There’s also an alternate script if you want to talk with a Republican senator, and you don’t feel they’ll be swayed by the language in the linked site.

  • mozz@mbin.grits.devOP
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    11 months ago

    That’s actually not true. Keeping their job depends on winning elections, and their staff absolutely keeps track of who from their constituency calls or contacts their office and expresses a particular opinion on a particular issue. Because if someone cares enough to call, they definitely care enough to vote, and if one issue gets a ton of call-ins it’s a strong indication to them about how people are going to vote about that particular issue.

    It’s not the whole story; legalized bribery has a lot to do with how they make their decisions also. But saying they completely ignore people calling in and telling them how they feel about particular issues is ridiculous.

    Here’s a citation for it. I don’t know if you want to listen to that person any more than you want to listen to me, but it’s accurate.