Writing Representatives

Get off My Lawn Whatever Remains Contents Salutation Introduce Yourself Explain Summarize and Close Addressing Possible Opportunity Urgency Meetings Caveats After pushing out my post on elections and beyond last weekend, somebody drew my attention to a small oversight in the post. Well, I call it small in the context of that post, which mostly revolved around holding your nose and voting for the candidate who you have the best chance of pushing in the right direction, and that doesn’t include the pushing part. Yes, for all I talked about regularly writing your elected officials to nudge them in the right direction, I ignore how to do that. Let’s walk through that in a brief post now, so that you can get your letters ready. Get off My Lawn I want to first talk a little about what this does not involve. To the extent that you can manage, don’t treat this message like coordinating lunch with your friends. Don’t try to dazzle anybody with your technical expertise. That means the…

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