Email Legislator
Email Your Legislator Pages let your supporters email a pre-drafted, customizable message to their local legislator.
At the moment, we have a very limited set of legislatures included (CA and IL state legislatures), but we can accommodate requests from current clients to add support for new legislatures. Please reach out to our support team with your requests, and we can typically add support for state and large city legislatures within 1 week.
Email and zip code are required form elements for Email Legislator Pages.
Choose legislature
Choose the legislator that you want to target. You supporters will have to provide a zip code within the bounds of the selected legislature in order to have their message sent to the legislator. Otherwise, the supporter will be informed that there weren't any available targets within their provided zip code.
Contact our support team in order to request new US legislatures be added. Because
Delivery method.
Next you can select the delivery method:
- None: Emails won't be sent to the legislators.
- Individual: Emails will be sent to each legislator individually.
Email messages delivered individually, will attach the supporter's email address in the "Reply To" field, so any email replies will be sent to them.
If you are preparing a mass mobilization where you anticipate each legislator will receive hundreds of emails, please reach out to our support team. It may be best to work out a batch delivery method, if you want to avoid inundating legislators (if that doesn't matter, then proceed with individual delivery).
Alternative messages
You start by composing a default message that will be sent to all legislators. This is the main message - which will typically be encouraging legislators to support specific action or piece of legislation.
You can add additional messages if you want to target particular legislators with alternative messages (e.g. thank some legislators for supporting a policy, while encouraging holdovers with a separate message). Click the "Add alternative message" button at the bottom of the page, and you can add as many message variations as you wish, and select all legislators that you want to have receiving that alternative message.
Alternative messages are optional, but you may want to consider whether all legislators within the targeted legislature ought to be receiving the same default message.
Updated about 1 year ago