Back in the day, if you really wanted to make your point in the political arena, you’d march a crowd over to the office of your local elected official and demand that they do or not do something. Or you’d get your supporters to flood their office with calls, faxes or emails. These days, you just need a lot of folks with a few minutes and a Facebook page.

Over the last two days, supporters of the Save Our Safety Net Campaign, which is encouraging District officials to raise taxes on the city’s highest earners instead of cutting services for the poor, have taken over two of D.C. Council Chairman and mayoral contender Vincent Gray’s Facebook pages, posting messages and pictures encouraging him to side with their cause. (They’ve also managed to get members of the council to dress up like superheroes and got Gray on the record saying that he thought tax increases in an election year weren’t politically feasible.)

To date, over 150 SOS-themed messages have been posted on the walls of the two pages. One is a a simple public official page for Gray as chairman which is run by a supporter, while the other is the Gray for Mayor page and is run by his campaign staff.

Joni Podschun, an organizer behind the campaign, told us that while she directed supporters to post messages and content only on Gray’s non-campaign page (due to legal restrictions on a non-profit’s involvement in electoral politics), the original creator of the page, Jeremiah Lowery, was so taken by the message that he then encouraged people to start posting on Gray’s campaign page as well. And so they did.

Podschun noted that Save Our Safety Net plans to meet with Gray’s staff this morning, in the hopes of convincing the chairman to change his mind on the progressive tax proposal. In the meantime, Gray’s campaign posted this lukewarm response on Facebook:

Thank you to everyone who posted messages about the budget yesterday. Vince genuinely appreciates hearing from District residents who care about making our city better, so thank you for stepping up and speaking up.