From Doug & Mary,
Below you will find a letter we are sending to the people who (fail to) represent us. If we all send similar letters, it may have an impact. I would encourage any and all to either use this as a template or to devise one in your own words. If you concur, please forward it to your contacts for wider dissemination.
Emails to Congresspeople are pretty much a waste of time. Petitions are useless. The only things that get attention are phone calls and letters – letters signed by the senders and including your address. It is generally better to send letters to an address in-state rather than in DC. Hence, I recommend sending this to your two senators and one congressperson, especially if they are Republican. To look up the contact info on your representatives, you can start by going to:
www.govtrack.us/....
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To: senator or congressman
(put in the representative’s name and address)
Dear ___,
If you vote in favor of any measure to reduce, mitigate or nullify any measures to weaken ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION, you will forever lose the votes from this household and from the vast majority of people whom we know.
If you vote in favor of any measure to reduce, mitigate or nullify the ROE v WADE decision, you will forever lose the votes from this household and from the vast majority of people whom we know.
If you vote in favor of any measure to enact a blatantly unconstitutional MUSLIM REGISTRY, you will forever lose the votes from this household and from the vast majority of people whom we know.
If you vote in favor of any measure to “round up” and deport – without careful review – massive numbers of UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANTS, you will forever lose the votes from this household and from the vast majority of people whom we know.
There are certain things that can be adequately covered ONLY by the government, including those below. Privatizing them or eliminating them only harms – or kills – people with little in the way of alternatives.
If you vote in favor of any measure to reduce, mitigate, privatize or nullify MEDICARE, you will forever lose the votes from this household and from the vast majority of people whom we know.
If you vote in favor of any measure to reduce, mitigate, privatize or nullify MEDICAID, you will forever lose the votes from this household and from the vast majority of people whom we know.
If you vote in favor of any measure to reduce, mitigate, privatize or nullify SOCIAL SECURITY, you will forever lose the votes from this household and from the vast majority of people whom we know.
If you vote in favor of any measure to reduce, mitigate, privatize or nullify the AFFORDABLE CARE ACT (OBAMACARE) – unless you replace it with a robust MEDICARE program, you will forever lose the votes from this household and from the vast majority of people whom we know.
Instead of rewarding billionaires for being rich by lowering their taxes even more, we need to end this reverse-Robin Hood scenario and begin to require them to pay their fair share into the economy.
Douglas McGaw Mary McGaw
(place address here) (place address here)