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Instead of encouraging folks write to their congressmen, let's write write to the constituents living in his district (Texas's 21st congressional district). Or better, let's crowd fund a campaign against him there. Congress needs a good example of what happens if the internet gets crossed.

I'm just an idea guy.



   When I first started getting involved with [grass roots 
   politics], I didn't understand the concept of no leaders. 
   I thought I did; but I didn't. And I'd go up to the 
   nearest alpha male or alpha female and say, "Here's what 
   you should do - Why don't you do this - It'd be great if 
   you all did this - And when are you going to do this?" 
   And they'd give you this look, that I never understood, 
   which was kind of ...

   I think, "Weird". And I'd go up to the next alpha, "When 
   are you going to do this - It'd be great if you did this 
   - Why haven't you done this yet - Why don't you do this 
   - It'd be wonderful if you did this?" And again, they'd 
   give me this look, like ...

   And after a year, the penny dropped, and I finally 
   realised what that look meant, because they won't tell 
   you, because that would be hierarchical, right? What this 
   look meant was, "Yes, good Idea, why don't you do it 
   yourself? You print the leaflets, I'll distribute them; 
   you call a meeting, I'll attend; you organise an action, 
   we'll come along".

   And from that moment, I realised that, my whole 
   philosophical outlook changed. And from then on, instead 
   of suggesting things other people could do, I stopped 
   suggesting things all-together, in-case they expected me 
   to do them..." - Robert Newman 
[http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5267640865741878159 and http://www.peakprosperity.com/forum/robert-newmans-history-o...]


I love Robert Newman's History of Oil! It is a brilliant stand-up mockumentary! "An American plan for democracy in the middle east..."


That is a great idea, please join up with others doing the same: http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/u8qtd/texas_reddit...

They have funded a billboard: http://fightforthefuture.org/billboard and a TV commercial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhBBZnSpDwY

He still won his primary but you can join to help defeat him in the general election.


I just want to point out that those were done by two different groups - the commercial was from TestPAC, a PAC started and run on Reddit. They also put up a billboard. Fight for the Future is separate. The thread you linked to on reddit was a post by Andy Posterick, Treasure of TestPAC

(Disclaimer: I helped do the TestPAC billboard and commercial as an officer in the PAC)




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