Jordy Yager reports in The HIll:
The House is limiting e-mails from the public to prevent its websites from crashing due to the enormous amount of mail being submitted on the financial bailout bill.
As a result, some constituents may get a ‘try back at a later time’ response if they use the House website to e-mail their lawmakers about the bill defeated in the House on Monday in a 205-228 vote.
A question I hope people are asking: why did they underinvest so badly in machine capacity? And while we’re on the subject, am I the only person who notices that voice mail boxes get filled up by 8 p.m. in the evening?
It’s almost like they don’t want to hear from us or something …
Fortunately, a lot of politicians have Facebook pages. For example, here’s a thread I set up on Nancy Pelosi’s discussion board a couple of days ago. Facebook is pretty scalable; I bet they could easily handle a few thousand messages per politician per day. Maybe more.
List-in-progress of politicians’ Facebook pages here. If you know other links (on Facebook or MySpace), please add them!
jon | 02-Oct-08 at 7:46 am | Permalink
Deb Price’s Politicians’ phones ringing off hook on bailout quotes Raymond Miller of Mackinac Island, who spent a couple of days trying to get through to the White House or Congress before an aide to Deborah Stabenow finally picked up: “I would think that the White House and the Congress would like to hear from people about their concerns.”
I’d like to think that too, but I’m not particularly convinced …
Price adds: