Amendment, so writing him does little good. But I still write him now and then. > About the last sentence, we are in agreement, but I'm not so sure > about > the 90% waste figure, would like to know where it came from, but it > sounds too much like the tripe that the "Howard Jarvis Taxpayers > Association" propaganda spews all over California ballots every > election, and which dropped the nation's best educational system to > 49th place. Any time I hear someone (or a group) identify themselves > as a taxpayer, I know that I'm in for some crap about the obvious > evils of da big bad gummint. You're not the first person I've heard say that, and whenever I hear it, I immediately think of the US Taxpayers Party, a scary bunch of people if ever there was one, which recently changed its name to the Constitution Party, slightly less scary but only just. Neither is what their name suggests, at all. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
