Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site uwmacc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!uwvax!uwmacc!rick From: rick@uwmacc.UUCP (the absurdist) Newsgroups: net.followup Subject: Re: Lets get 1600 Penn. Ave on the net. Message-ID: <509@uwmacc.UUCP> Date: Sat, 1-Dec-84 18:09:05 EST Article-I.D.: uwmacc.509 Posted: Sat Dec 1 18:09:05 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 4-Dec-84 05:30:37 EST References: <330@stcvax.UUCP> <210@calmasd.UUCP> Reply-To: rick@uwmacc.UUCP (Rick Keir) Organization: UWisconsin-Madison Academic Comp Center Lines: 48 Summary: Of course the President doesn't answer his own phone... [ Are you out there, Bug? ] I don't think there's any point in sending E-Mail to the White House; or any other form of mail. You should call your Congressional Representative, or write him/her. They represent a small enough segment of the population to actually read what you say; and are selected by a small enough segment of the voting population (ESPECIALLY during the primaries) to be motivated by self-interest to pay attention to you. I know from experience that at least some read anything that is addressed to them personally. <....> represents omissions from the jpm's article. In article <210@calmasd.UUCP> jpm@calmasd.UUCP (John McNally) writes: >About six weeks ago I called the Exec Office to express my views <.... on the recent bombings of abortion clinics ....> > The person dealing with me on the phone seemed >uninformed. They responded to my concern with "Bombings?? I >hadn't heard anything about that", with a unsubtle implication that I >was just a crank caller. "I'm sorry, I'm not authorized to answer that question. Have you contacted your local Business Office? Their phone number is..." I used to say that a lot at a job I had one summer. No business allows just anyone to be making policy statements over the phone. Why should the Govt. be any different? > <....> Until we can change >the attitude of the White House toward such forms of contact with >the American people, I don't think that any such mechanisms are >very useful. >John McNally Calma 11080 Roselle St. San Diego CA 92121 >...{ucbvax,decvax}!sdcsvax!calmasd!jpm (619)-458-3230 Politics is a collection of substitutes for personal contact between the candidate & the voter. There just aren't any good ways to allow contact with the President. There ARE ways to get personal contact your Representatives, so use them. -- "But Dinsdale...Dinsdale usedsarcasm!" we all know where this quote came from, don't we? Rick Keir -- MicroComputer Information Center, MACC 1210 West Dayton St/U Wisconsin Madison/Mad WI 53706 {allegra, ihnp4, seismo}!uwvax!uwmacc!rick