Know your politicians. Have their phone numbers on your cell phone, email addresses in your Contacts list, and addresses in your “rolodex,” albeit probably online now.
Here’s my list for my state, Colorado, and my districts. Use this website from the League of Women Voters to get you started. http://hq-salsa.wiredforchange.com/o/5950/getLocal.jsp?zip=81236&zip4=
For information on being a citizen activist see: www.good.is/articles/how-to-talk-to-your-congress-representative
FEDERAL-COLORADOSen. Michael Bennet (D)>RSOB- Russell Senate Office Building, Room 261 >1127 Sherman Street Phone: 303-455-7600. Toll Free: 866-455-9866 (Denver office) Phone:(202) 224-5852 (Washington DC office) Email: senator@bennet.senate.gov |
Website: https://www.bennet.senate.gov/
Sen. Cory Gardner (R)>RSOB- Russell Senate Office Building, Room 354 > 1125 17th Street, Suite 525 Phone:(202) 224-5941 (Washington DC office) Email: only using form on his website: www.gardner.senate.gov/contact-cory/email-cory |
Website: https://www.gardner.senate.gov/
Note: Both US Senators have additional offices around the state. See their websites for more information.]
Rep. Doug Lamborn (R) – 5th Congressional District (FH-CO05)>RHOB- Rayburn House Office Building, Room 2402 >1125 Kelly Johnson Boulevard >415 Main Street Buena Vista, CO 81211 (by appointment only) Phone: 719-520-0055 (Buena Vista office) Phone: (719) 520-0055 (Colorado Springs office) Phone: (202) 225-4422 (Washington DC office) |
Email: only using form on his website www.lamborn.house.gov/contact/
Website: www.lamborn.house.gov
STATE-COLORADO-District 5
Sen. Kerry Donovan (D) (Senate District 5)
200 East Colfax
Denver, CO 80203
Phone:(303) 866-2316; 303-866-4871
Email: kerry.donovan.senate@state.co.us
Website: http://donovanforsd5.com
Rep. Jim Wilson (R) (House District 60)
Phone:(303) 866-2747
Email: james.wilson.house@state.co.us
Stay tuned for more action ideas, but also blogs about other parts of the world that I will be visiting or have visited. One of my favorite quotes from reviews of my book, Voice of a Voyage: Rediscovering the World During a Ten-year Circumnavigation, included this last line, “. . . best of all it makes one think.” You can read the entire review and others on Amazon or Goodreads for Voice of a Voyage. My blogs are entertaining, but also, hopefully, will make you think.