brad garland

I have never had the desire to write my congressman or representative because I knew what the end result would be. It has a greater than 50% chance of being thrown straight away and if by some miraculous occurrence it got opened, it would’ve been by a staffer that would skim over it real quick, and then they would proceed to wad it up and work on their twenty foot jumper towards the trashcan. What’s the point.

But today, I changed all that. I actually wrote my congressman and a state representative…but by using Twitter. I came across TweetCongress.org today and realized that I could have access (even direct access) to those making decisions for me. So I rattled off a 140-character tweet (which would more likely get a read than a long letter) and sent it to both John Cornyn and John Culberson of Texas. Here it is:



It’s only been twenty minutes since I posted it and no response yet but both have ‘followed’ me on twitter (could be an auto-follow script) but the fact that I can get direct access to these type of people instead of working channels makes me a bit more intrigued about potentially making a difference in our government and for our country. A bit naive perhaps but a tweet is better than nothing, right?

Side note: To date, there are currently more Republicans(41) than Democrats(24) on Twitter. And who said social media is only for the Liberals? :)