First congressional Democrat calls on Menendez to resign
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Rep. Dean Phillips (D-Minn.) is calling on Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) to resign in the face of corruption charges, his office confirmed to The Hill. Phillips, a member of the bipartisan Problem Sol…
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Dean Phillips is a real one. He represented me while I lived in his area. I emailed him a couple of times to insist on the right to repair, find solutions to police brutality, protect Internet freedom, and various privacy votes.
Each time he personally called me. He himself. We'd have a conversation. And then when new votes came up around the same topics, he'd call me back to discuss. Once a year he'd call to get my opinion on how things were going in general and what I was concerned about. He also holds regular virtual town halls.
I should stress I'm nobody important, and he does this with anyone who engaged with his office.
If all reps were like him, our country would be much better off.
Amazing. I had to email my representative for a class, I sent him a letter backing a specific medical rights bill that was working through the legislature. The response from someone in his office. ‘We have noted your support for this bill, thank you’ .
Yeah most of them seem to have these vague responses that feel cooperate or just ... artificial. They use a lot of words to say, very little.
The one or two times my gf wrote a congressperson she got back a really long, generic letter that basically explained why they were voting the opposite way regardless, with phrases like “I understand your concern”.