on calling both DC and local offices

I ended up on some local Indivisible list and saw a post from last month that asserts there's value in calling your federal congressionals' DC and local office, because they don't cross-reference the call lists across offices and "Every single day, the Senior Staff and the Senator get a report of the 3 most-called-about topics for that day at each of their offices (in DC and local offices), and exactly how many people said what about each of those topics."

(This post also reiterates the advice I have seen elsewhere to only talk about 1 issue per call -- I think because of the way calls get tallied.)

I had been thinking of phonecalls as like, "Okay, I told my elected what I thought on this issue and now they know that and I shouldn't call again on future days unless it's REALLY important," but this is motivating me to call more often about stuff.

A longer excerpt of the post is behind the cut. (I also cross-posted this to thisfinecrew.) ( Read more... )