Postcards: Send a card. Host a party!
Advocacy postcards are a visible reminder to legislators that PA voters want redistricting reform.
A flood of postcards on a single issue can capture a legislators’ attention. The more the better, and the more personal the better. You can order cards (for free) from Fair Districts PA or use old local postcards or photos that show places and people you care about.
Add your personal message on the back, then mail or hand deliver them to your legislators’ district office.
Instructions:
1. Order cards (for free) from Fair Districts PA
2. Write to your legislators’ and legislative leaders’ district offices. On the back, include:
- A salutation with the proper title (Representative or Senator)
- A request that they cosponsor House Bill 31 or Senate Bill 131 (if they haven’t) or that they help get the bill a vote (for legislators who have already cosponsored and for legislative leaders).
- A very short statement of why this matters to YOU.
- Your name and address (or just city and zip code). Legislators want to know you’re constituents of their district or state.
3. Send or hand deliver to your local legislator’s district office. Click the “legislator look up” button to find your legislators, their address, and co-sponsor info.
4. Send postcards to legislative leaders asking them to give the bill a vote (mailing addresses below).
To multiply your effort: host a postcard party!
- Invite family, friends, and neighbors to your home, a local coffee shop, a picnic in a park, or another gathering place.
- Start with a conversation about gerrymandering, redistricting reform, and why this matters to YOU and your community.
- Share postcards and sample language (download instructions and sample language here).
- Encourage folks to mail from their own post offices, or plan to hand-deliver the postcards to your legislator’s district office.
Have a petition ready and encourage folks to sign it.
Download the petition and petition language Use the petition QR code OR encourage folks to text SignFDPA to 942-53
One more step:
Take some photos and share them. Take photos of completed cards, or of folks working on cards, and share them on social media along with a link to this page to encourage others to do the same. Send photos and a brief update about your party to communications@fairdistrictspa.com
Legislative Leaders’ mailing addresses:
- Senate State Government Committee Chair, Senator Cris Dush, 73 S. White Street Suite 5, Brookville, PA 15825
- Senate Majority Leader, Senator Joe Pittman, 618 Philadelphia Street, Indiana, PA 15701
- Senate President Pro Tempore, Senator Kim Ward, 075 S Main St., Suite 116, Westmoreland Crossroads Plaza, Greensburg, PA 15601
- House State Government Committee Chair, Representative Carol Hill Evans, 53 East North Street, Suite 3, York, PA 17401-2475
- House Majority Leader, Representative Matt Bradford, 240 W. Germantown Pike First Floor, Norristown, PA 19401-1332
- House Speaker, Speaker Joanna McClinton, 149 South 60th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19139