Now write your federal representatives and tell them (not ask) to publicly support this effort. If they don’t, then write them again calling them a worthless POS coward. If they do, write them again and profess your sincere gratitude.

"...aspire to live quietly, and to mind your own affairs, and to work with your hands, as we instructed you, so that you may walk properly before outsiders and be dependent on no one." - Paul to the church in Thessalonica.