Rati Gupta
Jul 25, 2017 · 1 min read

Members of Congress will only tally calls from their own constituents. Polite staffers will let you finish your thoughts, but they won’t be relayed to the Congressperson or logged into the software (digital messages from non-constituents are automatically filtered out). But, most importantly, non-constituent calls give Reps and Senators an excuse to dismiss their entire call log — “Well, all those calls were from California!” And we really can’t let that happen. It would hurt the ability of actual constituents in those districts to be heard.

Definitely keep calling your reps even if they agree with you! If you have a good quote or story, they can use them in speeches on the floor, and the encouragement helps them to fight even harder.

    Rati Gupta

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    Actor / Writer / Activism Activator @make5calls