I often wonder if the "easy"/quick ways to send people a message are diluted by the essence of their relative ease to do them. I'm now on Dick Durbin's mailing list. I signed a petition online earlier this summer to try to keep BP and the Indiana EPA from increasing their pollution into Lake Michigan. They did back down thank goodness do to overwhelming public outcry, from democrats and republicans alike. That's why I'm so greatful for the newspapers that uncover these kinds of stories.
So anyway today I got an email from "Friends of Dick Durbin". Its so easy to do, and they even make it easy to forward a letter to your friends for them to do it too! So I'm just wondering about the effectiveness of this, or is it just an easy way to build an email database to ask for campaign contributions. Who knows. Probably both. But its so easy, its hard NOT to do it.
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