Civility Project.org Asks Governors & Members of Congress to Take The Civility Pledge

“Americans are fed up with incivility in politics,” according to a recent USA TODAY story about a new study by the Center for Political Participation at Allegheny College and a survey about political civility conducted by Zogby International.

CivilityProject.org was launched in January 2009 as a movement of liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans seeking to alter the increasingly uncivil tone in our country in general and politics in particular.

Now we have mailed a letter to every U.S. governor and member of Congress asking them to take a simple, 32-word Civility Pledge. We’ll post the results on this website for constituents, media and the general public to follow. For those who sign this pledge, we thank you in advance for committing to being part of the solution. As for any of our elected leaders who don’t subscribe to these three personal commitments, we’d like to hear why.

As we approach important mid-term elections this fall and a presidential election in two years many of us are hoping we can conduct important national business with civil discourse and debate rather than by screaming and shouting.

Click here to read the full letter to governors and members of Congress.

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