A few weeks ago, while at a moveon.org phonebanking event, I was speaking to a woman who spends at least an hour of her day writing emails to "letter to the editor" columns. Being in information technology, and feeling like doing some programming, I volunteered to write a small webapp which would allow a person to write an email, and paste it into a form and have it emailed to as many letter to the editor email addresses as we can fit into a mysql database (quite a few).
I started classifying each email by type of media: print or news, and then thought to myself: wouldn't it be nice to be able to email all congressmen, or senators.
I emailed the dnc: no response.
I emailed the california democratic party: no response.
I emailed barbara boxter
I emailed the los angles chapter fo the D.P.
I emaild lots of websites
The only people to get back to me were Kos and the people from the Electronc Frontier Foundation. Kos said he didn't have that info, and the EFF said that they had to pay for access to someone else's database. This to me is gross in a republic, having access to your representatives is amazingly important.
If anyone has access to this information, please let me know.
Thanks in advance,
Nicholas