Call me bloody furious: Why can't I email Paul Ryan?

[Mike 03]

This intelligent but disingenuous bastard is now the head of the Congressional Budget Committee, but when I try to email this SOB, I am told that unless my zip code is in his representative area, I cannot contact him.

This is bullshit. Ryan is issuing budgets, commenting on everything the Treasury does, and we should have the right to contact him, regardless of whether we reside within his district or not.

And this goes for every Congressperson who sits on a committee. When you sit on a committee, you are answerable to ALL THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, not just your F'ing district.

[jtown1123]

1. Did you try contactin g the committee itself and not his office?

[myrna minx]

2. 53545 is the zip code for Janesville.

Best of luck.

[butterfly77]

3. Maybe...

anonoymous can help.:rofl:

[xchrom]

14. ...

:eyes:

humor:
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/humor

hu·mor
   /ˈhyumər or, often, ˈyu-/ Show Spelled Show IPA
–noun
1.
a comic, absurd, or incongruous quality causing amusement: the humor of a situation.
2.
the faculty of perceiving what is amusing or comical: He is completely without humor.
3.
an instance of being or attempting to be comical or amusing; something humorous: The humor in his joke eluded the audience.
4.
the faculty of expressing the amusing or comical: The author's humor came across better in the book than in the movie.
5.
comical writing or talk in general; comical books, skits, plays, etc.
6.
humors, peculiar features; oddities; quirks: humors of life.
7.
mental disposition or temperament.
8.
a temporary mood or frame of mind: The boss is in a bad humor today.
9.
a capricious or freakish inclination; whim or caprice; odd trait.
10.
(in medieval physiology) one of the four elemental fluids of the body, blood, phlegm, black bile, and yellow bile, regarded as determining, by their relative proportions, a person's physical and mental constitution.
11.
any animal or plant fluid, whether natural or morbid, as the blood or lymph.


http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/humorless

now this makes more sense

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/humorless

now this fits your notion of 'funny'

hu·mor·less
adj \ˈhyü-mər-ləs\
Definition of HUMORLESS
1
: lacking a sense of humor
2
: lacking humorous characteristics
— hu·mor·less·ly \-lē\ adverb
— hu·mor·less·ness noun

maybe you could anonymous to help with you your jokes?
not really.

[butterfly77]

15. ...

I guess its all in the way you look at it :rofl:

[xchrom]

17. i guess it is --

:rofl:

[LanternWaste]

19. I thought it was funny...

I thought it was funny... :P

Tough crowd when the audience is full of (insert noun of choice here)

[Zoeisright]

4. Look up their district and use one of those zip codes.

It's very easy to get by that restriction.

[rhett o rick]

12. On his web site will be addresses for his offices in his district with zip codes.

I have done this often.

[villager]

5. then look up a zip code in his district, and use that -- and hey, post it here!

n/t

[myrna minx]

6. 53545

:hi:

[villager]

7. A Confederacy of Thanks, Myrna!

;-)

[myrna minx]

8. Oh Fortuna turned her back on me - I went to HS with Ryan.

:hi:

[jtown1123]

9. My heart aches for you

[femrap]

10. A lot of those assholes do

that. I just google zipcodes and get one from his area.

[Freddie Stubbs]

11. You could just mail him a letter, but

most Congressional offices will simply forward the correspondence to the Congressman who represents the constituent.

[MineralMan]

13. Here's a question: Why do you think any congress member who

restricts email that way would read your email anyhow? Why waste your time? Ryan doesn't want to know what you think, so what's the point in telling him?

I'm sorry, but I communicate with my own reps and senators. They respond. Why? Because I'm a voter in their district and a minor functionary in the party organization. I don't bother trying to communicate with people who wouldn't read my communication anyhow. Time's precious.

[cbdo2007]

16. I emailed my own Repube Senator last week asking him some stuff...

about the Health Care thing and of course they sent me a form letter in return, not answering my questions, so that tells you they don't even read 99% of the stuff they get in.

Even if I email Claire McCaskill, our Dem senator and ask her good questions she wont' respond to anything, just sends me form emails NOT answering anything.

Not sure what I can do to hold them accountable for these emails. I'm just one "complainer" in their eyes.

[ladywnch]

18. I've sent emails to rethugs in states I'm not from. just search for a zip code

on the USPS and slap it in. I've done this with MANY of them, I've got 'aliases' in over a dozen states. The funny thing is now I'm on THEIR mailing lists so I get their horseshit propoganda mailings

[TexasProgresive]

20. I can't email my rep using my home zip code.

You can not get it through the congressional web master's head that zip codes don't equate congressional districts. 9 digit codes should work but the site does not differentiate between 7 and 9.

Personally I think all congress critters should be emailable by anyone in the country through the committees they sit on. Committee members are in a position of representing everyone not just their district.

[unblock]

21. any bets as to whether or not he restricts campaign contributions to his own district?

:rofl: