This week's events have cast a bright light on the workings of state legislatures, and highlighted for many of us the importance of making our views known. One of the comments I hear from people (not just students) is that they don't know who their legislators are, and they have no idea how to contact them.
Thanks to the wonder that is the internet, there are a couple of websites that help you do just that. They are non-partisan. You type in your address at the website, and it tells you who represents you at the state house and at the state senate. You can then access a page about each legislator by clicking on that person's name, and the page contains a hyperlink to the legislator's email address. I will add the link to the website over to the right on this page where my other links are collected.
Legislators may do things that some--or even most--of us do not agree with. Nonetheless, they are people, and they are professionals, and they should be addressed as such. Name-calling and threats have no place in any professional correspondence.
I am polite to people, not because they are polite to me, but because I am a polite person.
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