I recently attended Russ Fulcher’s virtual town hall event on 8/16/25. It was the usual format, a short introduction on all the good things he is doing, followed by questions from the audience (pre-filtered) on issues. After a while, I decided to ask a question on a constitutional issue, but the one-hour meeting conveniently ended before I could ask it.
If a congressman really wanted to connect with his constituents and make himself vulnerable to standing on an issue and accepting dialogue on that issue, he could simply create a blog for himself with articles on issues that constituents could comment on, and he could respond to. But this is NEVER done because the main job of every representative, with few exceptions, is to get re-elected.
How it is right now, you can pull up the contact form for your congressman and fill out all your particulars (again and again and again), which will usually result in a response in about a week that sometimes actually addresses your issue. Naturally, the response is a read-only email you cannot reply to, so no true dialog can ever happen. I have tried to get a dialog going by resubmitting another contact form and quote from my original question and his answer with my response added, but this has never resulted in a satisfactory response.
The efforts of having local offices for the representative seem like it is reaching out, but it feels more like playing interference for the busy representative.
There is a fundamental problem here. According to https://www.census.gov/mycd, both our Idaho congressional districts have close to 1 million people in each of them. James Madison seemed to think that 30,000 people per district was a good number and proposed this as an initial size in an amendment to the Constitution.
Seems to me we are due for a multi-level form of representation.
GREAT job, Sandy. Very good letter, and valid points all!
I personally supported Russ Fulcher’s initial campaign and voted for him that first time. In all the several years since then, I’ve kept up more or less regular contact with him thru email and phone messages, as also phone and email communication with his aides in the Lewiston and Meridian offices, most often related in some way to his persistent pro-Zionist/pro-AIPAC/ADL tendencies, at times attracting varying degrees of resistance and rebuff from his aides – – with almost nothing at all ever forthcoming from Fulcher himself. (I could go on at length about particulars, but will spare you!)
As for his “townhall” telephone conferences, I’ve always wanted to participate in these, with hopes of a chance to question or even call him out over this pivotal, zionist issue. However, as you yourself have just now corroborated, there’s little or no chance of a truly open mic format, and thus no chance at all of my ever getting to address the congressman. I’ve therefore simply opted not to bother even listening to these (re-election designed) events.
What you and I say with respect to Fulcher and his district 2 cohort Simpson, is even more true with our 2, all but unreachable, federal senators.
All of this tends to confirm and reaffirm my strong interest in, and commitment to, the kinds of revisionist studies provided by governmental researchers like “Rebel Madman” Michael Gaddy thru his radio broadcasts and Substack blogs.
I view it all as nothing short of historically tragic that the American colonies – – and the additional 37 nation states added since – – were not left free for the past two-and-a-half centuries to carry on under the sovereignty-minded, loosely confederated governmental system that was The Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union. Needless to say, the sad consequences of that forced abortion and changeover continue to be LEGION!
Nonetheless, God lives, Sandy, and I’m proud of you.
So cheers anyway, and thanks again!
Carol
Glad to have a confirmation on my perceptions.
Fulcher isn’t the worst rep we could have but the way they rig it, you never really get much true representation except by gross polling numbers.
If it threatens their re-election, they move pretty fast.
Let’s hope this gets published.
I wanted to go on longer but a 350 word limit is tight.