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For H.R. 9495 I emailed my Representative because I was not feeling up to a phone call, but this morning I tried calling my Senators and neither picked up.
While I have no way of knowing if my email was ever read, if the call doesn't connect, they will guaranteedly not get my message.
Does anyone have any tips on contacting your Congresspeople by phone (ie: best time to call, best office to call, etc)?
In case anybody stumbles upon my comment later and is also looking for the answer: I had much better luck today calling their local offices (not the DC offices).
Something I like to do is to take their call scripts and mail them as signed letters. Phone calls can be useful, sure (when they're answered or the answering machine isn't full or disabled), but my understanding is that written letters are taken more seriously in those offices. The order of significance, as it was explained to me, goes email -> phone call -> letter.
Ughh.. I have to talk to someone?
...I don't know, maybe fascism isn't as bad as they make it out to be, ya know?
:P
Voting was already too much effort to save democracy.