<p>Our Congresswoman is totally non-responsive. Numerous t/c and letters have gone unanswered. Also, her web site is 2-3 years out-of-date.</p>
<p>What can we do, other than concentrate our efforts on our 2 senators?</p>
<p>Is her office close enough so that you and your child can actually go by and talk to a staff person face-to-face? That might be the best way to make contact. Be polite but persistent, and good luck!</p>
<p>Or leave a message that your PAC has a $25,000 campaign contribution to make and you need to know where to sent it. She’ll call within the hour - guaranteed.</p>
<p>Non-responsive with regards to what?</p>
<p>Members of Congress typically have a nomination manager who handles all the service academy nomination applications and questions. If this persons contact information is not on the Congresswoman’s website then call your local office and ask for that person.</p>
<p>osdad, catching fish does require the right bait, doesn’t it. 
Yours is bound to get a rise for sure …
Keep your polaroids on, minimize glare. :eek:</p>
<p>A subtle variation on your approach might be to have your friend who is that donor/broker call to put in a good word. ;)</p>
<p>What exactly are you calling to ask them? Typically the MOC applications are done online and they will contact your son/daughter if want to interview them. Some have indicated that everyone does not handle these the same way and some give out noms without having face-to-face interviews.</p>
<p>With only 2 female Representatives from Michigan, it’s easy to tell which one it is.</p>
<p>While Rep. Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick’s (D-MI 13th) website is extemely informative and has all links and Service Academy nomination forms available for her constituents (VERY nicely done, I must say) the web site of Representative Candice Miller (R-MI 10th) has no such link, not even a section on HOW to apply for a Service Academy Nomination!</p>
<p>To think that Rep. Candice Miller actually served on the House Armed Services Committee, and has no information at all about how to obtain a nomination on her web site.</p>
<p>Shameful</p>
<p>I found it very quickly</p>
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<p>Yes, I did too after searching her site thoroughly.</p>
<p>If you type in “Service Academy” in her “Search” box it will find the link, but oddly when you check under the section entitled “SERVICES” (where the link takes you) there is no such link listed.</p>
<p>And if you actually CLICK on the link to her Service Academy nomination form, you get…</p>
<p>**The requested page could not be found</p>
<p>If you arrived here by selecting a link provided by a site other than the U.S. House of Representatives, please notify the originating site of this error. **</p>
<p>I would call her local office or stop in. If you still have no luck call the CGO.</p>
<p>UMDad, we had a similar situation. It took a total of 10 calls/visits/emails to get the one page, 8-1/2 x 11 app in 2006, when every other MOC seemed to have the form on a website. </p>
<p>And get this: when she nominated my son, she didn’t tell him. No call, no letter, nothing. Son found out from the Academy, then had to call her office again multiple times to find out whom to thank besides her. </p>
<p>Keep at your MOC, and go stand in her office if you have to. It’s a shame that some of our elected officials run such flaky operations, but you don’t skip her as a nomination source.</p>
<p>Luigi, CCK’s website has only been recently updated. Not more than two weeks ago, it was referencing candidates for 2007.</p>
<p>Calls to her office were continually unresponsive.</p>
<p>S has now jumped on completing her application process in the next 4 days.</p>
<p>She made a Jan 2009 press release about her new virtual office where those in her district could access various items, one of them being service academy appointments. So it was on her radar screen at the beginning of this year. </p>
<p>A lot of MOCs hire part timers for SA liaisons. Some times of the year can be more difficult than others to find someone in the local office who knows all the nuances of an appointment.</p>
<p>The good news is that I’m sure it is equally hard for everyone. So, if you can get through this roadblock, your odds are very high! If you learn to never give up this early, you are going to do quite wel…</p>
<p>“Some lawmakers send few to academies”(AP)</p>
<p>[AP</a> IMPACT: Some lawmakers send few to academies - Yahoo! News](<a href=“http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091120/ap_on_re_us/us_military_academies_minorities]AP”>http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091120/ap_on_re_us/us_military_academies_minorities)</p>
<p>All’s well that ends well. S had his interview this morning and felt that it went well. I guess we got everything in on time.</p>