BREAKING: Trump's business interests determined the banned-refugee countries.

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42. One other thing - the staffers frequently ask for zip codes where you're calling from.

I suspect if you're on a cell phone, they'll put 2 +2 together and figure out your area code is NOT from "friendly" turf. But that doesn't mean very much anymore, since people often keep their old numbers - WITH the old area codes - even after they move. I have a friend who has an L.A. area code on her cell number. But she moved to the Midwest years ago. She just didn't change her cell number to reflect that. I'd guess most of the staffers are aware of that.

BUT JUST IN CASE, you can make that point. You can say your personal locale is your mother's house, and use that zip code. After all, if your name is on there, don't you pay property taxes there? So YOU ARE INDEED vested in the local community. Sometimes I've taken to making a note of my friend's or relative's zip codes, so I can give them that when I call that state's reps to give them a piece of my mind.

SERIOUSLY! If
- you interact regularly with people in other states,
- you spend money there,
- you SEND money there,
- you order regularly from there,
- you own property there,
- you have business dealings there,
- you've donated to political campaigns there (so they damn well better listen to you if you underwrote their campaign to win that job)
- or some of your family members and/or friends live there (so whatcha gonna do when you visit? Lock yourself in their closet and not go out or spend money locally to shop, go to dinner, go see a local play or something, or otherwise support the local economy? You gonna go visit and do it from inside a hermetically-sealed locker in their house where you don't have any interaction with the outside world??? I'd guess, probably NOT!)

If you answer "yes" to any of those, above, THEN IT SEEMS TO ME YOU ABSOLUTELY DO have a right to call the reps there and register a complaint, or make your views known. What they do IS affecting you AND your business, property, local relatives. You have a personal interest to protect.