Grassfire's Efforts To Stop Bush-Kennedy Amnesty Bill Resonate Nationwide

Here is a small sampling of recent media coverage for Grassfire.org's efforts to stop the Bush-Kennedy Amnesty bill.

Media Features:

Cavuto & Friends (video)

MSNBC Interview with Steve Elliott (video)

Hannity & Colmes--2nd Where's The Fence Ad (video)

Hannity & Colmes --1st Ad (video)

NYTimes, P. 1 Lead Story: "Grass Roots Roared"
WASHINGTON, Mich., June 8 — The undoing of the immigration bill in the Senate this week had many players, but none more effective than angry voters like [Grassfire.org team member] Monique Thibodeaux, who joined a nationwide campaign to derail it.....

Laura Ingraham features "Where's The Fence?" (audio)

KJZZ (AZ Public Radio) Feature story on "Where's The Fence?" (audio--click on "listen")

Other media:

PR "All Things Considered" post-cloture vote report (audio-click on "listen")

Brit Hume (Fox News--video)

Media Matters lambasts MSNBC for supposed right-wing coverage of immigration debate
In a segment during the 10 a.m. ET hour of MSNBC Live, Novotny interviewed Grassfire.org president Steve Elliott. Grassfire.org is a self-described "online conservative issues advocacy organization." Elliott's biography asserts that "Grassfire has been at the forefront of the effort to secure our borders and stop illegal immigration." A July 19, 2006, Arizona Daily Star article quoted Elliot saying that the number of illegal immigrants in the United States "truly amounts to an invasion of our community."

Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Last week, a web-based organization called grassfire.org included Chambliss and Isakson in a national round of attack TV ads, entitled “Where’s the Fence?” The Georgia version, which appeared in metro Atlanta only, included photos of the two senators, both with buttons reading “Got Amnesty?”

Denver Post: Who Slew Immmigration Bill?
Groups opposed to legal status for illegal immigrants rallied supporters to call and e-mail senators. One such group, grassfire.org., said Friday that it "sent over 700,000 petitions, faxes and thousands of phone calls to Senate offices."

Columbia (MO) Tribune
"Grassfire sent over 700,000 petitions, faxes and thousands of phone calls to Senate offices these last few weeks," said Steve Elliott, president of Grassfire.org Alliance. "Our team knew what was at stake if this fiasco of a bill passed, and they responded like I knew they would. And that’s just one organization!"