So I'm a little disappointed. I wrote my state rep and senator 8 days ago on several bills that are making their way through the legislature and I have yet to even get a response. I gave my opinion on about a dozen bills so I'm not expecting a response on his thoughts on all of them, but I was expecting some polite response thanking me for the email. Should I send the letter via snail mail instead?
What experiences have others had with their state reps?
Quote from: Nik on February 15, 2011, 07:22:31 PM
So I'm a little disappointed. I wrote my state rep and senator 8 days ago on several bills that are making their way through the legislature and I have yet to even get a response. I gave my opinion on about a dozen bills so I'm not expecting a response on his thoughts on all of them, but I was expecting some polite response thanking me for the email. Should I send the letter via snail mail instead?
What experiences have others had with their state reps?
Last time I sent a rep an email I got a response via snailmail a few weeks later.
Call, fax and e-mail. If no response, then keep up the pressure. When I wanted to contact Coburn or Inhofe, I called them and got an instant response from their staff.
I sent emails to Coburn and Inhofe regarding earmarks awhile back. It was about 2-3 weeks in getting a reply.
Quote from: Conan71 on February 16, 2011, 11:32:06 AM
I sent emails to Coburn and Inhofe regarding earmarks awhile back. It was about 2-3 weeks in getting a reply.
I sent an email to Tom Coburn last year about earmarks and got a response in about an hour. Perhaps he gets busy frying bacon.
Yesterday he was rallying to recover old earmarks that are sitting around collecting dust. On of my favorites he mentioned are millions of federal dollars sitting in Atlanta waiting to be spent on the 1996 Olympics.
In total it's estimated that the porkulus and other programs have produced half a billion in orphaned earmarks that remain unspent, yet allocated.
Small beans compared to the billions the administration is flushing daily, but this is Coburn's bag, and his flashlight makes the roaches scatter.
You never miss an opportunity to bash Obama...
I believe this thread is about contacting our representatives...
Quote from: RecycleMichael on February 17, 2011, 08:08:03 AM
You never miss an opportunity to bash Obama...
I believe this thread is about contacting our representatives...
I've just gotten to where I PLONK him. He's beginning to resemble a more right-wing version of AOX/FOTD anyway.
Quote from: RecycleMichael on February 17, 2011, 08:08:03 AM
You never miss an opportunity to bash Obama...
I believe this thread is about contacting our representatives...
Just shut it RM. Jeez. Rep. Giffords gets shot in the head and nearly dies and on the first page of the thread on the subject a massive jerk in this forum brings up Sarah Palin.
http://www.tulsanow.org/forum/index.php?topic=16899.0
Quote from: guido911 on February 17, 2011, 09:11:56 AM
Just shut it RM. Jeez. Rep. Giffords gets shot in the head and nearly dies and on the first page of the thread on the subject a massive jerk in this forum brings up Sarah Palin.
Your show is getting boring.
You enjoy bringing up that a democrat got shot in the head?
Quote from: Townsend on February 17, 2011, 09:15:21 AM
Your show is getting boring.
You enjoy bringing up that a democrat got shot in the head?
You're being a huge jackass. I have been nothing but impressed and awestruck over her toughness and you want to demean me over that? You are freakin boring.
Quote from: guido911 on February 17, 2011, 09:17:27 AM
You're being a huge jackass. I have been nothing but impressed and awestruck over her toughness and you want to demean me over that? You are freakin boring.
No defense for your comments so you verbally attack? Typical.
Quote from: Townsend on February 17, 2011, 09:18:19 AM
No defense for your comments so you verbally attack? Typical.
First, I didn't call you out. This is between me and RM, who apparently forgets that in this forum nearly everything bad is on Palin. Second, I do not need to defend anything but the facts. It appears that no matter what the subject, lefties can't resist but attack Palin. But oh, link Obama in any way to a subject, then let the whining commence!!!
Incidentally, on the subject of crying, who was the poster that vowed to stay out of this specific forum because it got a little rough?
Quote from: guido911 on February 17, 2011, 09:31:50 AM
First, I didn't call you out. This is between me and RM, who apparently forgets that in this forum nearly everything bad is on Palin. Second, I do not need to defend anything but the facts. It appears that no matter what the subject, lefties can't resist but attack Palin. But oh, link Obama in any way to a subject, then let the whining commence!!!
Incidentally, on the subject of crying, who was the poster that vowed to stay out of this specific forum because it got a little rough?
Your Palin shtick is repetitive. You see or bring up attacks when there are none.
There was no vow. I took off for a while because of lunatic statements made by some posters that just got too negative. It was all there was. I came back when there were interesting subjects again.
Here you are on a completely unrelated subject talking about someone getting shot in the head and then hoping people will feel sorry for a personality making money off of the confused minions.
Quote from: Townsend on February 17, 2011, 09:42:51 AM
Your Palin shtick is repetitive. You see or bring up attacks when there are none.
There was no vow. I took off for a while because of lunatic statements made by some posters that just got too negative. It was all there was. I came back when there were interesting subjects again.
Here you are on a completely unrelated subject talking about someone getting shot in the head and then hoping people will feel sorry for a personality making money off of the confused minions.
No. This thread is about e-mailing reps and when one poster dared to stray off on the slightest of tangents, RM complains. I was pointing out the unbelievable gall of some folks in this forum and you decide to jump in. And yes, your Obama spooning shtick is still boring.
Quote from: guido911 on February 17, 2011, 09:59:23 AM
And yes, your Obama spooning shtick is still boring.
At least try to be more original.
BTW, Obama spooning? When and where? I post articles and back up my posts. I don't see imaginary attacks on someone like some crazy person.
Keep on keepin' on.
Quote from: Townsend on February 17, 2011, 10:05:53 AM
At least try to be more original.
BTW, Obama spooning? When and where? I post articles and back up my posts. I don't see imaginary attacks on someone like some crazy person.
Whatever.
Quote from: guido911 on February 17, 2011, 10:07:52 AM
Whatever.
Insightful. ;D
BTW, I'm glad you think of me as a 'massive jerk'. Not surprising you throw out the ad-hominem. All I did was point out what other media outlets, at the time, were pointing out. All except Fox, of course.
But, as you so succinctly put it...whatever.
Apologies.
I didn't realize that my thread-creep in discussing contacting Coburn, and how his "mission" relates to the current administration, was such a tender point.
I apologize if the thread is too gossamer.
I will try harder to leave Brittney alone.
Come on guys, keep it classy.
I found Gaspar's post informative based on the info on stranded former earmarks. Was the comment on how the administration is spending money like a newly-minted lottery winner relevant? Not really, but every poster has the right to summarize their comments as they see fit.
Quote from: Conan71 on February 17, 2011, 10:48:17 AM
n how the administration is spending money like a newly-minted lottery winner relevant?
Obama hater!
Quote from: Gaspar on February 17, 2011, 10:46:41 AM
I will try harder to leave Brittney alone.
Well you had better. :D
I agree with guido that threads on national politics quickly blamed Palin.
Don't worry, her fifteen minutes of fame are over. She will soon become desperate for attention and start doing TV commercials for potato chips or riding around on a bike dressed as Santa.
Quote from: RecycleMichael on February 17, 2011, 09:13:57 PM
I agree with guido that threads on national politics quickly blamed Palin.
Don't worry, her fifteen minutes of fame are over. She will soon become desperate for attention and start doing TV commercials for potato chips or riding around on a bike dressed as Santa.
She is the left hand waving in the air. While moonbats focus on her, they see nothing of what the right hand is doing. Don't think for a moment she does not know this. As long as she parades around the media as a strong independent woman, hatred on the left will grow. At this point she is simply a tool. A distraction. A red cape to wave in front of the bulls.
But be careful. . .if she can garner enough hatred and bile from the left she may run as a victim, and in that guise she may pull votes from moderate liberal groups, because the left loves their women as victims. If she can go from strong independent woman to victim at the hand of the far-left, watch out.
It's an interesting ballet.
Quote from: RecycleMichael on February 17, 2011, 08:08:03 AM
You never miss an opportunity to bash Obama...
I believe this thread is about contacting our representatives...
With the Soft-balls Obama tosses up it's easy to bash them out of the park....
Quote from: Gaspar on February 18, 2011, 07:58:09 AM
She is the left hand waving in the air. While moonbats focus on her, they see nothing of what the right hand is doing. Don't think for a moment she does not know this. As long as she parades around the media as a strong independent woman, hatred on the left will grow. At this point she is simply a tool. A distraction. A red cape to wave in front of the bulls.
But be careful. . .if she can garner enough hatred and bile from the left she may run as a victim, and in that guise she may pull votes from moderate liberal groups, because the left loves their women as victims. If she can go from strong independent woman to victim at the hand of the far-left, watch out.
It's an interesting ballet.
I'm pretty sure you're wrong. Only her moonbats see her as a victim. The rest see her as an opportunist who's made a good living on her moonbats.
Quote from: Townsend on February 18, 2011, 08:58:59 AM
I'm pretty sure you're wrong. Only her moonbats see her as a victim. The rest see her as an opportunist who's made a good living on her moonbats.
You are correct
Leftist women don't seem to identify with a smoking hot, gun-toting, carnivorous, former 1/2 term governor.
Though I think there are leftist men who secretly would like to sleep with her.
She doesn't appeal to me. Maybe it's because I've already got a woman who knows how to fish, hunt, politically (and fiscally) conservative, and is smoking hot, only she's not a quitter ;)
Quote from: Conan71 on February 18, 2011, 09:01:55 AM
Though I think there are leftist men who secretly would like to sleep with her.
That is unfair. Most men would have also accepted a date with Monica Lewinsky.
Quote from: RecycleMichael on February 18, 2011, 09:06:30 AM
That is unfair. Most men would have also accepted a date with Monica Lewinsky.
KAPOW
Quote from: RecycleMichael on February 18, 2011, 09:06:30 AM
That is unfair. Most men would have also accepted a date with Monica Lewinsky.
Well played! Have you seen pics of her lately? I don't think there's a long line of guys waiting to take her out, special skills or not. Could you imagine bringing her home to meet the extended family over the holidays? :D
Quote from: Conan71 on February 18, 2011, 09:08:37 AM
Well played! Have you seen pics of her lately? I don't think there's a long line of guys waiting to take her out, special skills or not. Could you imagine bringing her home to meet the extended family over the holidays? :D
She's working her way up to a Weight Watcher's sponsorship.
It's all about what you put in your mouth.
Quote from: Gaspar on February 18, 2011, 10:00:11 AM
She's working her way up to a Weight Watcher's sponsorship.
It's all about what you put in your mouth.
Or other places...
(http://cigarbiz.net/Factory-Seconds-Cigars/18.jpg)
Smok'em if ya got em....hah....