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Response from Senator
(lemmy.ml)
"Thank you for your thoughts on this matter, I didn't read them. Here is a boilerplate statement espousing all the great things about this bill that you specifically criticized in your message to me. Please don't reach out again."
Also depends on state vs federal government. It's a lot easier to start making a change in your local government.
You’d think so. I used to.
I didn't say it was easy, but it's definitely not as hard as the federal government. For example, there are several offices in my county that have only one candidate (and occasionally none!).
I watched my dad get elected to local office with all kinds of ideas about how to improve things. In the end he managed to make sure the ugly apartment buildings a developer built weren't as ugly as they had planned, but even that took a bunch of meetings and a huge amount of time.
So getting elected to local office is absolutely easier than getting elected to state and federal, but making change in a local government is still fighting a huge amount of inertia.