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Congress, Serve Your Constituents: Leave D.C.

Tell Your Congressman To Get Back To Your Affairs: Leave D.C.

TAKE ACTION America! .

Tell Your Congressman:

Be Loyal To Your Constituents and -"Leave D.C."

Residents of D.C.!!!!

Tell America to order

their Congressmen to 'leave D.C.'

Congress won't listen to D.C.. Congress will listen to their constituents!

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Tell Member s of Congress to

Tell Arizona Representative Flake

abolish the D.C. subcommittees,
resign his seat on any D.C. subcommittees,
and support legislation to let D.C. free Congress to work for its constituents not local D.C. Read more...

Volunteer with us

Research - So many media outlets, community haunts and other places in the Members' home district, that we would love your help digging up the best outlets to tell America what their Congressmen are up to - telling D.C. how to run its schools and otherwise spend locally raised tax dollars.

Call - You have the gift of gab, energy to burn and you are fired up to call in to radio programs around the country, all to educate your fellow Americans about the activities of their Congressmen and the plight of the most disenfranchised members of this great republic.

Holler For An Hour - Have time to spare, to share, to go down to your church, your neighborhood school, your recreation center, the local swimming pool, the library, the local shelter, the college campus down the street? You are a D.C. resident and you want to organize a gathering where you discuss the importance of emailing the home districts of Members,

Tea Party- You live in a place where residents have voting representation in Congress and you want to invite all of your friends to join you, your computer and your pot of tea which you will dump in your kitchen sink in sympathy for residents of Washington, D.C. Your friends will then compose and send emails, send faxes and make calls to your Congressman to urge him to support the Leave D.C. campaign, at www.lobbyline.com/leavedc. Click here for guidance on the brands of tea guaranteed to bring all of your friends out to support this effort. Please email us your digital pictures from your Leave D.C. tea party and we will post them on our upcoming Leave D.C. photo gallery.

Innovate - Creativity is always in need. Write us and wow us with your brilliantly effective and offbeat methods of turning the tables, telling Congressional home districts what their Members are up to, and getting the Member's attention. We know your ideas are bursting at the seams waiting to be shared with us. Innovate and join us.

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INTRODUCTION: WHY THIS PROJECT?

Did you know that D.C. subcommittee has one of the highest turnover rates of all the appropriations subcommittees? Did you know that Congress, even members of the D.C. subcommittees, fail to disclose their unique relaitonship to the District of Columbia?

Here is the story of why these questions are coming from us at Lobbyline. I am an attorney, an education reform advocate interested in special education and a D.C. native, and I am sick and tired of being sick and tired of Kay Bailey Hutchison and her colleagues seeking to limit the attorney's fees awarded to lawyers representing children whom the city is failing by not meeting legally mandated deadlines for providing diagnostic and other services to children for whom disabilities are a barrier to learning. I wanted to do something about Senator Hutchison and company and their incessant interference in this arena of D.C. affairs. So, at Lobbyline, we geared up for an initiative to inspire an email campaign targetting certain members of Congress to tell them to stop their attempts to impose caps on attorney's fees.

But, we at Lobbyline, who specialize in email as a vehicle for connectging people to decisionmkers were disappointed then intrigued to find that many members of Congress will not accept email from D.C. residents. Some of them warn us that they won't respond, though they accept the email. So, we pressed ahead and thought what about starting an email campaign to get Congress to accept our email? That wouldn't work, because they would not read or receive the email protesting their failure to read or accept the email. We looked from another angle. Curious about what this meant, we went digging around the websites of variuos members of the D.C. subcommittee - current and former, and what did we discover. Not only do they nto want email from D.C. residents, who our analysis argues are their non-electiv constituents. Among the information they provide to constituents visiting their website, there is a big gaping hole.

These members of Congress are keeping a secret from their elective constituents. They barely mention their constitutional duty to legislate for D.C. on the website. Not even the members of the subcommittee. No wonder, as surveys suggest, fewer than half Americans know of the plight of D.C. residents - the disenfranchised stepchildren of this republic. This is our contribution to the heroic effort of other warriors

struggleing for D.C. autonomy..