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Saviolo

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13. Calling someone else's representative is potentially taking someone's voice away
Wed Dec 27, 2017, 04:29 PM
Dec 2017

I agree, it's time to flood those lines. I've done my share of calling in issues, but only to my rep. There are lots of angry, active, and motivated people that want to hear from their constituents, and lots of those constituents want to get in there to boost that message. If I'm calling a representative who is not mine, I might be clogging up the phone line for someone who will be even more deeply and directly affected by that representative's actions.

Has less to do with ethics and more to do with letting the people whose voices need to be heard be heard. Speak with those voices, not for them.

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