As it says in the note to Elected Representatives at the beginning of each of the "contact threads" in this category: This facility has been set up to provide your constituents a convenient means of communicating with you, and an efficient means for you to communicate with your constituents. Your reply will be automatically inserted on a web page where all your constituents with Internet access can read it. You may wish to make brief reference to which message you are responding to, as the software employed will automatically insert any messages from you at the beginning of the messages on this page.

That is this category's purpose. It is a mechanism that provides you with an easy, convenient way to contact your elected representatives, and an easy, convenient way for them to not only reply to you, but everyone in the area using the Internet and this site.

To add your message to the web pages each of the threads in this category are, use the "Contribute and answer to..." link at the bottom of each page.

If you would prefer to send your representative a private email, simply click their email link just above it.

Important: While you may wish to start new discussion threads to express your views concerning things associated with elected representation (and assign them to the "Representative Contact" category), bear in mind that anything you add to any of the threads that begin with the word "Contact;" will be directly communicated to that elected representative.

-- cynthia (cabeal@efn.org), December 27, 1998