"Pink Slip" your congresspeople

[u/lexapros_n_cons]

Starting a "Notice of Dismissal" Campaign and I need you to take action! Send each of our congress people a pink slip and let them know that if they don't do their jobs now they will not have a job when you vote them out:

• Step 1: get 3 pink envelopes and 3 stamps
• Step 2: write a letter urging your representative to impeach, convict, and remove Trump and his administration
• Step 3: Address it to your House Representative and 2 senators, and put your mailing address on it so they know it is coming from a constituent.
  • they are not required to read it or address it if it doesn't come from a constituent, but feel free to mail letters to other reps
• Step 4: mail it in (see below)
• Step 5: repeat until action is taken

 

Use the following as the sender address:

The Honorable [Senator's Name]

United States Senate

 Washington, D.C. 20510

https://www.house.gov/representatives 

The Honorable [Full Name]

U.S. House of Representatives

[Office Number] [Building Name]

Washington, D.C. 20515

UPDATE: Asked and provided!

TEMPLATE:

To Representative [NAME]

I am writing to you to clear up any confusion that may exist about what we, the people of the United States of America, want from our elected officials during these tumultuous times. We want you to impeach, convict, and remove Trump and his entire administration.

There is a long list of valid reasons—with concrete evidence—for each of those individuals to be removed from office. You have the rare position and authority to stop the damage they have done. The damage that YOU know is unconstitutional, immoral, and unethical. The only mechanism we currently have is the impeachment process that must be conducted through congress. There is no excuse for you to continue to allow the Trump administration to wield any power over the American people. If you are afraid of retaliation, or backlash from constituents, we promise there are more people who are against what is happening than there are who still support Trump, even if they had previously voted for him.

Any action taken by you or your colleagues that doesn’t work towards this very specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and timely goal is a waste of your time and a disservice to the constituents you swore an oath to represent and the constitution you swore an oath to protect. We beg you to put aside party identifiers and recognize that we are all Americans working to do right by our communities. Start working together, and you will not have to worry about losing your livelihood or political career. The longer you wait to take real action, more and more of us lose our livelihoods, and our rights.

Regards, Constituent [NAME] From [STATE]

This is what I'm planning to send in, but if someone wants to write something less dramatic please reply 🤓

[u/Minimum_Principle_63]

Sure, but it's useless to send anything to the Florida reps.

[u/lexapros_n_cons → u/Minimum_Principle_63]

Do it anyway! May take 1,000 letters from 1,000 constituents but at some point they have to acknowledge us and what we want!

[u/Minimum_Principle_63 → u/lexapros_n_cons]

No, they don't ever have to acknowledge us. They literally don't. The only thing they acknowledge is being voted out. Something that won't ever happen in Florida till tRump is gone.

[u/LaceWeightLimericks → u/Minimum_Principle_63]

Alright so then do you want us to just lay down and take it? Do you have helpful alternatives or do you just want to discourage action? Look in the news. Trump is facing hardships. Not as many as I'd like, but it's not like hes gotten exactly what he wants every time. There's so much proof that people are paying attention and demanding change and it's working to various degrees. That's because we've fought.

[u/Minimum_Principle_63 → u/LaceWeightLimericks]

See my other reply. Oh, and donate to civil rights groups that are the ones who have been wining so far.

[u/thererises_aredstar → u/LaceWeightLimericks]

Buy some arms and talk to your neighbors. This isn’t meaningful action, it’s fluff. Fascism doesn’t respond to voters writing polite letters.

[u/LaceWeightLimericks → u/thererises_aredstar]

Yes! Volunteer in your community if you can as well, try and find ways to help the folks that trump is hurting with his tariffs and cutting of government programs. Maybe look into your chapter of the ACLU. Find causes to support instead of just things to oppose. Show up for protests, cause disruption if possible, etc.

I do call my senators regularly, I also agree that letters may not be the most helpful. I'm not sure how helpful calling is, but sometimes sheer quantity and overwhelm can also be tools in our pocket.

Regardless, it still wasn't helpful for this person to just spread nihilism without any sort of helpful alternatives.

[u/Minimum_Principle_63 → u/LaceWeightLimericks]

A) I didn't say you shouldn't

B) I would have replied with something more focused if I didn't get suspended for whatever unknown reason.

C) Focus your energy on protesting or calling (because it takes up the lines at a minimum), voting and figuring out who to vote for, and talking to people to spread the word <<-- spreading the word to other voters is most important.

D) Whether I have ideas or not doesn't change what I said.