How To Effectively Communicate With Your Elected Leadership

Just a few tips on how to communicate with our elected officials (state of Federal) that I picked up on from US Chamber of Commerce experience.

Don't email your representative. Emails are worthless. If you do email, do NOT send an attachment... the virus programs will automatically assume it is a virus and kick it out.

Snail mail is ok. Phone calls aren't much better.

If you want to get noticed, FAX your letter to your representative. The FAX is the most powerful communication tool with your representative, short of a photo op during election season. When traveling, politicians often carry fax communications to read from their citizenry. You are much more likely to score points using a fax.

If your address and contact information are not included with the letter, it will be discarded. No politician cares about anonymous opinions when someone contacts their office.