Guide: Letters to the Editor

CNY Solidarity Coalition’s legislative action team (aka Indivisible Onondaga County) encourages letters to the editor highlighting Unrepresentative Rep. Williams’s extreme MAGA positions and the dangers of Project 2025. Here are some talking points to help. If you have suggested additions/revisions, send them our way.

For tips on how to write letters to the editor that make a difference. Check out this great resource by Indivisible & The OpEd Project:
https://www.indivisibleguide.com/resource/writing-opeds-make-difference/

Here is a list of potential outlets located within William’s district include:

Syracuse Post-Standard, letters@syracuse.com
Auburn Citizen, https://auburnpub.com/forms/online_services/letter/
Eagle Bulletin & Baldwinsville Messenger letters@eaglenewsonline.com

The Catholic Sun, letters@thecatholicsun.com

We recommend that you choose one or more of these outlets, submit your letter on-line or by email, and then follow-up by phone or email once daily until they print it. Here are some suggested talking points. The list is too long for any single letter; we recommend that you choose one or two that work for you, but everyone please use some version of the last one on the list:

Here are some helpful links for LTE’s on the dangers of Project 2025.
- Project 2025 Toolkit slides from Red Wine and Blue
- https://www.majorityovermaga.org/talkingaboutproject2025
Rep. Williams represents a diverse district, and many of his constituents feel directly threatened by Trump’s proposed policies regarding _________. Williams supports and is endorsed by Donald Trump. (At CNY Solidarity Coalition, the relevant issues we’ve been talking about the most are health care, environment, immigration, but feel free to emphasize others that are important to you. Whatever you choose, we recommend focusing on one issue per letter.)
If possible, tell a brief personal story about how you or your family feel threatened by this policy—e.g., with loss of health insurance under the Affordable Care Act (ACA)—but if you don’t have that, then speaking up on behalf of your friends and neighbors is fine too.
On Jan. 21, 2017 more than 2,000 people rallied outside the federal building in downtown Syracuse in support of women’s rights, and roughly 4 million did so in other communities around the country. That’s 1 in every 77 people, nationwide, standing up to defend equal treatment for women, full reproductive rights, support for Planned Parenthood, an end to sexual assault, and more.

You can read recent letters published in the Post-Standard here. If you see any good ones, distribute them on social media and tag CNY Solidarity Coalition and Indivisible NY 24th on Facebook or Twitter (here or here).