How To Get The Attention of Elected Officials

We Vote




[From article]
Using a combination of programming wizardry and personal experience gained from navigating the legislative process, these men have constructed the “We Vote Project.” It is a game-changer in every sense of the phrase.
Here’s the short version: money and influence crowd out citizen involvement. Letters, phone calls, and e-mails to representatives are often counted rather than read. Unless you bring a large constituency with you, your ideas or opinions are of little to no interest to your elected leaders. Right or wrong, this is simply how the system has evolved to deal with digitally enabled increases in communication.
Likewise, following legislation is time-consuming and nightmarish for the average voter. The process is maddening, made all the more difficult by a phalanx of lobbyists, staffers, and “stakeholders” who muddy the water to hide their agendas. Not to mention the public hearings, almost exclusively scheduled during the working hours of us normal folk who can’t afford to miss out on the pay.
Compounding the problem is a gatekeeping media, who routinely limit the scope of discussion by determining what gets coverage, while increasingly pushing an agenda of their own.
The We Vote Project shatters these barriers. Indeed, it obliterates them.
From their website:
We provide timely access to information on legislation in state legislatures (as well as nationally) and provide a verified way for citizens to express their opinions on an issue with their representative.
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A congressman, senator, or even city councilperson remains utterly unmoved by vast numbers of calls, letters, or e-mails, knowing that the likelihood that these communications are genuine and organic from his district is quite remote.
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The We Vote Project is to politics what the internet has been to funny cat videos. Prepare to be dazzled by the mind-baby of a few Nebraska guys who decided that politics is a wheel that needed reinvention.

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/01/nebraska_david_outmaneuvers_global_goliath.html

January 15, 2015
A Nebraska David Outmaneuvers a Global Goliath
By Joe Herring