our government

I have thought for some time that our congressmen and senators really dont have a clue what goes on in the real world. I also thought that they didnt care either. Over the course of the last week I, unfortunatly have proven myself correct. I decided to conduct a little experiment, everyone says that to get a bill passed, or to stop a bill etc. To get in touch with you local state representative and make your opinion known, so I did. I have spent the last week. Looking up all of the local congressmen and senators and contacting them. I asked them a very simple question. Any time in the past 4 years have they sat down with any of their constituents and had a conversation about the economy, health care, unemployment, welfare, etc. I sent out a nice email. I used spell check so I didnt look like a drunk redneck, I tried to word it in the style of an open question. No accusations or personal affronts to whether or not I actually think they are qualified to have their particular public office. Just a very neutral nice e mail. You all know just how hard that was for me to do. Every one of their web sites had a contact button so it really wasnt very hard to do. I left my email address, and my contact information as requested. I am even a registered voter here in AZ so they could check up on me and see if I was allowed to have an opinion. I sent out basically the same email to 6 different state and national officials. Well guess what. NOT ONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Even send me a thank you for contacting us. Not a kiss my ass, your too stupid, anything. Just what does that say about the people we are electing.
If you run a business with a website and you put a contact button on it. I would assume that you do that so that you can get in touch with the interested party. Not this group of AZ elected officials. I have decided to take it one further. I am going to pic one of the local T.V. stations and send them the same e mail with my story and see if they would like to try the experiment also. I bet the average Tom, Dick or Harry gets no response, but if they send the e mail from their respective T.V. station. They will get one.
Until next time.