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- Newsgroups: dc.general
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- From: jim@visix.com (Jim Edwards-Hewitt)
- Subject: Re: Dulles Toll Road
- Message-ID: <1992Aug23.205720.17808@visix.com>
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- Reply-To: jim@visix.com
- Organization: Visix Software Inc., Reston, VA
- References: <1992Aug17.215833.13048@openage.openage.com> <1992Aug21.185056.16363@ERA.COM>
- <23973@oasys.dt.navy.mil> <15095@umd5.umd.edu>
- Distribution: dc
- Date: Sun, 23 Aug 92 20:57:20 GMT
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- In dc.general, walrus@bessel.umd.edu (Grig Larson) writes:
- >>mulvihil@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Lawrence Mulvihill) writes:
- >>
- >>
- >> Stuff deleted
- >>
- >>Easier than a letter? How far we have fallen since the days
- >>of Patrick Henry, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison. Perhaps
- >>the schools are worse than I thought.
- >
- >Well, I gotta be honest. Do you know where those letters go? It is a small
- >circular file next to their desk called File 13. I have known a lot of
- >Senate Pages in my time, and it is pretty appalling about what the image is
- >supposed to be and what it really is. "Writing a letter to your congressman"
- >could also be phrased "pissing in the wind."
- >
-
- Well, I know Congressional staffers, and they, not pages, are the ones who
- actually handle the mail. They may not read a lot of it in detail, but
- they do take very seriously how much mail is for and against an issue.
- Each person who takes the trouble to write is presumed to be representative
- of many more who don't.
-
- But it sure is easier just to sit back and bitch than to actually try to
- make yourself heard.
-
-
- -- Jim
-