My last comment got deleted, so I'll try to make this more proactive.
What ideas do people have to make this effort more effective than the last one? True, we are all writing and calling our representatives, but so are the opposing forces (think "follow the money").
I don't know how much influence the alphabet organizations have in the current political environment...what *exactly* are EAA and AOPA doing to help shepherd this through? Hopefully, it's more than they've been doing with the NPRM, because that got stuck and is going nowhere fast, but I've not seen any info that tells me they're being effective.
So let's try to use our resources effectively, including the membership here, because (and if we're talking honestly about this, we have to admit) this is no doubt very far down on the list of any legislation that is likely to be considered, let alone passed, in the current environment.
We know that emails count for very little, automated ones even less...phone calls are somewhat more effective, personally-written letters more so. What about personal visits to local offices of congresspersons? What about a *group* of people requesting a meeting with a Senator or Congressman when they're back in town (which seems to be often, since they take so many vacations
)?
If we don't change our approach, this effort is, I fear, destined to the same fate as the previous one (and the current NPRM)...dead in the water.