Emailing politicians

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Hello, I want to post something I found pretty funny and interesting, I’m not here to start a political debate.</p> <p>July 17 2025, I am more bored than usual scrolling on my phone – but I see an ad about how public media, specifically public radio, was going to get defunded; so I did something I forgot I had ability to do- I emailed my local politicians to do something about it. It wasn’t a very political email, it was just saying about how public radio and public media is essential for small communities, like for school board stuff and natural disasters. I emailed Mike lawler, Kirsten Gillibrand and, and chuck Schumer. I truly had no expectation after sending this, especially as email might be marked spam.</p> <p>July 31, 2025; I get reply from Kirsten gillibrand acknowledging she read my email and that she wants to help. I’m ecstatic, a politician actually heard my voice.</p> <p>I kind of forgot I did this until…</p> <p>April 23, 2026 (a few days ago form date of this post)… months after funding has already been cut… Chuck Schumer replies- he says he shares my concerns but bill passed end of July 2025 to cut funding, where his words: “Democrats fought against these cuts tooth and nail, but Republicans disregarded the definite damage and passed the measure” . A little late for the reply, and clearly my email didn’t change any minds, but I am happy I got a reply.</p> <p>I have yet to get reply from mike lawler. I want to emphasize gillibrand and Schumer are in congress, representing the entire state (Schumer has lot more power besides NY; while Lawler only has to cover the 17th district, which makes up not even 4% of the states population.</p> </div><!-- SC_ON --> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/UB_bum"> /u/UB_bum </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Westchester/comments/1svhh8c/emailing_politicians/">[link]</a></span> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Westchester/comments/1svhh8c/emaili