Advocacy Roll Out For Improved Deliverability

Following the 17.1 release, we did some improvements in the infrastructure for advocacy in order to improve our deliverability for some of our hardest to reach targets. 

As part of that improvement, we are rolling out changes in the back-end to switch targets (elected officials) from an older delivery mechanism to the new one we've recently added.  What this means for organizations, is that you really don't have to change anything in your day-to-day for setting up alerts or editing alerts.  It just means we are switching the delivery calls within our back-end system and will start monitoring those new delivery methods to evaluate their success rates.

I outlined in a previous blog post, the roll out for us updating targets within the system.  Below is the dates for the waves, and I will update the elected officials we plan to target very soon. 

Tuesday, February 9^th
Wave 1 – Federal Senators
 
FS-SD Thune, John
FS-IA, Ernst, Joni K.
FS-DE Coons, Christopher
FS-VT Leahy, Patrick
FS-MS Wicker, Roger
FS-MS Cochran, Thad
FS-TN Corker, Bob
FS-RI Whitehouse, Sheldon
FS-AR Boozman, John
FS-MT Tester, Jon
FS-OH Portman, Robert
FS-NV Heller, Dean
FS-MI, Stabenow, Debbie
FS-NH Shaheen, Jean
FS-DE Carper, Thomas
FS-KY and FL McConnell, Mitch
FS-AZ Flake, Jeff
FS-PA Toomey, Patrick
FS-GA, Perdue, David A.
FS-KS Moran, Jerry

UPDATE: Monday, February 13^th – POTUS/VPOTUS and rest of the Federal Senators (listed below)

Al Franken
Amy Klobuchar
Angus S. King Jr.
Ben L. Cardin
Benjamin 'Ben' E. Sasse
Bernie Sanders
Bill Cassidy
Bill Nelson
Bob P. Corker
Brian E. Schatz
Catherine M. Cortez-Masto
Charles 'Chuck' E. Schumer
Chris J. Van Hollen Jr.
Chris S. Murphy
Christopher 'Chris' A. Coons
Chuck Grassley
Claire McCaskill
Cory A. Booker
Cory S. Gardner
Daniel 'Dan' S. Sullivan
David A. Perdue Jr.
Dean Heller
Deb Fischer
Debbie A. Stabenow
Dianne Feinstein
Dick Durbin
Edward 'Ed' J. Markey
Elizabeth A. Warren
Gary C. Peters
Heidi Heitkamp
Jack F. Reed
James 'Jim' E. Risch
James 'Jim' M. Inhofe
James P. Lankford
Jeanne Shaheen
Jeff A. Merkley
Jeff B Sessions III
Jeff L. Flake
Jerry Moran
Joe Donnelly
Joe Manchin III
John A. Barrasso
John Cornyn III
John H. Hoeven III
John McCain III
John N. Boozman
John N. Kennedy
John Thune
Johnny Isakson
Jon Tester
Joni K. Ernst
Kamala Devi Harris
Kirsten E. Gillibrand
L. Tammy 'Tammy' Duckworth
Lamar Alexander
Lindsey Graham
Lisa A. Murkowski
Maggie Hassan
Marco Rubio
Maria Cantwell
Mark R. Warner
Martin T. Heinrich
Mazie K. Hirono
Michael F. Bennet
Mike B. Enzi
Mike D. Crapo
Mike Rounds
Mike S. Lee
Mitch McConnell
Orrin G. Hatch
Pat J. Toomey
Pat Roberts
Patrick 'Pat' J. Leahy
Patty Murray
Rand Paul
Richard 'Dick' Blumenthal
Richard C. Shelby
Richard M. Burr
Rob J. Portman
Robert 'Bob' Menendez
Robert 'Bob' P. Casey Jr.
Roger F. Wicker
Ron H. Johnson
Ron Wyden
Roy D. Blunt
Sheldon Whitehouse
Shelley Moore Capito
Sherrod C. Brown
Steve Daines
Susan M. Collins
Tammy Baldwin
Ted Cruz
Thad Cochran
Thom R. Tillis
Tim E. Scott
Tim M. Kaine
Todd C. Young
Tom Cotton
Tom R. Carper
Tom S. Udall
 
Thursday February 16^th – State Senators and Reps from Massachusetts, New Hampshire, California, plus Governors.
 
Tuesday February 21^st –  Updates to any Federal Senators, plus additional State Reps and Senators.

March 1st  -  State reps and senators for Washington and Minnesota were updated.

March 9  - Florida state reps with low deliverability.

March 21 -  Updating any state reps and senators that have low deliverability on a case by case situation.

We will be monitoring additonal state legislators throughout the upcoming weeks and we will move over any of those that become consistently hard to target. 

We will be evaluating after March municipal and county officials as well as governors to see how we can improve deliverability in this area as well.  As we move past February, we will continually monitor all elected officials and support cases around low deliverability  in order to move them to the new delivery method and improve deliverability. 

Lastly, I want to remind everyone that these changes aren't admin facing or user facing, so the change will come about without notice and the big difference will be seen in deliverability reports.