, April 23, 2002 11:21 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re: contacting congress /
There are roughly a million companies that do this in DC. I don't know that
any of them will give you access to raw data, and it really isn't that
simple. You are best off buying a package from one of these advocacy
companies
There are several activist sites that have an email your congress person
section...Since I'm at work I don't have any urls to give you but I receive
info like that from that like Natural Resources Defense Council
http://www.nrdc.org/default.asp
and I know one of the organizations pushing for non
Another thing to keep in mind - e-mail to our elected officials is
pretty worthless. Most don't understand the medium and never look at
them. Just something to consider.
David Groth, Analyst/Programmer III
HSC Library Informatics Center, University of New Mexico
505.272.8406 e-mail: [EMAIL
Hopefully someone else has a better resource than below - this is very
limited:
It's not a 100% solution, however There's a page at the US Senate site with
links to all the senators - many have email, some have a link only to an
online form - you could grab the text and parse out all the
Another thing to keep in mind - e-mail to our elected
officials is pretty worthless. Most don't understand
the medium and never look at them. Just something to
consider.
Most elected officials don't read their own regular mail, either - they
have staff members to sort out both of these.
There's also already service that does this: www.capwiz.com
Ian
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From: David Groth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2002 7:13 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re: contacting congress /
Another thing to keep in mind - e-mail to our elected officials
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Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2002 10:32 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: contacting congress /
Another thing to keep in mind - e-mail to our elected
officials is pretty worthless. Most don't understand
the medium and never look at them. Just something to
consider.
Most elected officials
That's not entirely true, David.
I worked on Capitol Hill for several years as a contractor and was able
to visit almost all of the offices of our elected officials. It is true
that all of the offices will screen your mail, and that this process may
boil your comments down to a check box in the
There are roughly a million companies that do this in DC. I don't know that any of
them will give you access to raw data, and it really isn't that simple. You are best
off buying a package from one of these advocacy companies. Some senators and reps
have online forms that constituents need
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