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- From: harelb@math.cornell.edu (Harel Barzilai)
- Subject: re: Email to congress
- Message-ID: <1993Jan3.064327.8343@mont.cs.missouri.edu>
- Followup-To: alt.activism.d
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- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 06:43:27 GMT
- Approved: map@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
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- You can call the congressional switchboard and voice your opinion by
- asking for your representative's office.
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- Tell your representative you want them to make it possible for the
- public to send them email.
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- Local number of U.S. Congress switchboard (202) 224-3121
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- [When you reach the Capitol Hill switchboard, simply ask to be
- connected to the office of the Member, Senator or committee you
- want to reach. Please call during normal business hours on the
- East Coast.]
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-
- On another issue, and following up on my comments on the distressing
- situation in "Re: goodbye" [this taken from alt.activism:]
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- Topic 125 Re: [misc.activism.progressive] Cl Response 3 of 8
- mitcheec
- alt.activism 7:40 pm Dec 30, 1992
- (at ctrvx1.vanderbilt.edu) (From News system)
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- I'm as much in favor of e.communication to our congressmembers as anyone,
- although I think if there was a direct route from constituents' computers
- to the members, that a somewhat conservative viewpoint would dominate.
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- Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems that political conservatives seem
- more likely to take up new technology than liberals. Liberals seem to be
- neo-Luddites in this respect.
-
- I didn't realize that for some time until I heard Rush Limbaugh point out
- that only liberals still have rotary telephones. All I can say is I'm a
- liberal and I mostly have rotary telephones in my house. (That's one of the
- things Rush is good for, he makes liberals think about themselves
- (ourselves)). So my point is that if a member were to rely heavily on
- input that came through electronic means (meaning e.mail) that the more
- conservative elements in society might have the upper hand. No?
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