[cripplecreek]

I’ve done it several times myself... enough to know it is an exercise in futility.

More often than not yes but occasionally you can drag a good vote out of them. A few years back we got a no vote on Amnesty out of Debbie Stabenow. She cited the overwhelming volume of mail and calls she got in opposition. (It was also an election year)

[jurroppi1]

O.K. In an election year, within one, maybe two months max of the vote*; I could see it being effective in some cases. Amazing that it was effective in MI, since the politics tend to be just slightly to the right of MN.

Try getting that kind of groundswell in support against a socialist dem idea or law in MN just oh, I don’t know, perhaps a dozen times and get back to me. Even national talk show hosts have a difficult time generating any positive buzz here.

*I say within one or two months of the vote because of the distance between tax day (4-15) to the actual vote (6 months either direction of the vote in any year). This was intentional BTW.