{"id":1023,"date":"2022-07-30T04:38:28","date_gmt":"2022-07-30T04:38:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=1023"},"modified":"2023-03-02T22:31:37","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T22:31:37","slug":"conservatives-its-time-to-get-off-your-butts-and-pick-up-your-pens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=1023","title":{"rendered":"Conservatives, It\u2019s Time To Get Off Your Butts And Pick-up Your Pens!"},"content":{"rendered":"

This post originally appeared at https:\/\/wiconservativedigest.com\/conservatives-its-time-to-get-off-your-butts-and-pick-up-your-pens\/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=conservatives-its-time-to-get-off-your-butts-and-pick-up-your-pens<\/a><\/p>\n

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Conservatives, it\u2019s time to get off your butts and start communicating your opinions to the people who hold political office.<\/p>\n

I write via e-mail very frequently to Federal and Wisconsin legislators, Senate Minority Leader McConnell, the person currently hiding in the oval office, and Wisconsin\u2019s mediocre Governor, offering my opinions on legislation I favor or am against and on other issues I believe are important to conservatives.<\/p>\n

My letters are also forwarded to conservative friends and colleagues, in order to make it easy for them to copy-and-paste so they can easily join in communicating their shared \u00a0opinions about these same concerns to their elected representatives.<\/p>\n

When asked if they read my letters, many of these friends and colleagues offer comments such as \u201cI love your letters<\/i>\u201d, \u201cyour opinions are right on the money<\/i>\u201d, and \u201cI\u00a0totally agree with what you wrote<\/i>\u201d.<\/p>\n

However, when I ask if they emailed the same or similar letter to legislators, too often I receive a tenuous response of \u201cI don\u2019t have time<\/i>\u201d, or more often \u201cwhat\u2019s the use, the politicians won\u2019t read them<\/i>\u201d and \u201cthere\u2019s no point, the politicians don\u2019t care what voters think<\/i>\u201d.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s simply not true.\u00a0 Politicians do pay attention to voter letters.<\/p>\n

How do I know?\u00a0 Because the opinions I\u2019ve communicated to Wisconsin legislators have generated responses including acknowledgment; questions asked of me; written explanations of their positions on an issue or legislation; phone calls to me by the legislator to talk about the issue; and even an invitation, which I accepted, to testify before a Wisconsin legislative committee on a bill.\u00a0 And letters I\u2019ve written to Federal legislators receive responses, admittedly from aides, offering the legislator\u2019s opinions about the bills my letters addressed.<\/p>\n

The issues that Conservatives view as important and talk about every day are under constant legislative attack by the left.\u00a0 Just peruse the list of bills introduced every day in Congress and Wisconsin\u2019s Legislature and you\u2019ll see a continuous stream of legislation from the left against the 2nd<\/sup>\u00a0Amendment, abortion restrictions, illegal immigration control, and voting integrity laws, as well as an endless litany of bills from the left favoring apologetic foreign policy, destruction of U.S. energy independence, defunding law enforcement, releasing criminals from prison, expunging drug convictions, and increasing excessive Federal spending and debt, and so much more.<\/p>\n

These legislative attacks by the left should not be ignored nor go unanswered, yet they too often are.<\/p>\n

Just talking about important Conservative issues is not enough.\u00a0 Conservatives, ALL CONSERVATIVES, need to voice their opinions (email, letter, phone call) to the Legislators who make the laws, not only to Conservative legislators but also to those on the left.<\/p>\n

Legislators need to hear from you so they know what\u2019s important to Conservatives.<\/p>\n

If a conservative Legislator is debating about how to vote on a bill that can go either way, emails received from Conservative constituents may be what influences their vote in favor of the Conservative position.<\/p>\n

If a RINO is twisting in the wind and considering voting with the left on a bill, letters from Conservatives may be what prevents them from voting against the wishes of their Conservative voters.<\/p>\n

If a Democrat with a tenuous hold on their office is thinking of rubber-stamping a liberal bill, phone calls from Conservatives may be what makes them think twice on how they will vote.<\/p>\n

But none of that will ever happen if those Legislators never receive emails, letters or phone calls from Conservative voters residing in their legislative districts, because of apathy among Conservatives, because Conservatives count on \u201csomebody taking care of it\u201d.<\/p>\n

Emails, letters and phone calls to Legislators offering Conservative\u2019s opinions on legislation can and do make a difference.\u00a0 All it takes is your investment of a few minutes and some keyboard strokes to write your opinion about a legislative bill which you feel strongly about and click send to your Legislators.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, apathy by Conservative voters is all it takes for a Legislator to vote in favor of liberal left legislation that sets back Conservative causes.<\/p>\n

So pick-up your figurative pens, Conservatives, and start letting your Legislators know what you think.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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