viper1951 said:
I send letters every month to our reps and senators for W#ashington state I even go as far as telling them about the plant and whats it's good for i even send them sites for good information about weed . the problems I see is they are stupid and need to be informed with good info not the hog wash propaganda the government tells them. I send them sites for studies and easy reading . it might not do any good but the way I see it it can't hurt . the more informed they are the better are chances the real ***** in washington state is senator patty murray she needs to go period but I still send her stuff every month . the way I see it is maybe they will get tired of me sending them stuff that they will agree or at least get some education out of it . if it is at all possible to teach them anything
That's an interesting point of view. I wonder who actually reads the letters you send and if they simply have you listed on the "trash" list. Mail rooms all have trash lists that they use. If you're on it, your letters never get opened, just thrown in the barrel.
The effort I'm making is to possibly get the media involved. If the flow of letters is sufficient to get someones attention at the quantity, a person in the flow might contact the media with an interest story. If the letters mount into the millions, I can't see it doing anything but that. I doubt many will even be read beyond basic content, but D.C. Big-Wigs have a habit of taking vote counts from their mail. Some lower level person opens, briefly reads enough to tell content, and then marks it down and throws it in a pile.
*IF*, and that's a big *IF*, enough letters arrive that are "Pro-legalization", then it might make a point to the media who would be the ones who actually bring it into the spotlight, if it ever makes it that far.
I'm pretty pessimistic about how D.C. works. That's a hard-nosed bunch of people who really don't care about much beyond their own paycheck. If you can interest them in something and make them *WORRY* that it might somehow affect their paycheck later, THEN you have their attention. These are people who will murder and eat kittens and puppies. They pretty much have hearts of stone and minds like cash drawers.
Waiting for a politician to "Do the right thing" is like waiting for a pyromaniac to pass you a fire extinguisher. It might happen, but only if you promise him a thousand more fires.
We'll see at the end of this coming January if this effort produces anything.
My letter will be written and mailed on January 20th, 2010. For it to have full impact, all the letters need to be mailed on the same day.
