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We’re growing and growing and growing…

Mar 30

Posted by FreedomSpeaks in FreedomSpeaks, Politics

I just wanted to thank everyone for continuing to visit FREEDOMSPEAKS.COM and contributing great letters and comments. There have been some really great letters written by some of our memebers since my last email went out (see below), and I’ve added some great new features. Everyone on the site has been giving some great feedback – in fact, most of the new features come from member suggestions! Keep up the good work, and I look forward to reading your next letter!

Here are some of the new features we’ve added:

  • Sending letters to other officials, even if they don’t represent you, just got easier!
    (just go to your account home, click "Send Letter", do a search for the officals you want and add them to your list)
  • Letters can now be written as private – no one on the site will ever see it.
  • Not happy with your screen name? You can now change it!
  • State Official data is slowly trickling in. Members in CA now have their executive and legislative officials in their profile (if we’re able to correctly geocode your address). We’re working on the other states, so stay tuned!
  • Improved Search now includes ALL State officials as well as Federal.
  • You can now subscribe to a letter and get email alerts whenever anyone comments on it.
    (simply comment on a letter and be sure to check the "Subscribe" checkbox)
  • Get a list of the most recent letters (not just most active letters)
  • Check out our list of RSS Feeds – You can now stay on top of your favorite issue / topic!

Check out some of these great letters…

  1. Medical Marijuana: in defense of a voter approved measure.
  2. Reduce the Gas Tax and Provide Relief to All Americans!
  3. Its Time to Balance the Budget!
  4. Reinstate Proposition 36 – "Treatment Rather Than Incarceration"
  5. Same-Sex Marriages – Protect the Rights of Homosexuals
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Citizens Now Have a Voice with FREEDOMSPEAKS.COM !

Mar 4

Posted by FreedomSpeaks in Current Affairs, FreedomSpeaks, Politics

To whom it may concern:

It
is my pleasure to inform you that a new tool is available to the
citizens of the United States. Unfortunately for you, however, this
means you will now be held to a much greater level of accountability.
FREEDOMSPEAKS.COM is proud to offer is a new online service free of
charge to all US citizens. Using this service, our members now can:

  1. Quickly find out exactly which public officials represents them at both the Federal and State level of government.
  2. Get contact information (addresses, telephones, faxes, emails, websites) for every one of those officials.
  3. Most importantly, contact those officials simply and effectively.

We now live in an information age, and it’s about time our
government caught up. The mere fact that many public officials do not
even have a publicly available email address is appalling and
disgraceful. Information is power, and it’s my mission to shift that
power back to the hard working citizens of this country. We may not all
agree on all the issues, but that is what democracy is all about.
Dictionary.com defines "democracy" as the following:

"government by the people; a form of government in which the
supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by them or
by their elected agents under a free electoral system."

You, as an elected official work for your constituents – all of them
(yes, even the ones that do not fund your campaign). We’re not really
happy with the way things are being run, so we’re going to take our
country back!

Sincerely,

   

Jason
Founder
FREEDOMSPEAKS.COM
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