Local representatives are notoriously deaf, dumb and blind to the will and interests of their constituents. How, precisely, are appeals to the better nature of pigs at the trough expected to have any effect?
When you call with a strident tone, and follow up with a pointed, firm, but polite letter with the other .01% of fellow-voters that do so, then the representatives will hear and act on it.
Make sure your other friends of like mind also do so, and the impact will be felt, even when (as in Delaware) the legislators are way over the left-hand boundaries in their state and federal narratives that are inflicted on their constituents.
In this case, one also ought to complain to the leadership of his own party, and see that they get off their duff and stop promoting RINOs in the election strategy.
Repectfully, Louis . . .