I just called McConnell's office and got a real live person

[stollen]

202/224-2541

CALL!!!

[MFM008]

1. well something live anyway...........

.................

[LisaM]

2. What did you (and the person) say?

I don't mind calling, but I'm too angry at the moment.

[stollen]

5. I said

my husband and I are overseas in support of DoD, and my husband is a veteran. I said my husband and I wanted a special prosecutor, and we wanted Sen. McConnell to personally lead that drive now. I said I'd just read on Votevets.org that Trump was meeting with Russians and was keeping out the US media while allowing Russian media. I said if that were true, why wasn't McConnell himself showing up to Trump's office with articles of impeachment? I reminded him of the number of military members and their families overseas in harms way. I said that if McConnell lost the vote of the military, he would not be reelected.

It was a woman who answered, and when I asked why McConnell wasn't already doing what Goldwater had done, bringing in the Articles of Impeachment, she paused. Maybe doesn't know who Goldwater was?

[LisaM]

7. Excellent!

I can only call as an American citizen; I don't have your bona fides. Good on ya!

[stollen]

8. An overseas German phone number on their call register helps.

and I'm telling friends here to do the same.

[haele]

10. Probably doesn't if she's working as an intern answering phones.

I was in my early teens when Watergate went down, and I'd admit I'd be a bit fuzzy if I didn't refresh my memory of that era. With the amount of partisan sweeping history under the rug that was going on during the Reagan years, I would be surprised if anyone under 35 would know very much about Nixon or the Watergate cover-up itself, much less Goldwater's part in the removal of a sitting President. And if that person was GOP-inclined, they'd know even less about history before Reagan, other than whatever movie or History Channel show they saw once about a person or event.

Haele

[WinkyDink]

3. I just got a "This mailbox is full" recording.

[stollen]

6. Right after my call....

interesting...

What I said to his personnel is posted in this link.

[Elwood P Dowd]

4. Too bad McConnell is not "a real live person"

Most turtles are nice, but sometimes they turn out evil and venomous.

[FSogol]

9. Someone has to clean the trutle tank.

Seriously, it is better to call your own congressmen and Senators. Being from their district is a plus.

Flood the phone lines, fill up the email servers...

https://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm?OrderBy=state&Sort=ASC
http://www.house.gov/representatives/find/

[Bayard]

11. No kidding?

I just called again, after trying to get thru for months, and got the same old recording about high call volume. He is my senator, unfortunately.

Here's a letter I finally received from him yesterday:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/1018949257