For an AG, should you handwrite the letter, like with congressmember offices, or type and print it like with normal legal work?
Congressional offices often ignore typed letters because they’ve learned years ago that some people set up mills that mass produce cookie-cutter letters mimicking civic engagement, instead of the legitimate paradigm of reaching out to interested people and convincing them to write their own letters, and see handwritten letters to be a costly signal that a large number of highly engaged people are involved; but if attorney generals aren’t in an equilibria like that then they’d probably prefer typed and printed letters.
Would be really curious to see what evidence you’re looking at re: congressional offices ignoring typed letters. The last thing I saw on this showed individualized emails slightly outperforming individualized hand-written letters, but both far outperforming form-based emails, probably for reasons you mention (from this post).
Also, I spent some time looking for grassroots campaigns to state AG offices earlier this year and found ~none, so I think there’s a good chance the novelty of any grassroots outreach might be more impactful than it is for congressional offices. That’s pure speclation on my part though.
For an AG, should you handwrite the letter, like with congressmember offices, or type and print it like with normal legal work?
Congressional offices often ignore typed letters because they’ve learned years ago that some people set up mills that mass produce cookie-cutter letters mimicking civic engagement, instead of the legitimate paradigm of reaching out to interested people and convincing them to write their own letters, and see handwritten letters to be a costly signal that a large number of highly engaged people are involved; but if attorney generals aren’t in an equilibria like that then they’d probably prefer typed and printed letters.
Would be really curious to see what evidence you’re looking at re: congressional offices ignoring typed letters. The last thing I saw on this showed individualized emails slightly outperforming individualized hand-written letters, but both far outperforming form-based emails, probably for reasons you mention (from this post).
Also, I spent some time looking for grassroots campaigns to state AG offices earlier this year and found ~none, so I think there’s a good chance the novelty of any grassroots outreach might be more impactful than it is for congressional offices. That’s pure speclation on my part though.