#ExpandTheHouse and #UnpackTheCourt ! #Politics

@adam You never get personal responses and rarely even get auto-responses even vaguely on topic, and that’s true from any of them. You just don’t. If you call you’ll get a tired staffer who may and may not manage not to sound tired and they’ll count the call but that’s it.

It’s still better than petition bullshit because individual contact pings count more than petitions which are basically ignored. In theory calls rate higher because they’re more effort than email, and “custom”/one-off is better than form letters.

State-level on the other hand, you’ll get individual responses. Far fewer constituents per person, so it’s handleable. (This is also why we need to expand the House, a lot.)
#politics #seattle #expandTheHouse

@RadicalRuss Imagine the rural residents of, say, #Oregon, happy to see #Portland gone, no longer affecting their politics. #Texas free from #Dallas, #Houston, #SanAntonio, and #Austin.

Or #Atlanta, #Charlotte, Austin, #Raleigh, and #Birmingham urbanites freed from their red states.

A 100-star flag, a 50/50 urban/rural Senate, a more urban House (likely only 50-70 rural House seats, unless we #ExpandTheHouse). Start each new state with fresh, modern constitutions.

@wesdym I am all in favor of moves to #ExpandTheHouse. Personally, I like the #WyomingRule where the least populated state sets the ratio of voter to representative, and each state gets multiplications of that based on their population. According to the 2020 Census we’d have 573 House members. #politics #USpol