Find Contact Info - Legislators

Click here to go to the 'Who's your legislator?" page at in.gov.

Enter your Zip and find your legislators.  If you know your zip+4 thats better... it might well ask you for it.  Gerrymandering you know.

You may have to zoom in on the map to find your exact district.  It's really a very nice tool.  If you know your legislator's name or your district, I've included some links to in.gov directories at the bottom of this page.

Note: Not all Senators email addresses are listed  or enabled on their homepages, so you may have to print out your correspondance and mail it to him/her, with an added admonishment for making communication difficult, I'd think!).

Remember, it's a magnitude more of consideration when your message is mailed in hard format. Please consider doing both.

Receiving a physical letter usually compels them to answer you, especially if you request a reply, which you should.  So, if you have the a little extra time, paper and a stamp, it's well worth the investment.

If you email or phone a legislator, following up with a letter that refers to your previous correspondance sends a very strong message that you are serious about what you speak and they can expect to hear more from you.

The email addressing system they use is pretty apparent after you've emailed several. The address is built with a 's' or  'h' for senate or house, then the district number.  For example, Senator Hershman, distict 7,  is This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it   I've included an example  for your copy and paste  and cc or direct click convenience.   Page down.

Lists of legislators from in.gov:

House Democrats
House Republicans
Senate Democrats
Senate Republicans
Standing Committees
Legislation by Legislator
Legislators Listings
Statements of Economic Interest - House of Representatives
How to Contact your Legislator
Who's Your Legislator

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Aids for Correspondance

Below are a number of excellent references in recommended reading order.

Remember to keep written correspondance to under 1500 characters for effectiveness.

Communicating with Elected Officials - Congress.org
Letters to Leaders at Congress.org - Actual letters processed at congress.org. Wide variety.
Hints for communicating with congress - Congress Merge
How to Write Letters to Elected Officials - About.com
Letters to Congress - About.com
Writing Letters to Elected Officals - Community Toolbox - Kansas University
Community toolbox - *****   excellent.
Enhance Your Political Voice - 2020vision.org
Tips on writing your elected officials - ACLU

Google: writing letters to politicians

From: http://politicalactivistsonline.homestead.com/

Political Activism - The American Tradition
Ways to make your views known:
1. Call members of congress.
2. Write letters to congress and letters to the editor in your local newspapers.
3. Online activism, in chat rooms and forums. Start your own web site.E-mail articles to friends. Use of the web has made a major impact on politics and has greatly helped the conservative cause.
4. Help conservative groups and campaigns.
5. Call radio talk shows.

Conservative's debating tactics:
1.  Pace yourself, be patient but consistent and firm. 
2.  Never state facts without sources. Use credible sources.
3.  Never exaggerate or misrepresent facts.
4.  Never resort to the sleazy tactics used by the opposition.
5.  Never start or enter a debate without knowledge of the issue.
6.  Never retreat when you know you are right. Finish with a firm statement and display confidence.
8.  Never allow the opposition to draw you off subject.
9.  Never under estimate the power of a lie or propaganda; don't let it go unanswered. Don't assume people won't believe it.
10.Never act, talk or conduct yourself in a manner that  diminishes or brings disrespect to the conservative cause.

Activism fundamentals

Activism fundamentals

Effective method of moving politicians:
Write letters, insist on a reply.
Share and track replys. 
Write follow-ups.

• Find like minded individuals to aid in the campaign, make sure they stay informed.
• Study the issue, become knowlegable and persuade associates, friends and family.
• Prepare questions in advance, and seek out opportunitie to question politicians on the issue whenever possible.
• Follow the money.
• Boycott financial supporters of mal-illed politicians.

Real Politics-Rothfeld

Politicians suborn humanity for ambition.

They are ruled by ambition which reduces their behavior to the mechanical.

They are predictable and understandable

Are manipulatable

Politicians have a Pavlovian Response. Two forms of stimuli.

Pain and Pleasure.

PLEASURE
#1: money.
#2 Good press, praise, public endorsements.
#3 Getting others to attack their opponents for them.

Can't handle real time actions, or losing. Best way of pressuring them is with these two items.

Easiest way to get votes, is to buy them, hence entitlements. Of all sorts.

PAIN

#1 ANGRY VOTERS
No money.

Bad Press

Public humiliation (getting common, less effective of late)

Loss of party support.

Getting challenged in primary as an incumbent

Greatest force in politics - Inertia. Easiest, safest thing for a politician to do, is nothing. To move, need to mobilize and confront, apply force vectors to move the status quo box.

Morton Blackwell, Founder of the Leadership Institute. "Political Success is determined by the effectiveness and number of the activists on either side."

Politicians responses to Mobilization and Confrontation:

Ignore

Respond

Responses: Threaten, many direct and indirect ways..... powerful people with the ‘law' on their side. May approach you to 'Explain' the facts' or reply with: "If I don't follow the crowd something worse will happen".  May try to buy you off with prestige, privilege or entitlement.  Can be very good at sucking you in and then pigeon holeing you.  (hence sugar is better -jt)

Articles on the same subject on the web by Mr. Rothfeld (same material as above):

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2078859/posts

http://www.nationalgunrights.org/realnatureofpolitics.shtml

More Links

Activism.net - LOTS of resources - left, green - globalist.

Activism 101. - dead link..

Wiki entry on activism

Activism entry at Answers.com

Activists handbook at protest.net

Activism.net excellent list of articles, guides and material for the activist,

Electronic Frontier Foundation - Activism another excellent site with LOADS of information.  Personal liberties and freedom idealogy.

Political activist online - very nice site.

How to be a Political Activist - Andrew Paterson  8/2003

GWU - Political Management Master's Program Courses - Syllabus and required reading.

Saul Alinsky - Wikipedia - Know thy enemy.
Alinksy's Rules of Power,  Use their tactics against them
More Quotes from Alinsky's Rules for Radicals