So, I want to launch a new writing campaign, and need as many volunteers to send the White House a strong message from student loan debtors.
If you are interested in joining us in this writing campaign, please email me at ccrynjohannsen@gmail.com.
I am currently in Tennessee and have limited access to my computer today (traveling to Nashville), but will be drafting a letter after Obama's State of the Union Address.
Thanks so much again for all of your efforts. We are being heard and by the White House . . . that's real progress, friends.
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Cryn...if you're traveling near Memphis, why not storm this guy's office: Rep. Steve Cohen, The Clifford Davis/Odell Horton Federal Building, 167 North Main Street, Suite 369, Memphis, TN 38103, Phone: (901) 544-4131. You attended his hearing, which he held amid much fanfare and a promise to immediately introduce legislation that would restore bankruptcy rights to private student loan borrowers. Then nothing. Not a word. His office won't return calls, and unless you are a Tennessee constituent, they don't give callers the time of day. Perhaps the letter writing campaign should be directed at him. The usual advocates (TICAS, PIRG, etc.) don't have a clue what's up either. Alan Collinge posted somewhere recently about how weak these advocacy groups are, and when you look at the mountain of anti-student borrower legislation that has become law on their watch, it's astounding that full time, salaried advocates have done such a poor job. You, however, as a volunteer, not earning a dime from the borrowers you so eloquently represent, seem to have the capacity to motivate people to take a look at these issues. I can't even imagine what miracles you could produce with a steady paycheck on the order of Deanne Loonin or Lauren Asher's salary.
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