Here is how to contact your elected representatives

5 Calls is a one-stop-shop for making  your voice heard.  Their website is www.5Calls.org.   On this website, they explain why calling works, list potential topics, provide background information, and make it easy for you to express your opinions to your representatives and senators.  5Calls is a nonprofit for promoting the positions on public policy that you advocate.  They make the point that the most effective way to reach your representatives is by telephone.  Call their offices.  Flood them with calls.  Make five calls a day.  It doesn't take long to call, and your voice counts.  

Consider doing the following.  Think about the current issues that most concern you, alarm you, or believe your elected officials should advocate for.  If you are unsure about what to say, go to the 5Calls website and scan their list of topics.  They provide talking points.  Then make five calls a day to your legislators.  You aren't likely to reach the legislators themselves, but you will reach a staff member who will note your concerns and let the legislator know what people are most concerned about.  

You can email Michael Bennet on his website:  www.bennet.senate.gov.  On his homepage, click on "Write Me a Messsage."  You will be taken to a form where you can send Senator Bennet an email.  You can also telephone him at these numbers:

Denver:  (303) 455-7600

Pikes Peak:  (719) 328-1100

Grand Junction:  (970) 241-6631

Fort Collins:  (970) 224-2200

Durango:  (970) 259-1710

Pueblo:  (719) 542-7550

Alamosa:  (719) 587-0096

Washington, DC:  (202) 224-5852

You can email John Hickenlooper on his website:  www.hickenlooper.senate.gov.  His homepage has a box you can click to send him a message:  "Email John."

You can reach him by telephone at his Denver office:  (303) 244-1628. 

For those of us in the 3rd Congressional District of Colorado, you can email Jeff Hurd by going to his homepage:  www.hurd.house.gov.  

You can call him at these locations:

Washington, DC:  (202) 225-4676

Pueblo:  (719) 696-6968

Grand Junction:  (970) 208-0455

Durango:  (970) 317-6167

You can also find Jeff Hurd on Facebook at Rep. Jeff Hurd.  Important note:  If you respond to his posts, his staff CANNOT delete the post and must compile it with all other responses.  This is true only of his posts, not what others may post.  Further, your comment must relate to the content of his post.  You can follow Jeff Hurd on Facebook and thus be a voice whenever he posts anything.

It is easy to find the homepages of all elected officials in the government.  Simply google their names to find their homepages.  Those homepages should show you how to contact them via email, and they should show a list of office locations with telephone numbers.

One key person to contact is Speaker of the House Mike Johnson.  You will be one of tens of thousands of people contacting his office, but that's okay.  Make your voice heard.  You can reach him at (202) 225-2777.

Another key federal government official is the Senate Majority Leader, John Thune.  You can reach his office at (202) 224-2321 or toll free at (866) 850-3855.

I can't promise that anything you send to the White House will be read by anyone but the lowest-level staffer.  Nevertheless, the address is The White House, 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, DC  20500.

One of the best ways to be heard is to attend town halls in your area.  These have been contentious enough in recent months that Republicans are now being advised not to hold town halls.  If they do, or if they hold them by phone, show up.  Make your voice heard.  They need to know how unhappy their constituents are and what you're unhappy about.  Government is not something that should happen to you; it is something you should actively participate in.  Otherwise, you need to accept whatever happens to you.