Does calling your representative actually do anything?

[Melon]

Does calling Rep. Hakeem Jeffries office cause him to change his position? Does writing letters do anything?

I really want to know from others experience. I gave this up years ago, leaving messages and speaking to “staff”, which I suspect are interns assigned the phone. Does it make any difference? Will a representative change his position from calls?

[niyad]

1. Apart from the personal satisfaction of telling them exactly what I

think of them, reminding them that we are their bosses, not too much.

[Easterncedar]

2. I have heard a rep say it mattered a lot

A surge of calls on some issues made her pay attention to them and weigh them more carefully.