Thread: IL: Dick Durbin on English as official language

So much for Majority rules!!

Originally Posted by vortex

I am happy when some politico (or staff) has the caring to elaborate on the position of what my argument has been. I have gotten too many canned answers about how valuable my opinion is and how they will consider it when debating or voting on legislation. Some staffer is probably sitting there full time posting canned answers to every letter that comes in, and I will guarantee that few legislators even get informed what has been written. I suspect they get a bare-bones account: 47 percent pro, 39 percent con, and the rest we can't figure out what they are trying to say.

These are just form letters. I urge everyone that writes to these people, if it gives you an option as to what your e-mail is about (immigration, healthcare, etc) select "other", not "immigration". Once you actually select a topic, you automatically get that form letter. If you select "other", than the person on the other end is forced to actually read the letter to decide which form letter to send. This way, at least it gets read.