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So I wrote a supportive postcard to Charles Schumer, D-NY, who is the Senate Minority Leader I think? anyway. My senator, at any rate, and while Googling to find out his Twitter handle I discovered that he is surely getting a whole shitload of nasty hate directed at him by some singularly uninformed people.
I plan to write a similarly supportive one to the junior senator for my state, who is also an alum of my high school. (She stood out recently as one of the only Democrats to vote against a particular thing; she seems extremely committed to civilian oversight of the military, among other things.)
I want to send more pointed postcards, as well– on Schumer’s, I bullet-pointed a couple of things, just to emphasize what I was supporting him on. I have some more specific things for Gillibrand as well, though I haven’t fully composed her card.
A colleague suggested I write to the former executive of my county, though, who is now a Republican rep in the House of Representatives, for a new district near mine.
I’m going to write to my own rep as well– in fact I already have– but he’s a Democrat and so also is already approximately doing what I want.
However, by Googling the rep my colleague mentioned, I discovered that that rep (Chris Collins) has a mixed legislative record and, while reprehensible, is a blue-state Republican and so has some reasonable stances on a few issues. I plan to write to him about those issues. He serves on a committee I care about, and I plan to start with that.
I also discovered that the chairperson of that committee is another Republican rep from New York, and this other rep is one of the Rs who expressly stated that he would not vote for Trump. He has voted against the ACA but has expressly defended Planned Parenthood and has even spoken out against anti-abortion legislation that fails to leave allowances for the health of the mother. He also has been expressly supportive of LGBT causes.
So I’m writing to him too, even though his district is nowhere near mine. (I drive through it twice monthly though!)
I feel like the moderate Republicans are the places to direct attention, you know?
There must be a list out there somewhere, of the potential swing voters. Surely someone more talented and organized than I am has devoted attention and time to this. Where should I start, looking for such a thing? I just don’t know what to Google, or what I’m really looking for. I’m following links around Wikipedia and trying to write down names and issues but I’m not doing well at keeping it organized and I don’t really know how to. Given that I’m singularly the-opposite-of-gifted at this sort of thing, pretty much any other human on the planet would be doing this better, is my point, but I don’t know how to find it.
So I wrote a supportive postcard to Charles Schumer, D-NY, who is the Senate Minority Leader I think? anyway. My senator, at any rate, and while Googling to find out his Twitter handle I discovered that he is surely getting a whole shitload of nasty hate directed at him by some singularly uninformed people.
I plan to write a similarly supportive one to the junior senator for my state, who is also an alum of my high school. (She stood out recently as one of the only Democrats to vote against a particular thing; she seems extremely committed to civilian oversight of the military, among other things.)
I want to send more pointed postcards, as well– on Schumer’s, I bullet-pointed a couple of things, just to emphasize what I was supporting him on. I have some more specific things for Gillibrand as well, though I haven’t fully composed her card.
A colleague suggested I write to the former executive of my county, though, who is now a Republican rep in the House of Representatives, for a new district near mine.
I’m going to write to my own rep as well– in fact I already have– but he’s a Democrat and so also is already approximately doing what I want.
However, by Googling the rep my colleague mentioned, I discovered that that rep (Chris Collins) has a mixed legislative record and, while reprehensible, is a blue-state Republican and so has some reasonable stances on a few issues. I plan to write to him about those issues. He serves on a committee I care about, and I plan to start with that.
I also discovered that the chairperson of that committee is another Republican rep from New York, and this other rep is one of the Rs who expressly stated that he would not vote for Trump. He has voted against the ACA but has expressly defended Planned Parenthood and has even spoken out against anti-abortion legislation that fails to leave allowances for the health of the mother. He also has been expressly supportive of LGBT causes.
So I’m writing to him too, even though his district is nowhere near mine. (I drive through it twice monthly though!)
I feel like the moderate Republicans are the places to direct attention, you know?
There must be a list out there somewhere, of the potential swing voters. Surely someone more talented and organized than I am has devoted attention and time to this. Where should I start, looking for such a thing? I just don’t know what to Google, or what I’m really looking for. I’m following links around Wikipedia and trying to write down names and issues but I’m not doing well at keeping it organized and I don’t really know how to. Given that I’m singularly the-opposite-of-gifted at this sort of thing, pretty much any other human on the planet would be doing this better, is my point, but I don’t know how to find it.
