At least, if you are a member of the public.
Like many Floridians, I have telephoned my U.S. Senators to express my opinion to my elected representative. (Since I am from Florida, my two U.S. Senators are Marco Rubio and Bill Nelson.) So I have some experience in the matter. Including on the day that I am writing this article.
For months, the telephone for Senator Rubio's office in Washington, D.C. seems to have been robotically screening his calls. Calls from outside his office, namely, from the general public, are automatically sent to a voicemail messaging system. You can no longer talk to a human being.
So, there must be a telephone tree, if you will, recognizing calls from inside the office and letting them through. Anyone know the secret sauce, the magic code to get through? If you do, leave a comment.
Parenthetically, Senator Bill Nelson's office used to pick up on telephone calls to their Washington, D.C. office. Now they no longer do, apparently taking a recent tip from Senator Rubio.
At least you can still occasionally get through to Senator Nelson's local office. Senator Rubio? Calls to his local office just ring, and ring, and ring, without anyone answering. Not even a machine. Cheap.
So who told you this is democracy?
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