Empower Texans has a deal - write your letter, concerns, comments, etc. to your representatives and they will hand delivery for FREE your message. This is a great deal! Just use this link: http://www.empowertexans.com/node/768.
Write a letter to any member of the Texas Legislature and they will hand deliver it on plain paper to their Capitol office. When the letter is delivered, they will notify you by e-mail. They will not deliver a letter in all caps nor a letter with foul language. The best guideline is a letter you would like to receive personally! Do unto others as you would like them to do unto you.
One cannot overestimate the power of constituent communications on elected officials. As they say in football, you never win the games you don’t play. Given the general apathy in the public towards governing issues, it’s no wonder we lose – we don’t show up!
Indeed, the most effective way to communicate with an elected official begins simply with communicating with the elected official. As U.S. Sen. Everett Dirksen pointed out, he only saw the light when he felt the heat – the heat of his constituents.
Very often lawmakers – even those who genuinely believe in our ideas – can be swayed simply by the argument that “your voters won’t care.” You and I can put the lie to that position simply be letting our elected officials know that we do, indeed, care deeply about the votes they take. Our communications remind them that we are watching.
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