Troy has offered up five very strong strategies, especially his 5th one. The letters to all of them are good.....but the truth of the matter is that all of these people are politicians. If a constituent from their home district writes, calls or emails them, most of them will at least take an interest and hear what their own constituent from back home has to say. After all it is the local people from their home districts who voted them into office. They will listen and pay attention to these people from their districts but if they get a letter, email or fax from someone outside of their own district or from out of state, they are much less likely going to pay any attention to it because these are not people who represent potential votes for them. We would be much more effective if we could find a person or a delegation of people who live in each of these representative's home districts who would be willing to contact their local representative(s) to make our points to him/her/them.



I also agree that it is mostly wasted energy to put a lot of effort into contacting the representative who introduced this bill or the committee members who blessed it. They have already taken a stance on the issue. What we need now is enough votes to keep their bill from passing.
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Gerald Keown

Southwestern Center for Herpetological Research

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