Legislative Hotline

I did it! I'm not sure why I was nervous or hesitant to call the Washington Legislative Hotline, but I was. So today I called (using my cell phone, in my car, before work hours). The lady who answered was very polite. She asked for my address (and phone number/email) so the legislators could contact me. She asked for my comment, which I read from the WSCLIT bookmark "I would like funding for school library programs to be included in the supplemental budget." She said the message would be sent to my district legislators and asked if I'd like to send it to the governor too, "of course," I said.

The process was so easy, I'm sure I will do this again as the library program issue gets into the muck of the legislature and for other issues I care about. One co-worker told me how they used the hotline's email feature to send the message to their legislator, I might try that sometime too.