# Who's been calling their Congresscritters? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 16, 2013, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-been-calling-their-congresscritters/671411 "2013-10-16T17:27:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2013, 9:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-been-calling-their-congresscritters/671411/21 "2013-10-17T09:32:17Z")
I just didn’t see the point. My senators were already doing their job, and my representative has shown in the past that he toes the Republican line, and doesn’t care all that much about his Democratic constituents. I mean, it’s not like I’m going to be voting against in the primary. Plus I know first hand how much people hate Obamacare. Someone I once greatly respected called me out in a Facebook post–one where I was being conciliatory about the whole thing, even saying that, if Obamacare did actually fail, I would be first in line trying to get it repealed. I normally don’t unfriend people, but I was really close to doing so for her–the only thing stopping me was that she’s related to some other people I respect and I didn’t want to start anything. Anyways, that whole last paragraph was to say that I would be very overwhelmed by people who thought the exact opposite, to the point of a pastor’s wife responding that way to me. ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2013, 11:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-been-calling-their-congresscritters/671411/22 "2013-10-17T11:02:32Z")
I convinced myself that Tom McClintock would not listen to a word I had to say, so I did not contact him. ---
**Author:** ![Ruken](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f475e1/32.png) [@Ruken](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruken)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2013, 11:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-been-calling-their-congresscritters/671411/23 "2013-10-17T11:07:34Z")
I don’t have congresscritters ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2013, 11:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-been-calling-their-congresscritters/671411/24 "2013-10-17T11:22:53Z")
Up to last year I was in a district with a Congressman who is always in lock step with the Democratic Party. Now its the same but change the party. \* It does not matter what I have to say on an individual issue. \*Sorry, if it wasn’t clear I moved. The Congressmen didn’t change. ---
**Author:** ![DrumBum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e79b87/32.png) [@DrumBum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrumBum)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2013, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-been-calling-their-congresscritters/671411/25 "2013-10-17T12:10:57Z")
I contacted the offices of my two senators ( Feinstein and Boxer ) and House Rep. ( Miller ) via e-mail and I presume some staffer made a note of my comments. All three, for the most part, represent my views. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2013, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-been-calling-their-congresscritters/671411/26 "2013-10-17T13:10:47Z")
> [@John\_DiFool](#): > > My Rep is a country club Repub (my parents have met him on at least one occasion) who has decided to align himself with the TP’ers so as to hang onto his seat (pretty easy anyway when there’s no Dem candidate to run against him like there wasn’t this past election). No way anything I say could possibly influence his mind, assuming he isn’t out on the golf course at the time… Well well well, the bastard caved in on the deal. Hope you enjoy being primaried next year, Crenshaw (Florida District 4). Lord I’d love to get this seat back from the GOP… ---
**Author:** ![Sahirrnee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sahirrnee/32/13937_2.png) [@Sahirrnee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sahirrnee)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2013, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-been-calling-their-congresscritters/671411/27 "2013-10-17T13:23:06Z")
I call them lots of things ‘Critters’ isn’t one of them ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2013, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-been-calling-their-congresscritters/671411/28 "2013-10-17T14:01:07Z")
My Congressman is a Dem, fighting the good fight. My older senator is a Dem & also fighting the good fight. I fought my ass off so the new Senator from my state is named ‘Booker’ and not some bought-and-paid-for Tea-Party shill called Lonegan. They are working hard for my interests and I agree with them. Why in the world would I stop them from doing their very best by calling them to the phone??? ---
**Author:** ![Fretful\_Porpentine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fretful_porpentine/32/2873_2.png) [@Fretful\_Porpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fretful_Porpentine)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2013, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-been-calling-their-congresscritters/671411/29 "2013-10-17T14:11:31Z")
I am a liberal Democrat who lives in Mississippi. There is absolutely no chance anything I might say would have any influence on my congressman. (And, to be honest, it probably _shouldn’t_, since I don’t represent the majority of his constituents, I didn’t vote for him, and I’m unlikely ever to do so in any subsequent election unless the opposing candidate is massively corrupt.) ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Drake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Dr.Drake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Drake)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2013, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-been-calling-their-congresscritters/671411/30 "2013-10-17T14:21:03Z")
None of the above, really. I emailed both senators and the representative, all (D), to express my displeasure at the situation and let them know that though I didn’t blame them for the idiocy, I did hold them responsible. (In other words, sorry you have to deal with these morons, but… you have to deal with these morons.) I sent a post-shutdown thank-you to my rep. Boxer and Feinstein each represent over thirty million people, so I figured they wouldn’t notice the lack of a note from me. **Spice Weasel** , they don’t really care what you say. They just keep a tally of how many of their calls / emails / letters are for or against the issue of the day, and how great the volume is on any given issue. ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2013, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-been-calling-their-congresscritters/671411/31 "2013-10-17T14:56:38Z")
Sent them a few Tweets but that’s it. I realize that my 140 character missives were, at best, tallied by an intern somewhere and no one I’ve heard of actually looked at them. Here in Illinois we had Senator Kirk ® who, by all appearances, spent the shutdown appearing at WWII Memorial photo-ops and then bragging about how he helped forge the bipartisan compromise after it was over. I told him I hope those photo-ops were worth the $24 billion lost to the US economy. The other guy, Senator Durbin (D) is Asst. Majority Leader so at least he was actually working on something. My congressman is a Democrat but there wasn’t much for House Dems to do but wait for the Speaker to finally put out a real bill for them to vote on. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2013, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-been-calling-their-congresscritters/671411/32 "2013-10-17T15:06:14Z")
> [@Ruken](#): > > I don’t have congresscritters ☹ You can have mine. ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2013, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-been-calling-their-congresscritters/671411/33 "2013-10-17T23:50:55Z")
> [@Ruken](#): > > I don’t have congresscritters ☹ Oh, crap, I forgot about you guys! Can I deputize you to go down to my representative’s office with a sign or something? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-been-calling-their-congresscritters/671411.md?page=1)