Website makes letters to politicians easy

I can attest, from my 30 years in the newspaper business and in public affairs, that politicians pay attention to voters. One way they know they are hearing from an actual voter is because the constituent bothers to write a letter or make a call. If the guy will take the trouble to do that, he's likely to vote. So the electeds who want to stay that way will listen.

For the politically passionate who throw their shoes at the TV but never bother whip out a letter to City Hall or Washington (and truly have an effect), a Scottsdale-based web site offers tools to make it easier.

At PurpleLetter.org, you bang out your diatribe to your elected official or company whose staff has either delighted or under-served you, click on the recipient and your letter will be winging it's snail mail way to the school board president or company president or . . . The President. The letter also is posted online so you know it's been sent and so you can link to it. It's very cool.

At the behest of the founder, I wrote a piece on how to put together a simple, easy-to-produce and effective letter to a politician. It's below and also on the PurpleLetter.org site.

So tell them what you think, and if you don't like how they listen to you (or fail to do so), throw the bums out.

Democracy rocks.

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