Ok so I called Rep. Ro Khanna's office. His DC office is closed due to COVID so the only option is to call his Santa Clara office at 408-436-2720. If you press "4" you are supposed to be connected to a person from their office but it went to VM for me. You do have the ...
... option to leave a VM with your contact info for a callback within 48 hours. For California residents I would highly encourage that option. For out of state residents you can choose "3" which allows you to voice your opinion on "any issue" and promises that the ...
... Congressman will be made aware of it. I highly encourage Indian Americans to call, the most effective calls will be from those who live in his district (which covers several notable Silicon Valley suburbs), then California residents and then Indian Americans outside of CA.
Here is a rough approximation of the message I left:
"Hi, my name is XYZ, I am an Indian American immigrant calling to highlight a recent controversy on which I would like the Congressman to speak out on our behalf ...
"Hi, my name is XYZ, I am an Indian American immigrant calling to highlight a recent controversy on which I would like the Congressman to speak out on our behalf ...
... is he aware of the xenophobic comments on Twitter by Silicon Valley Tech CEO Melinda Byerley who runs the Digital Marketing Consultancy Fiddlehead? ...
... in her Twitter thread on Monday she she called out prominent Indian American VC Vinod Khosla by name and then went on to extrapolate her vile criticisms to non-white tech immigrants ...
... who she accused of being "parasites" and racist parents who are "determined to stop their children from learning the history of race in America" ...
... she went on to accuse them of disliking the American system and wanting to turn America into a caste system or apartheid state like the countries they came from ...
... she called for such parasites (her words) to be prevented from gaining in a foothold in American communities and called them “strip miners” who ruin everything ...
... prominent Indian Americans such as former FCC Chairman Ajit Pai and Biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy have already condemned and criticized her bigotry and I hope the Congressman will do the same. Thank you."
Obviously feel free to give it your own flavor. We don't want his office to feel like it is a astrotruf operation want him to realize how grassroots this is.
The most important thing to do is call and try to get a live staffer by pressing 3. Leave a message regardless. If they get even a dozen calls daily they will be forced to react and take a stand.
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