marcidale

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   Welcome Back, Congress Here Are 15 Issues Awaiting Your Return(huffingtonpost.com)

   1 points by marcidale 12y ago|0 comments
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   Startups aim for a more democratic lobbying system(washingtonpost.com)

   20 points by marcidale 14y ago|0 comments
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   Top 50 Bills of the 112th Congress on POPVOX(popvox.com)

   1 points by marcidale 14y ago|0 comments
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   by marcidale 14y ago

   You can get more information and weigh in with a message to Congress on these bills at: HR 6530: Global Free Internet Act of 2012 https://www.popvox.com/bills/us/112/hr6530 HR 6529: ECPA 2.0 https://www.popvox.com/bills/us/112/hr6529
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   by marcidale 14y ago

   That's why we deliver messages via POPVOX electronically.
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   by marcidale 14y ago

   See above. Heritage is using a POPVOX iFrame widget. They have no control over the messages. It all feeds into the POPVOX system and we deliver the messages to Congress. If you would like to weigh in on any bill in Congress (or pick up a wi
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   by marcidale 14y ago

   Hi all - I'm a former Congressional staffer and a co-founder of POPVOX. We built POPVOX precisely because of the ineffectiveness of so many other methods. Heritage Action is using a POPVOX widget -- any site can do the same. https://www.po
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   by marcidale 15y ago

   At POPVOX, our first investor was Tim O'Reilly. Legislative advocacy is a huge market -- and one in great need of disruption.
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   by marcidale 15y ago

   Here are links to take action on the bills you list. Your message will be sent to the appropriate legislators and aggregated on the public bill report so that you can see how sentiment is shaping up across the country. (The "sentiment acros
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    by marcidale 15y ago

    Thanks, David - yes, we would love the input at POPVOX (info@popvox.com) New alerts system is imminent, so please check it out. BTW - we had our own go at crowdfunding for POPVOX. I explained on Quora how we had to turn down non-qualified i
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    by marcidale 15y ago

    Thanks for the post, Dev (and for alerting the POPVOX team.) Also, thanks for the links to POPVOX, Tobu. As Tobu mentioned, POPVOX is a starting place for some of what you describe. The simple origin was the team's experience with the legis
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    by marcidale 15y ago

    You can always add a POPVOX widget to the site, so people can send a message to Congress directly from HN. http://popvoxnation.tumblr.com/post/15753030372/protesting-s...
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    by marcidale 15y ago

    "tocomment" - what do you mean? there's no paywall.
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    What Americans Told Congress in 2011 (Top 50 Bills)(popvox.com)

    4 points by marcidale 15y ago|0 comments