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- From: danr@ais.org (Daniel Romanchik)
- Subject: Re: Email sent to Congress - then stopped (Was Re: Internet Access...)
- Message-ID: <C1Go4B.n11@ais.org>
- Organization: UMCC
- References: <1jslhnINNncl@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu> <1k2cb4INNhgf@srvr1.engin.umich.edu>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 12:31:20 GMT
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- In article <1k2cb4INNhgf@srvr1.engin.umich.edu> ronda@ais.org (Ronda Hauben) writes:
- >ronda@ais.org responding:
- >
- >I do agree that we should have email access to Congress,
- >but I don't agree that Congress is denying us this access
- >because of some computer illiteracy on their part.
- >
- >Rather, they are constituent illiterate - i.e. they have
- >no respect for the experiences and wishes of their
- >constituents - they have taken their offices as license
- >for privilege and for serving those who pay them well in
- >exchange.
- >
-
- No amount of e-mail access is going to change that. The only way
- you're going to get their attention is by working for their political
- defeat in the next election.
-
- Dan
-