If you are a principled conservative – or just a taxpaying and\/or gun-owning citizen who’s sick of being taken for a ripe suck and\/or a “potential criminal” – you have two orders of business before you today:<\/p>\n
I put “Or email” in tiny type because, as Kevin <\/a>correctly notes in the comment section<\/a>, “Emails make little difference, they get alot of them. Faxes, and especially calls, are more likely to make an impact”.<\/p>\n He’s right, of course. Emails are cheap; everyone<\/em> writes ’em, and way too many of them are the equivalent of political spam – one email with hundreds of legislators on the cc: line. So – find and call (or email<\/font>) your Senator<\/a>, and then do the same with your Representative<\/a>.<\/p>\n Be polite. But tell ’em where you sit.<\/p>\n Because nothing says “democracy” like the knowledge that the constituents are not only watching, but they’re pissed, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" If you are a principled conservative – or just a taxpaying and\/or gun-owning citizen who’s sick of being taken for a ripe suck and\/or a “potential criminal” – you have two orders of business before you today: Call or fax (or email) your Republican representative (and\/or as many other Republican representatives as you can) to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-minnesota-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nBut legislators, like talk show hosts, know that every phone call they get represents 100 other people who didn’t call.<\/p>\n