Does calling your congressmen still work? Just ask Rep. Eric Massa

By: Mark Tapscott
Editorial Page Editor
07/09/09 2:40 PM EDT

Rep. Eric Massa, D-NY, planned to vote for the Obama-Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade anti-global warming energy bill, but then the phone calls started coming into his Capitol office and to his offices back home in New York's 29th congressional district. And coming. And coming. And coming.

The calls were 19-1 against Obama-Waxman-Market, according to Massa. Chris Bowers, one of the Left's most intelligent new media observers, thinks conservatives usually win telephone calling contests, but he concedes in this guest post at Think Progress's Wonk Room about Massa's experience that 19-1 is quite a margin.

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AKee

Jul 10, 2009

Cap and trade will not work! but will make a lot of members in congress rich, Love to see their financial portfolio! The cost to the taxpers will be big! After all one runs for congress to get rich and not service to the American taxpayer ...

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Does calling your congressmen still work? Just ask Rep. Eric Massa

By: Mark Tapscott
Editorial Page Editor
07/09/09 2:40 PM EDT