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Question: Choose four political issues that you care about: one local, one state and two federal. (They should be issues of public interest--not, for example, a request to forgive your parking tickets.) For each issue, write a letter of at least one single-spaced page in length to an elected official urging a change in government policy.
One letter should be addressed to an elected local government official, one to your state assembly representative, one to your representative in the U.S. House of Representatives, and one to the president of the United States. Part of your grade on each letter will depend on whether you have written to an official who has jurisdiction over the issue you are writing to him/her about.
Make sure you are writing to officials who are your own representatives, as opposed to officials who represent people living elsewhere. You can identify your state assembly and congressional representatives on the Project Vote Smart website (see Online Research Resources, above).
Each letter should explain:
o The nature of the issue you are concerned about.
o Why this issue is important to you personally.
o What specific change in policy you want.
o What you'd like the recipient of your letter to do to help change the policy. (For example, introduce legislation, co-sponsor a bill, issue an executive order, etc.).
Each letter must include your name and the city where you live; it must also include the name, elected office, and mailing address of the elected official to whom you're writing. You can find the addresses for your federal and state representatives on the Project Vote Smart website (see Online Research Resources, above). You can find the addresses for your local government representatives on the website of the government body in which they are elected to serve (e.g. San Mateo County, City of Belmont, San Francisco Unified School District, etc.).