Button to "Email your legislator"

[durs125]

Turn the results of going through the budget party into an email to the governor and legislator. Type in your zip code to auto populate the address with your legislator's email instead of sending the email to yourself.

[mateoclarke]

• Council member and budget staff person would be the target for email.
• Would need to be more precise down to address to get Council Districts. But a solid council lookup tool is something that could have common usage.

Labeling this as a feature enhancement.

[twentysixmoons]

This came from @stepwinder in our slack and I think is relevant to this thread

What if one of the outputs was a constituent letter using the user's input? They could have the option to send electronically (facilitated by the app) or to print, sign and send. This would give you metrics like number of letters generated, confirmed sent by e-mail, and printed to send by constituent's own hand. It would also be a conduit to get at least a CM district identified in order to direct such things at the right person. Bonus points if it can offer info on how that CM prefers to get constituent input.

Would add a clear local-oriented feature that I don't think the other app offers. Also shows a qualitative difference in the user's commitment to the data being served up. Reviewing and sending the letter vs. randomly clicking through choices on these apps (speaking from experience on that last one).

Resulting in some fairly traditional constituent communication feels a little icky, admittedly, but if that's how CM's work? When you get there and all the bugs have been squashed, can generate different design assets appropriate to different outcomes so constituents can share those on social media. I believe thinking very deliberately about the quality of connection to elected reps and facilitating connections to other citizens are big wins for apps like this.

Now maybe Budget Party will get out of my head today.