Contact Your Elected Officials

Constituents communicate with elected officials to influence their actions or votes or policy decisions.

The most common ways to communicate with your elected state and federal representatives is by calling their office and by emailing them. When you call, you’ll get a staffer and leave a message for your representative. When you email, it will usually be read by a staffer and summarized/counted for the representative. You can request a response via a callback or email. Dropping in or making an appointment at the representative’s office, or attending her scheduled town hall, are other (and often more direct) opportunities to communicate.

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The best way to get in touch with local elected officials (e.g. city councilors, county commissioners, and special district board members) is by email, either individually, or more commonly, as a group. Even though some are elected by residents of specific districts or zones (like our County Commissioners and School Board members), they usually have less of a sense of representing a specific district, so emailing to all members of the group is most common.

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