I subscribe to my congressman’s email newsletter. It’s the one thing in my email sure to make me steaming mad every time it arrives. I faithfully reply, asking for more action, some attempts at compromise, but he’s stopped replying. Maybe he blocked me. 😂😭
@adamprime Good thing they’re replaceable! I don’t know how this functions in USA, but is there any hope a new one will take over soon, or isn’t that until next “mid-term” / presidential election? (My ignorance shines bright here)…
@odd Little hope. He’s been reelected a number of times by a wide margin. But I will continue my small war of imploring email replies and the occasional phone call in the hope he does something for our district.
@adamprime The death of local papers are probably not helping any. (Holding them accountable). Here, in Norway, local papers aren’t as confrontational towards local politicians as they used to be. Much more ads and “happy news”, (not that I’m against that). They will rather make a big story about the opening of a school than pointing fingers to misconduct and such.
@odd That’s a really big problem here too, and a sad one. I miss learning about local government from reporters who were deeply involved and familiar with it. My local paper was sold and merged to cover a whole area, originally covered by four papers. The worse the coverage gets, the fewer subscribers, leading to more content cuts, meaning fewer subscribers, on and on.