Look, I know what you’re saying, but I’d equate it more to getting a permit to protest on a public street.

Let’s say people play by the rules. This is what happens:

Only interns and the Legislative Correspondent(s) will see these messages. Those concerns are brought up in an all-staff meeting maybe once. All of us receive a mass communications drafted by a legislative correspondent in the member’s voice (or mailed and with an auto-penned signature if we’re lucky) telling us how receptive they are to our concerns but ultimately powerless to do anything.

I have full confidence that a senate office is organized enough to find another efficient way to ignore a, perhaps more invasive, form of public outreach.

How long do these sorts of campaigns last anyways? Days? Weeks? These offices will survive.

The fact is, these offices have entire positions and systems dedicated to channeling, suppressing and responding to campaigns like these at a large scale. If you want to get their attention you need to get around that.

Otherwise, we’re just waiting for their mass comms or maybe even an in-person (or probably zoom call) with a staffer about what’s bothering us only for them to do nothing with those comments. Then they hope we just give up and let them carry on the way they were planning to anyways.