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I've been involved in sitebuilding for a couple advocacy groups and
your civicrm with drupal and joomla is a very attractive package.

There is one piece of functionality I would like to see you put on the
wishlist.

I belong to a number of advocacy mail lists, among them the Consumer
Reports action list. They have a function that will allow a group
mailing recipient to click a link which leads to a form where you can
then email your congresspeople about a specific piece of legislation.
Putting in your zip code will ensure that the email goes to the right
congresspeople, and will limit to the senate if it's a senate bill,
and the house if it's a house bill. I imagine the software is
accessing one of the government databases for this information.

This is the type of link I mean.
https://secure.npsite.org/cu/site/Advocacy?JServSessionIdr009=4alalhh3q1.app44a&cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=1719

I think it's possible that the Sunlight api might make this
tie in easier, at least it's worth a look-see.

http://sunlightlabs.com/api/

If this is something that can be added to civcrm, and if you do so, I,
for one, will be thrilled. I might even be persuaded to donate a
template or two to the cause in exchange. It would seem to be a
natural extension of the functions you're handling already.

Thanks for a great tool!