My state's infrastructure report card came out last month, and like the rest of the country, infrastructure funding continues to be a major issue. We know infrastructure is important. We know funding it properly is important. Yet, when was the last time you emailed or otherwise talked to your elected representatives to tell them so?
If you're at all like me and figured it was just too much effort to type up a well-researched email on infrastructure policy, or perhaps are so totally disgusted with the current state of politics in the USA that you figure the effort is futile, I'd like to introduce you to ASCE's key contact program. Signing up for the program will take you less than 1 minute, and participating in it is equally fast. If you live/vote in the USA and have time to read a social media post, you have time to make a difference with this program!
All you need to do is sign up
HERE, and when there is legislation pending relating to infrastructure at the federal or state level, you receive an email from ASCE that it's time to take action. You click on the email, it automatically finds your local representative for you, and there is already a well-written and researched email included. Click send and you're done.
It takes 30 seconds or less to tell your legislators that infrastructure is important! Comment below if you've signed up to be a key contact. And remember, if we don't tell legislators infrastructure is important, who will?
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Stephanie Slocum P.E., M.ASCE
Founder
Engineers Rising LLC
www.engineersrising.com------------------------------