[Edit: I'm out of invites now, but anyone who uses the service (theres a fair amount out there, 144,000 who signed up with google plus whoever has an android-powered phone) should go to the web interfaced, in the bottom left are you invite totals. Consider donating them in a comment to this diary]
Google has a free product called Google Voice. It sits on top of your other phones (home, work, cell, softphone) and gives you one number that connects to whichever one you tell it to at that time, dialing out through your new number, as well as giving you a nice central interface for text messages and voice mail all accessible by phone or computer. And it let's you chose your area code.
I have 2 invites left on my account, I'm willing to send them to whoever wants them. As you walk through the process, it lets you choose your phone number and area code. For those who want to make it through the call screening Stupak's office is doing (only letting calls from the UP of Michigan go through to anyone important), this combined with a list of area codes from his district:
Zip codes from his district; (19+ / 0-)
49858 49887 49821 49812 49829 (his home town) 49801 49855.
Just called - the guy answering the phone tried to tell me it was "just an extension of the Hyde Amendment". When I didn't buy it, he didn't yell, (I kinda' started to because he was talking over me) and then quickly cut me off. Asshole. Flood those phone lines!
"If you trust you are not critical; if you are critical you do not trust" by our own Dauphin
by gustynpip on Mon Nov 09, 2009 at 12:35:14 PM PST
and towns:
Oh, and if they want the cities (well, most only (7+ / 0-)
qualify as towns), they'd be 58-Menominee (pronounced Men ohm i nee, 87-Stephenson, 12-Carney, 21-Daggett, 29-Escanaba,01-Iron Mountain, 55-Marquette.
"If you trust you are not critical; if you are critical you do not trust" by our own Dauphin
by gustynpip on Mon Nov 09, 2009 at 12:42:31 PM PST
Shoulod let you get through. It's despicable a member of a national body isn't allowing comment. I don't advocate outright lying, but a well-executed dropping of information and local information, combined with your new caller ID may be enough to get you by.
I'll hand out my invites to the first two people to ask, anyone else with a GV account should be encouraged to donate invites as well.