Fannie Mae Preferred S (FNMAS)

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aliases...i know what you were saying:

joe...yeah, i get it, you have let people know who you are.

that's cool

what i was trying to say was that if you want to influence washington, you cannot do so without real names and addresses. they will not respond to online petitions or forwarded emails etc., etc. I worked in DC in 1999 for a Senator. Every card, letter or email with a name and address from the home state was entered into a data base, tracked by name, content, issue area of concern. some got form letters back, the more interesting and thoughtful submissions actually got personal letters back drafted by aides that were specifically assigned to that issue area (tax, defence, transportation, healthcare, banking, what-have-you).

anything anonymous, apparently forged, or did not match with a known database of residents was disregarded.

anonymous lobbying won't work. that's what I was trying to say. if you want to get a group of organized shareholders to really get something done, you need real names because real names mean votes. and votes keep the scumbags in office.