$35,000 for flowers

[Tyme2fish]

Chubminnow: Members of Congress do read e-mails and will respond to your letter with a "form" letter. At least you get to know that they are aware of your stance on a particular issue.

If enough of their constituents let them know how they feel, I tend to believe that they want to get re-elected and will vote the wishes of the majority of their voters. I know that's really naive, but at least I can tell them how I feel.

[Tyme2fish]

Web sites:

http://www.senate.gov/

http://www.house.gov/

http://www.whitehouse.gov/

[Grumpy]

Chub, Tyme2fish is right on, and thanks to him for providing the web sites to contact the Presidnet, Senators and Congress.

Every politician has staffers in their offices that don't do anything but answer mail and make sure their boss knows what was written about.

I have written letters to every President since and including Dwight D. Eisenhower and I have written to all most all of my Senators and Congressmen during that same time. I have visited the local offices of several Congressmen and Senatores and I have seen firsthand how constituent correspondence is handled, always by staffers. That is their job!! They are supposed to read the letter (or email today), make a tick mark whether the person is for or against a particular topic; prepare a rely (either individually or computer generated); and use a auto-pen or an ink stamp to sign the letter, then mail it. Unless there is something unusual, the politician never sees the mail, the staffers just inform them periodically what there are getting.

The vast majority of Americans don't vote, much less take the time to write their Representatives, Senators or President; therefore, the politicians, depending on the topic, assume that for every letter or email they do get, there are X number of other people that feel the same way.

If more people took the time to vote AND INFORM THE POLITICIANS OF WHAT THEY WANT OR DON'T WANT, we wouldn't be in the trouble we are now. Email from the websites Tyme provided is good but I still believe that personal, snail mail, letters are viewed as more important and given more weight.

Grumpy

[Tyme2fish]

Email from the websites Tyme provided is good but I still believe that personal, snail mail, letters are viewed as more important and given more weight.

Grump, I agree that a snail mail takes more time and effort and may carry more weight.

But I'm a cheap old retired S.O.B. and can't afford the stamp!!!

[Chubminnow]

The letter I sent via the internet this morning went like this:

Mr. McConnell,

This is my first time writing to a government official but with all the spending going on these days, well let's just say I'm a common man with common sense and I'm now I'm past the point of laying back without speaking up on certain things when they have been brought to my attention.

The subect matter is the spending of $35,000.00 dollars for flowers by Nancy Pelosi. Nancy Pelosi spent $35,000 of our tax money for flowers? According to her the money was spent on Jack Kemp's funeral. Mr. McConnell when is the last time you spent company money on flowers for a fallen coworker? You pay for flowers out of your own pocket, or you take up a collection from various co-workers who wish to donate money if they want to or if they can afford to, sometimes a company might match the employer's contributions.

The spending of money like it's growing on tree's has got to stop NOW!

Thanks for reading.

Tim Caudill