Comments on: contacting elected officials

Question: contacting elected officials

chefscotticus — Sun, 30 Jul 2006 11:05:07 -0800

Is there an online tool that simplifies writing similar letters to each of one's elected officials?

When NPR was pushing it's listeners to contact Congress a while back (to support more NPR funding), it had a tool on its webpage that allowed you to write a letter online, and then by inputting your home address, get that letter sent individually to each of your elected representatives, with their respective titles inserted as appropriate (Dear [senator/rep name here]...).

There are lots of sites out there that will give me a listing of my representatives, but i want to find a tool that allows me to write an email/letter only once and have individualized versions sent to the officials i select.

My googling has failed me -- is there anything like this out there?

By: SirStan

SirStan — Sun, 30 Jul 2006 11:10:04 -0800

You may wish to reference this askmefi about the relevance of such tools.

By: davcoo

davcoo — Sun, 30 Jul 2006 11:23:51 -0800

www.congress.org lets you do this, at least for the President and members of Congress. Look for Write Your Officials on the left side of the home page.

By: hyperfascinated

hyperfascinated — Sun, 30 Jul 2006 14:13:09 -0800

Vote.com does this for you as well, but it seems that it doesn't let you read the letters before they are sent.