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Rep. Dan Maffei (D-NY) 25th Congressional District Map
Rep. Dan Maffei (D-NY), who represents New York’s 25th district (which includes eastern Monroe county), will be holding an open Town Hall meeting this Thursday at 6:00pm.
If you are interested in appealing to Congressman Maffei to work on the issue of broadband usage caps, and to ask him to support Congressman Massa’s efforts, please consider attending, especially if you reside in his district.
The meeting will take place at the Irondequoit Town Hall, 1280 Titus Avenue.
You can also contact Rep. Maffei’s local office to speak on this issue, even if you cannot attend. Calling is the most effective way to draw attention to an issue of concern. Writing/faxing a letter is second. E-Mailing is better than nothing, but most congressional offices are swamped with e-mail, and it can be less effective in measuring what hot button issues are most important in a district. Take a few minutes and call.
Irondequoit Office
1280 Titus Avenue
Rochester, NY 14617
Phone: 585-336-7291
Fax: 585-336-7274
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Do we know what his poistion is on this issue?
Rep. Maffei is a very good advocate for consumers and working men and women. I think it will be a safe bet he will be an advocate for our position on this issue.
I sent the following email;
Dear Congressman, I understand you are holding a Town Hall Meeting in Irondequoit NY tomorrow concerning Time Warner Cable’s attempt to cap rates on bandwidth. I would like to know your position on this issue and am hoping that you do not side with monopolistic companies like Time Warner. My district is represented by Eric Massa who has vowed to take a leadership role in stopping their plan. Please understand that the message Time Warner is sending “this will only impact a small percentage of users” is inacurrate and untrue. My area hosts a large Deaf Community that will be greatly impacted by this cap and not just gamers, movie watchers etc. Our troops serving over sea’s often use Web Cams to correspond with their loved ones back home. This use of bandwith will cause many of those families to suffer from the dollar per gig charge and rack up huge bills. I have an online petition going and intend to keep this issue alive until our Congress takes the Net Neutrality Act OFF the back burner and inacts it! Thank you.
Great to hear. One recommendation I would give you is to leave out any admission you are outside of his district. They may figure that out on their own, but some congressional staffers essentially ignore communications from those who are not their constituents. That may not be the case with Congressman Maffei’s office, but it’s better to be safe.
He seems like a real nice guy, I will be attending the meeting, even though I am not from his district so I wont be asking questions until his actual constituency gets to speak but I feel the need to at least go.
OFF TOPIC:
He was just on the Colbert Report the other night I would post the link but I don’t wont to derail this conversation.
I have gone on and taken another step. I emailed 13WHAM.com and provided them with some of information about Eric Massa and Dan Maffei’s plans as well as the petitions that are taking place online, public rallies etc. I have asked them to keep this issue in the news and research the real number of people in our community that are outraged over TWC’s plan.
I took a moment to explain to them that this is far more reaching then TWC is reporting. The over use is being blamed on gamers, movie watchers and people downloading music etc. I asked them to balance the reporting by including just how badly this will effect our Deaf Community (home of NTID) and the Families in our area with Soldier’s serving over sea’s. This goes beyond gaming and people need to be educated on the impact this move will have on us all.
Good going Diane. I had emailed Rachel Barnhart at 13WHAM News yesterday and asked her to look into the issue as well since she wrote a piece on her blog about “cutting the cord”.
We need to take this wherever it needs to go to make sure that we benefit from the internet not only today but also with the newer and faster internet coming as a society and not just greedy monopolies.
It would be a pity indeed if the country that developed the internet in the 20th century failed to utilize it properly in the 21st century. Other countries are already far ahead of us in speed and access, and if we don’t pull up our pants, the internet will not be an effective tool for us but will be for the emerging economies, and we will surely pay a heavy price for that on so many levels.
We just posted your article on riseuprochester.org
Well done, you’re doing some great work here.
http://riseuprochester.org/2009/04/08/internet-action-alert-rep-dan-maffei-town-hall-meeting/
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