Rules of the Road:
1. You must copy (cc) OpenMass in your email communication with your legislator or the Governor. Sorry, no paper submissions and no letters from State House staff.
2. As with all open letters you must identify yourself (name, address and tel# or email address) and leave contact information. (We reserve the right to verify you). Your email address will be used for verification purposed only and not given to any organizations businesses etc…
3. You must respectfully put forth your position. Please do send letters of praise as well!
4. One letter per issue or bill.
5. Your legislator will be allowed to respond in kind.
6. OpenMass reserves the right to withhold the publishing of any open letter that violates it policies.
What about letters to Commissioners or Committees or active Commissions?
Committee Chairs are fair game for people outside of their district but we don’t have profile pages for Commissioners or Commissions at this time.
perusal I’m most certain it will be censored. Confined to the mediocrity of “conventional” “approved” talking points.
I’m not sure what perusal you are referring to. I can tell you that letters will not be edited in any way. Either they pass the rules of the road or they do not. I have read the letter you submitted and it is clearly within the rules of the road and will be published on 12/1/07 with the rest of the open letters.
my cynical attitude. I am a veteran of bans from both left and right flavors of political thinking. I have a worldview so radically different Americans don’t even understand me. I find it far easier to illustrate my points only to people not born here. Most times I get banned for raising topics and sides of issues the establishment simply can’t tolerate.
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By even saying “rules of the road” I equate that with the increasing corpo-fascism of our current society immediately. Nov 7 of last year did nothing for us did it.
I am beginning to think we should actually help them in destroying America so perhaps our children might have the chance to get through this and start anew.
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I know you don’t understand, my contempt would occupy an entire book.