Response to my Representative **UPDATED**

[handejector]

Cut me some slack.
Do too bein a nativ born suthnur, that thare waz the bess I cud dew.

 

[handejector]

You flubbed again! The group IS.

I were mistaken?

 

[DevilDog72]

Jim,

Good stuff............... good luck with that.
I fear the bulk of our elected officials could care less what you or I think. They are just going through the motions to give the impression they give a ****.... rip

 

[jlrhiner]

I were mistaken?

Don't worry fella's, I'll re-write it in English

 

[da gimp]

Jim, Lee thanks for the excellent post & ideas for the letter to Claire. Jim, did you thing about sending it to the St. Louis newspaper's editorial page & the Kansas City Stars editorial page? I figure the odds on getting either to run it are as slim as getting Claire to change her position on firearms... but it never hurts to try...

I'm much the same as Jim... retired union construction worker... and always thought of myself as a Blue Dog Democrat... and like Jim.. I never hesitated to remind whichever local, state or national politician I wrote to, or whose office I called... that most union construction workers are conservative, are very pro-firearms and we always vote in an election & remember who supported our right to own guns...

 

[Aticus]

I flubbed a sentence badly in the 3rd para.
It should read something more like this-

It has become painfully evident that one group of people are trying to write legislation for an issue they know nothing.

Lee, how about: It has become painfully evident that one group of people are trying to write legislation for an issue about which they know nothing.

 

[Comrad]

I'm afraid they are in the business of writing legislation that is most likely to get them reelected.

 

[retnavyshooter]

I wish you the best in your quest. I put little faith in our legislators paying attention to (1) constituent, numbers count, hence the unions, NRA etc.

 

[dougb1946]

with no recourse.

or "no due process", as should be required when losing a civil right.

My experience is that letters and e-mails tend to get screened by flunkies who check mark pro or anti on a spread sheet. The elected one sees the spread sheet, and you get added to their mailing list for Christmas cards.

 

[M29since14]

...The elected one sees the spread sheet, and you get added to their mailing list for Christmas cards.

And the list soliciting funds for re-election.

 

[DevilDog72]

well.... uh....just how can we fix their inattention? I have tried letters, phone calls event went to one St. Sen office just to be ignored.

Only one to answer any questions was Sen. Ted Cruz's flunkies.

 

[jlrhiner]

I am by no means an authority on congress critters, but being involved with the election process by supporting the candidates is the best way to get their attention. And not just by writing a check. Get involved with the legwork too. If your congress critter recognizes you as an active supporter, you stand a much better chance of making your point.

 

[mercury37]

And if they recognize that you will work to take votes away from them because of their stance on issues you will get attention and feed back.

 

[Kevin J.]

Great letter, I wishI could give you more than one like. Just a note to you as a life long democrat. This is not our fathers, or even our Democratic Party any more. JFK was a card carrying NRA member, strong national defense, welfare as a hand up not hand out, tax cut democrat. Not like the bunch we have now. With that said this is not TR's Republican Party either.

 

[DWalt]

Great letter, I wishI could give you more than one like. Just a note to you as a life long democrat. This is not our fathers, or even our Democratic Party any more. JFK was a card carrying NRA member, strong national defense, welfare as a hand up not hand out, tax cut democrat. Not like the bunch we have now. With that said this is not TR's Republican Party either.

It was formerly NRA's practice to present incoming presidents with an honorary lifetime NRA membership. In fact, NRA presented Kennedy with a custom M1 Garand rifle, which he accepted. I doubt that NRA has done that recently. Wonder what happened to JFK's M1?

 

[magsherman]

Vote for someone else.

 

[Kevin J.]

Wonder what happened to JFK's M1?

Probably ended up like his golf clubs, destroyed, remember the episode of Seinfeld where Kramer and Newhouse ended destroying them.

 

[DWalt]

It's sad that so much effort must be put into writing such a letter, when its fate will be to go directly into the circular file, and be (maybe) responded to by a meaningless form letter.

 

[Sconnie]

It's sad that so much effort must be put into writing such a letter, when its fate will be to go directly into the circular file, and be (maybe) responded to by a meaningless form letter.

And a fundraising pledge card. But if you (the OP) feel it is the way to go then go for it and prove me wrong.

 

[jlrhiner]

And a fundraising pledge card. But if you (the OP) feel it is the way to go then go for it and prove me wrong.

I'm not claiming this as a win, But you'll notice she (Claire) was not among the co-sponsors of the so-called "2015 Assault Weapons Ban".

Hide under your chairs if you wish, but I accomplish more by being involved.