The following links will take you to your Representative home page, if you do
not know who your representative,
click here.
Bilirakis, Gus M., Florida, 9th
Boyd, Allen, Florida, 2nd
Brown, Corrine, Florida, 3rd
Brown-Waite, Virginia, Florida, 5th
Buchanan, Vern, Florida, 13th
Crenshaw, Ander, Florida, 4th
Castor, Kathy, Florida, 11th
Diaz-Balart, Lincoln, Florida, 21st
Diaz-Balart, Mario, Florida, 25th
Hastings, Alcee L., Florida, 23rd
Grayson, Alan, Florida, 8th
Klein, Ron , Florida, 22nd
Kosmas, Suzanne M., Florida, 24th
Mack, Connie, Florida, 14th
Meek, Kendrick, Florida, 17th
Mica, John, Florida, 7th
Miller, Jeff, Florida, 1st
Posey, Bill, Florida, 15th
Putnam, Adam, Florida, 12th
Rooney, Tom, Florida, 16th
Ros-Lehtinen, Ileana, Florida, 18th
Stearns, Cliff, Florida, 6th
Young, C.W. Bill, Florida, 10th |
The following are sample messages that you can use when contacting your representative:
Sample 1
Every hour of every day, at least one hate crime offense is committed somewhere in the United States. Of those attacked, it's estimated that at least 15% of hate crimes are related to a person's perceived or actual sexual orientation or gender identity. But the biggest crime here is that this very same legislation that would help protect the most vulnerable communities affected by hate crimes has been before Congress many times, yet we've never seen it become law.
I'm asking you to change all that by voting to pass comprehensive federal hate crimes legislation without delay. Too many people have died, too many injustices have gone unpunished to do otherwise.
Thank you for your time.
Sample 2
As your constituent I am writing to express my strong support for the Matthew Shepard Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Protection Act. I hope you'll do everything in your power to pass it.
This bill, which passed both houses of Congress in 2007 but did not become law, would protect lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people from bias-motivated hate violence.
While all violent crimes are heinous, hate crimes are uniquely destructive, casting a pall of terror over an entire community. They don't just target a single victim. They are designed to "send a message" that an individual and "their kind" will not be tolerated, often leaving large numbers of people feeling isolated, vulnerable and unprotected.
Attacks against LGBT people are one of the more common forms of hate violence but, illogically, one of the least protected. Hate crimes as a whole declined 1 percent last year, according to the FBI, but LGBT hate crimes increased 6 percent.
It's long past time that we expand federal hate crimes law to cover sexual orientation and gender identity. And we must give local law enforcement officials the resources needed to investigate and prosecute these crimes.
Please protect civil rights by giving this bill your full support and attention, and by urging your colleagues to support it as well. |
