Congressional Recess

Your national lawmaker will soon be headed home to spend a well-earned month off after spending at least one grueling month in D.C. drinking free lobbysit whiskey and wondering whether or not their personal phone number would show up in the D.C. Madam's little black book. This may be your only chance to tell them how you feel about things that matter back home. After getting an earful on immigration reform over the Memorial Day recess, several soft-spined electeds changed their positions when it became clear their back-home funding was threatened. They're ready to cave in again if the proper pressure is once again applied to their wallets. If they're in your neighborhood, give them an earful...but not a dime. They'll eventually get the message. And maybe they'll start to figure out why congressional approval ratings are lower than those of the president.