She sent her senator a pizza

[struggle4progress]

By Amy B Wang
February 6

... For weeks, Silge had tried dialing the Salt Lake City office of Sen. Orrin G. Hatch (R-Utah), but no one ever answered the phone. She had gotten through once, in January, and left a message, but it was never returned. After that, Hatch's voice-mail box seemed to be perpetually full.

Having exhausted her options, Silge tried the next best route she could think of: She pulled up GrubHub, a food delivery service app, and ordered a 12-inch ham-and-pineapple pizza for delivery to Hatch's office.

Under “Special Instructions,” Silge requested the following note be attached to the pizza box: “From a Salt Lake constituent in 84105: Please vote NO on Betsy DeVos. She is an inappropriate choice to lead our public schools” ...

Several hours later, Silge said she received a call from security at the Salt Lake City federal office building ...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/02/06/she-had-something-to-say-about-betsy-devos-so-she-sent-her-senator-a-pizza-with-a-message/

[lame54]

1. I too would find a pineapple pizza threatening

[onethatcares]

3. with a lot of hot sauce

and peppers, hot damn peppers.

Let their taste buds get going and then give em the "too bad charlie"

[GusBob]

2. I was wondering: Do people still send telegrams?

That would be one way to get a message thru

[onethatcares]

5. I think Western Union

only sells money orders. But hey, I'm gonna check it out. Ever heard the singing telegram joke?

[Solly Mack]

4. Poor little delicate man. Scared of a Pizza and a polite request.

[Foo Fighter]

6. OK, so pizza didn't work. How about flowers?

If pizza, and probably food in general, is out, maybe some flowers with a lovely note attached would get through.