Thread: DREAM ACT VOTE TODAY NUMBERSUSA

From: Roy Beck, President, NumbersUSA
Date: Tuesday 21SEP2010 7 a.m. EDT




DREAM ACT AMNESTY VOTING STARTS TODAY

Could Go Either Way -- Pro-Amnesty Forces Say They Will Win
Because They Will Outphone Us For The First Time

Please Phone 12 Senators Running For Re-Election

The first vote is set for 2:15 this afternoon.

Pro-amnesty zealots are predicting that a massive, last-minute phone bank effort by the website DailyKos and the SEIU unions will bury our anti-amnesty voices today. (See the boasts lower in this email.)

They claim that they have processed more than 60,000 pro-amnesty phone calls to Congress through their phone banks!

We need your phone calls, urging opposition to any amnesty for illegal aliens during this time of incredible unemployment. (See the targets I'm giving you below.)

NumbersUSA had grassroots activists in the Capitol yesterday visiting nearly every Senate office. In many offices, staffers said your phone calls are matching the pro-amnesty calls 50-50. But many more said we are losing 40-60 and by even more.

Friends, always in the past, Senators have faced an amnesty vote knowing that phone calls were running 80-20 and even 99-1 in our favor. It is part of the reason we have beaten every amnesty since 2000.

Please don't let yourself or your country down by failing to make a critical phone call today (and hopefully several of them).

CONGRESSIONAL SWITCHBOARD -- 202-224-3121

It appears that the vote today will be very close. If the Senate Ledership succeeds in its first vote today, we seem likely to have a second vote on Wednesday. Senators are being lobbied furiously by the pro-amnesty forces. They and their staffs need to hear from you.

ACTION: Phone Senators who are asking voters in November to return them to Congress for another six years.

SEE THE LIST OF SENATORS BELOW.

We are asking our members in 16 other states to focus their phone calls on key swing-vote Senators in their region.

I am asking you, though, to concentrate on these Senators below who are up for re-election. Amazingly, most feel so confident (or arrogant) that they are willing to label themselves as sure votes for an amnesty.

I am listing Senators running for re-election who are either currently planning to vote FOR the DREAM Act amnesty or who are not at all reliable NO votes.

While many of these Senators may feel like a lost cause, we need them to feel the level of outrage at their lack of concern for unemployed Americans. If you can cause them to see how their pro-amnesty stance hurts their posturing as somebody trying to put the jobless back to work, they may work behind the scenes to press Senate Leadership to pull the amnesty before they have to vote.

When you phone, stress that:
DREAM amnesty has zero enforcement. Illegal-alien teenagers are in their current predicament because their parents were allowed to illegally take jobs and then hold them. The DREAM amnesty would allow millions more parents to do the same in the future.

Millions more illegal aliens will be enticed to come and take U.S. jobs once they see the way previous illegal aliens are rewarded by the DREAM amnesty.

This new flow of illegal workers will further the suffering of 22 million unemployed Americans who want a job but can't find one.

A vote for DREAM amnesty is a vote in favor of bringing in more illegal foreign workers and keeping millions of Americans jobless.

Tell them that their amnesty stance is a strange one for a candidate asking voters to believe that he/she is representing the best interests of the state!
HERE ARE THE INCUMBENTS RUNNING FOR RE-ELECTION
AND WHO ARE CURRENTLY CONSIDERED LIKELY PRO-AMNESTY VOTES

(D-Ark.) Sen. Lincoln
D.C. Phone 202-224-4843
Local Phone 501-375-2993
(Person Challenging the Senator in Election: U.S. Rep. Boozeman)

(D-Calif.) Sen. Boxer
D.C. Phone 202-224-3553
Local Phone 213-894-5000
(Person Challenging the Senator in Election: Businesswoman Carly Fiorina)

(D-Colo.) Sen. Bennet
D.C. Phone 202-224-5852
Local Phone 303-455-7600
(Person Challenging the Senator in Election: Weld Co. District Atty. Ken Buck)

(D-Hawaii) Sen. Inouye
D.C. Phone 202-224-3934
Local Phone 808-541-2542
(Person Challenging the Senator in Election: Former State Rep. Campbell Cavasso)

(D-Maryland) Sen. Mikulski
D.C. Phone 202-224-4654
Local Phone 410-962-4510
(Person Challenging the Senator in Election: Queen Anne's Co. Commissioner Eric Wargotz)

(D-Nev.) Sen. Reid
D.C. Phone 202-224-3542
Local Phone 702-388-5020
(Person Challenging the Senator in Election: Former Assemblywoman Sharron Angle)

(D-N.Y.) Sen. Gillibrand
D.C. Phone 202-224-4451
Local Phone 212-688-6262
(Person Challenging the Senator in Election: Former Congressman Joseph DioGuardi)

(D-N.Y.) Sen. Schumer
D.C. Phone 202-224-6542
Local Phone 212-486-4430
(Person Challenging the Senator in Election: Business Professional Jay Townsend)

(D-Oregon) Sen. Wyden
D.C. Phone 202-224-5244
Local Phone 503-326-7525
(Person Challenging the Senator in Election: Law Professor Jim Huffman)

(D-Vermont) Sen. Leahy
D.C. Phone 202-224-4242
Local Phone 802-863-2525
(Person Challenging the Senator in Election: Businessman Len Britton)

(D-Wash.) Sen. Murray
D.C. Phone 202-224-2621
Local Phone 206-553-5545
(Person Challenging the Senator in Election: Former State Senator Dino Rossi)

(D-Wis.) Sen. Feingold
D.C. Phone 202-224-5323
Local Phone 414-276-7282
(Person Challenging the Senator in Election: Former State Senator Dino Rossi)

All the Republicans running for re-election appear to be strongly OPPOSED to the DREAM amnesty.

PRO-AMNESTY BLOG BOASTS ABOUT OVERWHELMING US
IN THE PHONE ACTIVISM EFFORT

On the immigration law website called ILW.com today, we found this troubling boast:

Democratic activists across the country are banding together for the largest phone call campaign in pro-immigration history.

DailyKos, one of the most important progressive websites has joined forces with the Service Employees International Union, the most pro-immigration among the major unions, to phone bank the Senate switchboard into a jammed state.

We believe this will be the first time ever that the pro-immigration calls will out-number the anti-immigrationists. We congratulate both DailyKos and SEIU on this outstanding initiative and we urge our readers to participate, seehere for how.

In the past, those Senators who wanted to weasel out of supporting immigration benefits legislation have pointed to the lop-sided numbers in phone calls for and against. The numbers often cited by such nervous Senators were 1-to-40, 1-to-70, and even 1-to-100 against the pro-side.

For the first time, these nervous nellies will have the kind of numbers they have demanded from pro-immigration advocates; the better phone ratios will provide political cover for YES votes on DREAM.

With grassroots pro-immigration supporters lighting up the phone-lines across the country, the spotlight is now on the Democratic leadership, especially President Obama and Majority Leader Reid to ensure that there are no Democratic defections on DREAM.

-- From the ILW.com pro-amnesty website

Click here to read my new blog that I put up last night about the DREAM Act amnesty. It describes how this not only isn't an "enforcement-first amnesty" but is an "enforcement-never amnesty." If you need more talking points for your phone call, you'll find them in the blog.

IF YOU HAVE NEVER PHONED A SENATE OFFICE BEFORE, let me assure you that it can be very easy.

1. Just call and say hello to the staffer who answers.

2. Say you are calling in opposition to including the DREAM Act amnesty in the Defense bill.

3. You can give maybe one reason why you think DREAM is a bad idea.

4. Thank the staffer for listening and say good-bye.

Friends, it is most important that you get these Senators' staffers thinking about DREAM in terms of jobs and unemployed Americans.

The pro-amnesty forces want the Senators to feel that they aren't compassionate if they don't support the amnesty. But you want the staffers to think about compassion for the millions of Americans who are unemployed because illegal aliens are allowed to hold jobs.

PLEASE DON'T DELAY. MAKE YOUR PHONE CALLS NOW.

THANKS,

http://www.numbersusa.com/content/nusab ... tid=495353

Good Morning to all. Calling the names on the list.

This threat to the nation from the attachments by Democrats to the Defense Bill is worth every effort by all of us to call, email, fax every name.

Psalm 118:24, it is written, This is the day the LORD has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it.

Lets shut down Amnesty today!!!

http://www.alipac.us/ftopict-212960.html