On Nov 20, 2007, at 1:09 PM, Eric Chevalier wrote:
On 18 Nov 2007 21:59:37 -0800,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ed Gould) wrote:
Doesn't our elected officials have a clue what is going on?
Of course not. All y'all are too busy sitting here bitching in
IBM-Main instead of pounding on your Congressperson or Senator's door.
Tell me Ed, what's the name of *your* Congressional representative,
and when was the last time you picked up the phone and called him/her?
Eric
Eric,
Hahaha yesterday, and I regularly call weekly. I also email, before
email it was letter time (yes snail mail) and I even have a lunch
with my state rep at least once a year. Sometimes he is clueless and
sometimes he is on the ball and can actually talk about issues. I am
on a first name basis with my state rep as I campaigned for him 2
years ago. Though my lack of city politics is particularly bad as up
until the last election the alderman was the classic Chicago
politician. I did work on his opponents champaign leading to the
defeat of the Alderman. I email the new alderman about monthly. The
email last time got me a phone call from him personally with a
promise to look into the items I wrote to him about.
I would cut and paste it but it would exceed the 100 line limit of
IBM-Main. The bad part of this whole mess is that the democratic and
the republicans are in a war camp like stance and they constantly
fight and bicker. Nothing gets done. Right now our public
transportation system is threatened because of politics (funding),
its almost like the civil war here in Il.
Ed
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