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May 19, 2008 10:26 AM

CJBL

Member Since:
May 25, 2007

Last Thursday, Sen. Diane Feinstein (D-CA) managed to get a gigantic Illegal Alien Amnesty attached to the Iraq War funding bill.

Because this amnesty is attached to a so-called "must-pass" funding bill, it will now prove very difficult to defeat.

Our danger is SEVERE! Let me remind you of the stakes in this fight.

If it passes, this bill will GIVE AN AMNESTY to about 3 MILLION Illegal Aliens agricultural workers and their families for five years (at least!).

In the midst of all my requests to you to fax and phone, my business staff reminds me that this is the mid-month point when I need to raise another month's financial support for our operations.

Several times last year we seemed on the verge of defeat in just this kind of circumstance.

But each time, we alerted our NumbersUSA members, and you sent hundreds of thousands of faxes, made thousands of phone calls, and provided the financial support we needed in the crunch.

Time after time last year, we turned defeats into victories. But can we do it again?

Especially in this time of political crisis, we need thousands of you to press the button below as soon as you receive this email.

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I had hoped the threat of new amnesties was over until after the election. Well, Diane Feinstein pulled her fast one, and the battle we didn't want is now upon is. We must respond. Our expenses are going up—WAY, WAY UP, as we pull out every stop to beat the Amnesty.

The struggle is now, and we need your help right now.

May 19, 2008 11:21 AM

anthrobio

Member Since:
April 5, 2008

This is the lowest people can get. D. Feinstein acting like a prowler in the middle of the night. She basicly disregarded all the emails and phone call we has sent to her. To me that's an act of betrayal toward the American citizens. They listened to the Chamber of Commmerce and the Farm businesses and other interests bussiness groups, but not to us. She better make sure that those interest groups get enough votes for her when she runs again, because my votes next elections won't be for her.

Carmen Gonzalez

From: California

May 19, 2008 11:31 AM

(CM) Jim from Texas

Member Since:
February 16, 2007

I've already gotten after it this morning CJBL -- thanks for the post!

If you're not already members, please sign up and get your faxes sent and phone calls made. NumbersUSA does an outstanding job of notifing members about immigration battles and has an easy "Action Board" where you can send pre-worded and/or custom faxes to your Senators and Reps!

http://www.numbersusa.com/

TEXAN...NO - I WON'T FORGET THE ALAMO! "Where's the Fence???" RINO huntin' season started January 10th (but ended January 22nd)! FRED has left the building!!!! MITT has entered my world! Oops, MITT left my world too soon also (on February 7th)! Dang, can't catch a break -- but Hillary, Obama, and McCain aren't it either (nor Huckabee, Paul, Keyes, Nader, ad nauseum)!

May 19, 2008 11:52 AM

Kaksdesign

Member Since:
February 16, 2007

Thanks for posting this CJBL, and Jim thanks for getting out the word on recruitment for numbers. It is so important for more and more people to sign up for this easy way to get to senators and representatives without hardly any effort.

May 19, 2008 12:05 PM

CJBL

Member Since:
May 25, 2007

Senate Committee Passes Amnesty for Illegal Ag Workers

(NumbersUSA.com -- May 19, 2008) -- At last week's markup of the Iraq supplemental appropriations bill, the Senate Appropriations Committee committed an outrageous act of disrespect for our men and women in uniform and to the citizens of this country by adopting an amendment by Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) that gives amnesty to illegal-alien agricultural workers. The amendment indicates a maximum of 1.35 million illegal alien ag workers could obtain "emergency agricultural worker status" for a five-year period. Since their families also can obtain this status, it is estimated that the total number receiving an amnesty would reach 3 million. The committee also adopted other immigration-related amendments, including one that drastically expands the H-2B visa program for non-agricultural seasonal workers.

The full Senate may begin work on the bill on Tuesday, May 20, so please contact your Senators now to urge them to work to strip the amnesty from the Iraq spending bill on the floor, as well as the other amendments increasing immigration levels.

Capitol Switchboard: 202-224-3121 [Click here for contact info and to find your officials]

The most important point to stress is that there is no need for an amnesty to provide growers with workers. There already is an H-2A foreign ag worker program that provides growers with an unlimited number of temporary workers if the growers agree to pay a decent wage and ensure that they go home at the end of the season. Feinstein is just trying to protect the abysmally low wages and bad working conditions that farmworkers labor under.

May 19, 2008 12:35 PM

CJBL

Member Since:
May 25, 2007

I have called both Senator Diane Feinsteins and Barbara Boxers offices today.

In both cases the phone lines were busy and calls were waiting.

Keep up the pressure and let them know the consequences of there actions if they continue down this path.

We can not afford to lose this battle - AZ and OK and now Missouri have tough laws where you have to use E=verify to insure the Social Security is valid and not stolen - but here in CA - this will open the flood gates to more stolen identities and job losses.

Help stop this madness.

thanks!

May 19, 2008 03:42 PM

CJBL

Member Since:
May 25, 2007

Hi Guys - how is the calling going?

We need to win this - hope you are getting thru!

May 19, 2008 03:54 PM

Kaksdesign

Member Since:
February 16, 2007

Just received another high priority email alert from Roy Beck-numbersusa.com. It's not sounding good unless they continue to acquire more members and contributions to keep the faxing going.

Please send the alerts to your friends and family and ask them to send the free faxes. This is so critical.

May 19, 2008 05:12 PM

way2sassy031046

Member Since:
February 13, 2007

Our elected officals are suppose to protect America stand up for her laws and her people, When are we going to call these tryants what they are and call for all the treasonist to be arrested.

May 19, 2008 05:21 PM

(CM) Jim from Texas

Member Since:
February 16, 2007

UPDATE:

From: Anne Manetas, Deputy Director, NumbersUSA

Date: 19MAY08 1 p.m.

Amnesty Actions TODAY

Friends,

The country is in great danger this week of a major amnesty for illegal aliens. The threat level is extremely high. We are on red alert. Defeating this amnesty will not be easy. The odds are against us. But we have overcome odds like this before and won. We can do it again with your help. Your country needs you.

I am not just cheerleading when I tell you that we can beat this amnesty ONLY if all of you send the faxes and make the phone calls we've posted on your Action Buffet corkboard . Please go there immediately.

And ONLY if you enlist as many of your friends, relatives, neighbors and colleagues as possible by forwarding this Alert to them.

Especially important is that you pick up the phone and make the calls to your two Senators that we've requested.
Phone Number

202-224-3121

DETAILS ON THE AMNESTY

The Senate Appropriations Committee voted 17-12 to attach an amnesty to the Iraq supplemental spending bill. The amendment that passed provides a 5-year visa for up to 1.35 million illegal agricultural workers—but the cap of 1.35 million does not include spouses and children, who would bring the total amnesty to a total of about 3 million.

in this email:

1. Fax and Phone TODAY to stop amnesty
2. Amnesty Details
3. What Happened? What is Next?
4. Your faxing and phoning is getting noticed
5. Taking Message to the Airways
6. Thank you!

actions in brief:

Refer all friends to the NumbersUSA.com website.

Check for your latest free faxes to send to Congress & the Administration at:
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Rosemary Jenks (Vice President, Government Relations) spent the weekend analyzing the Feinstein AgJOBS amendment. She has outlined the most egregious aspects of the amnesty here. You won’t want to talk about the AgJOBS amnesty without reading this first. In fact, I recommend printing a copy and reading from it as you phone your Senators or talk radio stations. Find it online here http://www.numbersusa.com/PDFs/AgJOBS_Amnesty_2008.pdf.

Could show by “a preponderance of the evidence” that he worked 863 hours or 150 work days (defined as 5.75 hours of work per “work day”), or earned at least $7,000 in agricultural employment between January1, 2004, and December 31, 2007;
NOTE FROM NUMBERSUSA: In other words, the illegal alien would have to show that he was illegally employed in agriculture for a grand total of less than 22 weeks during a four-year period! And he can prove his employment history “by producing sufficient evidence to show the extent of that employment as a matter of just and reasonable inference.”
Filed an amnesty application with a “qualified designated entity,” or with DHS directly if he is represented by an attorney or a nonprofit organization, during an 18-month application period that would begin six months after enactment of the amnesty;
NOTE FROM NUMBERSUSA: No illegal alien is permitted to file an application for the amnesty without assistance from an attorney or an advocacy group—a “qualified designated entity” is defined as a labor or employer association or “any such other person” with “substantial experience” in filing adjustment of status applications.
Was not a known terrorist or convicted criminal; and
NOTE FROM NUMBERSUSA: Criminals would only be barred if they had been convicted of one or more felonies or three or more misdemeanors, so a couple of convictions for domestic violence or drunk and disorderly are fine, since those are generally misdemeanor offenses. And, of course, terrorists-in-waiting—those who have not yet committed a terrorist act or been caught with other known terrorists so they could be added to the watch list—likely would have no trouble qualifying for this amnesty, just as Mahmud Abouhalima, an illegal-alien cab driver in New York, qualified for the 1986 agricultural amnesty before going on to drive a bomb into the World Trade Center in 1993.
Paid a “fine” of $250.

Bring his spouse and children here to join him, or legalize their status, if they are already here illegally;
Official U.S. government identification documents, including a valid social security number—with which he would be able to apply for a driver’s license—and a work permit (spouses would be allowed to apply for work permits, as well); and
Immunity from prosecution for committing social security fraud if he had been working illegally with a false or stolen social security number.

WHAT HAPPENED? WHAT’S NEXT?

Last Thursday, the Senate Appropriations Committee added several immigration amendments to the version of the Iraq Supplemental they were marking up.

First was the Feinstein AgJOBS-lite amendment, which passed by a recorded vote of 17-12;
Second was a Mikulski H-2B amendment--for the next three years, it would exempt from the annual cap of 66,000 any H-2B workers who were admitted during the previous three years. (The impact on the numbers could be exponential--they could rise from 66,000 in FY 2008 to over 400,000 by FY2011.) This passed by a recorded vote of 23-6!
Third was an amendment by Sens. Murray and Gregg to "recapture unused" employment-based visas from the past couple of decades. Since any employment-based visas that are not used in one year are added to the number of available family-based visas for the following year, there are no "unused" employment-based visas, and so there are none to "recapture." However, Murray and Gregg's deceptive manipulation of visa numbers would add an estimated 218,000 (total) employment-based visas to the annual cap of 140,000, until they are all used (again!). This amendment passed by voice vote.
Finally, Sen. Leahy offered an amendment to reauthorize the investor visa program. This, too, was approved by voice vote.

On the same day, the House voted down its version of the Iraq Supplemental. Since all appropriations bill must originate in the House, the Senate cannot move their bill to the floor until the House passes a version and sends it to the Senate. A new Iraq Supplemental has not yet been put on the House floor schedule, but our Capitol Hill team expects that they will move one soon after their return on Tuesday.

The Senate has to wait for a House version of the bill which means it could come to a vote in the Senate as early as Wednesday or Thursday. That means we have until at least Wednesday to saturate the Senate with faxes and phone calls opposing the amnesty.

That is why we are asking you right now and every day this week to go to your Action Buffet corkboard and take every AgJOBS-related action possible.

YOUR FAXING AND PHONING IS GETTING NOTICED

Since we first alerted you to this amnesty threat on Thursday of last week, the more than 625,000 of you in the NumbersUSA Action Network have sent over:

182,000 Faxes!

TAKING THE MESSAGE TO THE AIRWAYS

Last summer when we defeated the “comprehensive” Senate amnesty bill, talk radio was widely cited as one of the factors in that defeat. In order to get the message out to a larger audience about this outrageous amnesty attempt, NumbersUSA representatives have been on talk radio shows since Thursday telling people about the amnesty and answering questions about it. This is a great time to use Rosemary’s AgJOBS handout to contact talk radio stations in your area and tell them about the latest amnesty push.

THANK YOU

We have received a number of emails from some of you expressing major frustration with our elected officials as a result of this latest amnesty move. You have every right to be frustrated, but don’t let frustration cause you to throw your hands in the air and give up. We have beaten the odds and massive amnesties before and we can do it again with your help. The challenge is great, but not insurmountable.

Thank you for all you do for the country,

ANNE

P.S. We can triple our membership quickly if our members email their friends about us and they in turn email theirs. Polls show that most Americans agree with Numbersusa's positions but, despite our recent rapid growth, most of these folks still have never heard of us. You can help change that by forwarding this email. (Note: depending on your email provider, you may need to send this as an "attachment.")

May 19, 2008 05:33 PM

nancy sivill

Member Since:
February 8, 2007

And from ALIPAC

Friends of ALIPAC,

We need every man, woman, and child on the ready line immediately.

In the past we have stopped several amnesty attempts and we can do it again today, if enough of you respond and take action!

The sellouts in the Senate originally hoped to rush the Agjobs Amnesty embedded in the Iraq War spending bill with a vote last Friday.

The vote has been pushed back and is now scheduled for Wed May 21!

This delay is to our advantage, if we use the time wisely. In the past, delays have played to our favor, because it takes us a few days to get our political machinery in full gear and the public warned into action.

Special Note: This will not be easy. While ALIPAC makes every effort to make things as simple as possible for you, this battle will not be won with click and go efforts. The US Senate does not publicize their e-mail addresses and even if they did, sending an e-mail would be the least effective thing you could do.

YOU MUST USE THE PHONES!

Please take immediate action following these instructions.

1. Warn Talk Radio Shows and get our voices on the air immediately.

We need you e-mailing and calling all of the talk radio shows on our directory. Tell the hosts "I want to hear you warning listeners about this bill on the air right away!" Then monitor the shows and if you do not hear the host talking about it, call in and get the warning out.

If you hear a show warning the public or you get on the air to warn the public that is a SCORE. Report your Score at the feedback link provided below.

TALK RADIO DIRECTORY
http://www.alipac.us/ftopict-76263.html

FEEDBACK LINK
http://www.alipac.us/ftopicp-688190.html

2. Get on the phones again to your two US Senators. Ask them if your Senator has issued a statement for or against the immigration language in the Iraq Spending bill. If they say they are opposed, thank them for their stance. If they say they are for it, explain why you feel their position is wrong. If they do not have a stance yet, lobby them to oppose any immigration materials in the war spending bill.

PLEASE REPORT YOUR FINDINGS ON THE FEEDBACK LINK, AS WE WILL BEGIN TRACKING VOTES TODAY.

US SENATE Contact Information Directory
http://www.alipac.us/ftopict-63874.html

FEEDBACK AND TRACKING LINK
http://www.alipac.us/ftopicp-688190.html

3. Make sure you know the latest details about this stealth amnesty and circulate the information to others with encouragements for them to take action. We are adding information to our homepage as it comes in. These latest articles can help you with your efforts.

AgJOBS Immigration Bill Is Stealth Amnesty
http://www.alipac.us/article3202.html

NumbersUSA Report on the Ag Jobs Amnesty Legislation
http://www.alipac.us/article3201.html

Sessions bucks farmworker addition to Iraq funding bill
http://www.alipac.us/article3200.html

If you have any questions or need any assistance, please post in the Feedback Tracking link at...
http://www.alipac.us/ftopicp-688190.html

The ALIPAC Team
www.alipac.us

May 19, 2008 07:42 PM

CJBL

Member Since:
May 25, 2007

We need to keep calling - Lou had this on his radio and TV show today and he really did a great job on the TV show and he asked all of his viewers who are concerned about this to call their Senators and Congressmen now.

He spoke with Jeff Sessions and they think the bill will come up to the floor this week if not Wed's definitely by Friday.

We brought the phones down once before and we can do it again.

Hang tough - we have Lou out there on TV and Radio every day helping us fight!

May 20, 2008 01:17 AM

VeeBee

Member Since:
May 18, 2007

Isn't it amazing how sneaky and sleazy our elected officials can be, like thieves in the night, so ashamed of what they are doing they hide it under cloak and darkness. Then they demand our respect!

I will be calling tomorrow for sure!

If you have to hyphenate your race--you are NOT an American!! This from a French-German-English-Irish-AMERICAN! See how silly this can become?

May 20, 2008 06:05 AM

CJBL

Member Since:
May 25, 2007

Senate Action Needed!	">http://capwiz.com/proenglish/utr/1/KG... Take Action!


In a classic example of special interest log rolling Senators Diane Feinstein (D-CA) and Larry Craig (R-ID) attached an amendment to the Iraq war funding bill in committee, that gives illegal aliens working in the agricultural industry a five year visa – a temporary amnesty that is sure to be made permanent before it expires. This is astounding. The agricultural industry just won a huge victory when Congress passed a pork-laden, budget-busting farm bill. Now the hogs are back at the trough demanding a huge cheap labor subsidy. If the Feinstein amendment becomes law an estimated 3 million mostly non-English speaking illegal aliens will instantly gain legal status. And farm workers in certain jobs get a green card after three years that puts them on the path to citizenship. ProEnglish strongly opposes Feinstein-Craig because it will dramatically expand the demand for government services in foreign languages – especially Spanish. Executive Order 13166, which ProEnglish is fighting in court, forces government agencies to provide services in foreign languages and eliminates incentives for immigrants to learn English. Passage of this amendment will add to the problem of illegal immigration and increase the cost to taxpayers of providing services in languages other than English, already estimated to cost billions of dollars a year. There is likely to be a motion to strike the Feinstein-Craig amendment when the war funding bill comes up for debate and final passage on the Senate floor this week. Please ask your Senators to support striking the Feinstein-Craig amendment on the Senate floor. TAKE ACTION Urge your senators to vote YES on a motion to strike the Emergency Agricultural Relief Act of 2008 from the Iraq Supplemental Appropriations bill

May 20, 2008 06:11 AM

CJBL

Member Since:
May 25, 2007

From: Anne Manetas, Deputy Director, NumbersUSA

Amnesty Actions TODAY

Friends,

The country is in great danger this week of a major amnesty for illegal aliens. The threat level is extremely high. We are on red alert. Defeating this amnesty will not be easy. The odds are against us. But we have overcome odds like this before and won. We can do it again with your help. Your country needs you.

I am not just cheerleading when I tell you that we can beat this amnesty ONLY if all of you send the faxes and make the phone calls we've posted on your http://www.numbersusa.com/hub?action=... color="#990000">Action Buffet corkboard . Please go there immediately.

And ONLY if you enlist as many of your friends, relatives, neighbors and colleagues as possible by forwarding this Alert to them.

Especially important is that you pick up the phone and make the calls to your two Senators that we've requested.
Phone Number

202-224-3121

DETAILS ON THE AMNESTY

The Senate Appropriations Committee voted 17-12 to attach an amnesty to the Iraq supplemental spending bill. The amendment that passed provides a 5-year visa for up to 1.35 million illegal agricultural workers—but the cap of 1.35 million does not include spouses and children, who would bring the total amnesty to a total of about 3 million.

in this email:

1. Fax and Phone TODAY to stop amnesty
2. Amnesty Details
3. What Happened? What is Next?
4. Your faxing and phoning is getting noticed
5. Taking Message to the Airways
6. Thank you!

actions in brief:

Refer all friends to the NumbersUSA.com website.

Check for your latest free faxes to send to Congress & the Administration at:
NumbersUSA.com/actionbuffet">http://www.numbersusa.com/hub?action=...

donate now:

This faxing system is 100% financed by the voluntary generosity of the 225,000-
plus Americans who use it.

http://www.numbersusa.com/hub?action=... color="#990000">Please click here to make any sized donation to keep this grassroots phenomenon strong and effective.

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Rosemary Jenks (Vice President, Government Relations) spent the weekend analyzing the Feinstein AgJOBS amendment. She has outlined the most egregious aspects of the amnesty http://www.numbersusa.com/hub?action=... color="#990000">here. You won’t want to talk about the AgJOBS amnesty without reading this first. In fact, I recommend printing a copy and reading from it as you phone your Senators or talk radio stations. Find it online here http://www.numbersusa.com/hub?action=... color="#990000">http://www.numbersusa.com/PDFs/AgJOBS_Amnesty_2008.pdf.

Could show by “a preponderance of the evidence” that he worked 863 hours or 150 work days (defined as 5.75 hours of work per “work day”), or earned at least $7,000 in agricultural employment between January1, 2004, and December 31, 2007;
NOTE FROM NUMBERSUSA: In other words, the illegal alien would have to show that he was illegally employed in agriculture for a grand total of less than 22 weeks during a four-year period! And he can prove his employment history “by producing sufficient evidence to show the extent of that employment as a matter of just and reasonable inference.”
Filed an amnesty application with a “qualified designated entity,” or with DHS directly if he is represented by an attorney or a nonprofit organization, during an 18-month application period that would begin six months after enactment of the amnesty;
NOTE FROM NUMBERSUSA: No illegal alien is permitted to file an application for the amnesty without assistance from an attorney or an advocacy group—a “qualified designated entity” is defined as a labor or employer association or “any such other person” with “substantial experience” in filing adjustment of status applications.
Was not a known terrorist or convicted criminal; and
NOTE FROM NUMBERSUSA: Criminals would only be barred if they had been convicted of one or more felonies or three or more misdemeanors, so a couple of convictions for domestic violence or drunk and disorderly are fine, since those are generally misdemeanor offenses. And, of course, terrorists-in-waiting—those who have not yet committed a terrorist act or been caught with other known terrorists so they could be added to the watch list—likely would have no trouble qualifying for this amnesty, just as Mahmud Abouhalima, an illegal-alien cab driver in New York, qualified for the 1986 agricultural amnesty before going on to drive a bomb into the World Trade Center in 1993.
Paid a “fine” of $250.

Bring his spouse and children here to join him, or legalize their status, if they are already here illegally;
Official U.S. government identification documents, including a valid social security number—with which he would be able to apply for a driver’s license—and a work permit (spouses would be allowed to apply for work permits, as well); and
Immunity from prosecution for committing social security fraud if he had been working illegally with a false or stolen social security number.

WHAT HAPPENED? WHAT’S NEXT?

Last Thursday, the Senate Appropriations Committee added several immigration amendments to the version of the Iraq Supplemental they were marking up.

First was the Feinstein AgJOBS-lite amendment, which passed by a recorded vote of 17-12;
Second was a Mikulski H-2B amendment--for the next three years, it would exempt from the annual cap of 66,000 any H-2B workers who were admitted during the previous three years. (The impact on the numbers could be exponential--they could rise from 66,000 in FY 2008 to over 400,000 by FY2011.) This passed by a recorded vote of 23-6!
Third was an amendment by Sens. Murray and Gregg to "recapture unused" employment-based visas from the past couple of decades. Since any employment-based visas that are not used in one year are added to the number of available family-based visas for the following year, there are no "unused" employment-based visas, and so there are none to "recapture." However, Murray and Gregg's deceptive manipulation of visa numbers would add an estimated 218,000 (total) employment-based visas to the annual cap of 140,000, until they are all used (again!). This amendment passed by voice vote.
Finally, Sen. Leahy offered an amendment to reauthorize the investor visa program. This, too, was approved by voice vote.

On the same day, the House voted down its version of the Iraq Supplemental. Since all appropriations bill must originate in the House, the Senate cannot move their bill to the floor until the House passes a version and sends it to the Senate. A new Iraq Supplemental has not yet been put on the House floor schedule, but our Capitol Hill team expects that they will move one soon after their return on Tuesday.

The Senate has to wait for a House version of the bill which means it could come to a vote in the Senate as early as Wednesday or Thursday. That means we have until at least Wednesday to saturate the Senate with faxes and phone calls opposing the amnesty.

That is why we are asking you right now and every day this week to go to your http://www.numbersusa.com/hub?action=... color="#990000">Action Buffet corkboard and take every AgJOBS-related action possible.

YOUR FAXING AND PHONING IS GETTING NOTICED

Since we first alerted you to this amnesty threat on Thursday of last week, the more than 625,000 of you in the NumbersUSA Action Network have sent over:

182,000 Faxes! LETS MAKE THIS 600k FAXES - AND PHONE CALLS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

TAKING THE MESSAGE TO THE AIRWAYS

Last summer when we defeated the “comprehensive” Senate amnesty bill, talk radio was widely cited as one of the factors in that defeat. In order to get the message out to a larger audience about this outrageous amnesty attempt, NumbersUSA representatives have been on talk radio shows since Thursday telling people about the amnesty and answering questions about it. This is a great time to use Rosemary’s AgJOBS handout to contact talk radio stations in your area and tell them about the latest amnesty push.

THANK YOU

P.S. We can triple our membership quickly if our members email their friends about us and they in turn email theirs. Polls show that most Americans agree with Numbersusa's positions but, despite our recent rapid growth, most of these folks still have never heard of us. You can help change that by forwarding this email. (Note: depending on your email provider, you may need to send this as an "attachment.")

May 20, 2008 06:28 AM

elaina

Member Since:
February 9, 2008

I am doing my part E-mailing, calling, and getting my friends involved. I am glad to have such good friends, and they are not tired of hearing from me yet. We are 'snowballing'.

2 Chronicles 7:14

May 20, 2008 09:05 AM

nancy sivill

Member Since:
February 8, 2007

I've been calling senators offices and am getting through on all immediately--what's up?? Their phones should be ringing and ringing... Only exception is Feinstein where you get a two minute wait and disconnect!!

May 20, 2008 10:41 AM

Suffering in AZ.1

Member Since:
May 20, 2007

I tired to call Feiinstein today and was put on hold. Tried again and the line rang busy. Tried her San Francisco office and the mailbox was full.

I've already called my senators but i wanted to tell Feinstein what I thought about the underhanded way she tacked her bill to a must pass Iraq funding bill.

My frustration runneth over.

Posted in good conscience after the great thread cleansing of November 2007 AD in which we stepped in unison to declare our good works.

May 20, 2008 11:44 AM

nancy sivill

Member Since:
February 8, 2007

Hey everyone, the phones are getting busier!!!. I just heard Rep Steve King from IA on open line--He said THIS MUST BE STOPPED--THIS IS A BIG ONE. Please get those phones a ringing!!!

I'm working on calling EVERY senator. So far have contacted around 60 so still a ways to go.

May 20, 2008 11:52 AM

CJBL

Member Since:
May 25, 2007

Keep Calling - Feinstein and Larry Craig and the entire Senate needs to know they are not getting away with this.

I just called Diane Feinsteins office and was put on hold with music, then I got hold of a young guy in her office named Larry.

He listened to me and then just took my zip code and said thank you he would pass the message along.

This is so frustrating I can't tell you.

Please keep calling all day today - don't let Diane or any of them think they have "won" and can just over rule the "we the people" part of the Constitution.

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