2008 ELECTION CONTACTS and more

HOW TO CONTACT:

MAINE CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATION

MAINE LEGISLATORS

MAINE – LOCAL OFFICIALS

MAINE – MEDIA

USE THIS PAGE FOR:

LETTERS OR CALLS TO THE EDITOR
FINDING THE MAINE LEGISLATORS FOR YOUR ZIP CODE

TRACKING KEY CONGRESSIONAL VOTES – PAST AND FUTURE

LISTS OF CANDIDATES
TOP MEDIA STAFF PERSONS

ABOVE IS AVAILABLE FOR EVERY STATE IN U.S.

YOUR PERSONAL POLITICAL CONTACT TABLE

     There is no more effective way to make your voice heard and have an influence on your town, state and nation than to personally contact the elected officials at the appropriate level. In the case of Congress often you can do this most effectively by a personal telephone call to one of the congressional delegation Maine offices. They receive thousands of e-mails daily but not many personal office calls.

     If you call one of the Maine offices they keep a log of who called and a summary of what they said. This “grassroots voice” can be effective since they know that it is personal and not a mass organization flooding their e-mail.

 

CONGRESS.ORG TO MAKE CONTACT

You can save this article on your computer for reference. Also you can go to:

http://www.congress.org/congressorg/dbq/officials/

Where you will find elected officials, including the president, members of Congress, governors, state legislators, local officials, and more in an easy to search format for the entire United States.

The above site (at the left of the home page) also allows you to enter your zip, click “State” or “Federal” and it will bring up a list of all of your specific elected officials (President and Congress) or (Governor, Maine Senator, Maine Representative). It allows you to either e-mail or send them a “printed” letter all at once. (Note: the hand delivered, printed letter costs $8.95).

 

FREE TRACKING OF KEY VOTES

 

You can also sign up at this site to track your Senator’s and Representative's votes by e-mail. 

Each week (that Congress is in session) you will receive:

• Key votes by your two Senators and U.S. Representative.

• Links to send e-mail to your members of Congress using pre-addressed forms. 

• Upcoming votes for your review and a chance to offer e-mail input before they vote. 

Use this weekly vote monitor to track the decisions made by your elected officials on key issues.

You can also use the resources of this site to find all kinds of information related to the state elections, listings of candidates, links to the Maine State web site, and much more.

LETTERS TO CONGRESS

Amazingly enough when a person uses the site to write the President or a member of the Congressional Delegation they are asked permission to make the contents only of their letter public. You can use the site to search/read almost 2,000 letters to Senator Collins alone on a variety of subjects. The town or residence of the sender is given but not the person’s name or address. For instance Senator Collins got the following letter on NAFTA.

        April 22, 2008

 NAFTA has been a disaster for everyone except corporate CEO's. First our jobs migrated across the Mexican border--not our pay or benefits, just our jobs. The pay and benefits were funneled into the CEO's pockets; underpaid Mexican peons worked in "maquiladora" factories right out of the darkest days of the Industrial Revolution. Meanwhile, much of Mexico's agriculture-based economy has gone down the tubes--and Mexicans pour over the border, looking for work on almost any terms. All NAFTA has done is to turn much of North America into a "Jungle" of cheap-labor exploitation. NAFTA should be repealed.

        Portland, ME

To read the letters (and possibly pick up some facts or ideas for your own letters) you just click on “Your Letters to Leaders” in a box on the left hand side of the home page.

FOR YOU OWN LETTERS: You can copy/paste material from any source (Internet quotes, material sent to you, e-mails, your own word processor etc. into the message box to officials or media.

MAINE MEDIA

Finally, you can use the site to send an e-mail to any media in any state, including Maine. Just click on “Media Guide” on the left hand side of the page and you will get hot links to newspapers, radio and television with staff names. You can write the business and/or direct your letter to a specific staff person such as the editorial page editor.