Thread: Pour on the phone calls ... Please do not let up

From: Roy Beck, President, NumbersUSA
Date: Monday 22MAY06 1:30 p.m. EDT

Pour on the phone calls ... Please do not let up

THANKS FOR ALL THE CALLING ALREADY TODAY.

Here is what needs to be said in your calls the rest of the afternoon and Tuesday morning.

* Emphasize over and over that they do not want to be saddled the rest of their career with having voted for the biggest amnesty reward for lawbreakers in American history.


* Tell them that John McCain is making himself a laughing stock by his insistence that it would make more sense to call S. 2611 "bananas" than to call it an "amnesty." In fact, it is both. And the public is totally insulted by McCain and his crew's insistence that giving citizenship to 12 million illegal aliens is not AMNESTY.


* It is essential that you help these Senators' staffs (especially if you are from their states) to envision what it will be like during their next re-election bid to have to explain day after day their vote for a giant amnesty. Also, have them think about what it will feel like the rest of their careers to go into any setting at any time and have the collegiality of the moment shattered by bitter charges that they sold out America with this amnesty.


Use the links in the IN THIS EMAIL box in the upper right column of this email to look at the target groups of Senators who most need to be called.

PLEASE MAKE AT LEAST ONE PHONE CALL TUESDAY -- and then at least one more tomorrow.

Other than your own state's Senators, the most important Senators to call are those in GROUP TWO. They are NOT committed to voting NO on the S. 2611 amnesty, but they voted very well on amendments last week. They are our best bet for pulling in new people.

GROUP THREE has 5 in one section and 11 more in the next section. These 16 need to be pounded because they are showing every sign at this minute of caving in to their Democratic Party Leaders or to Pres. Bush and voting for the amnesty. But they are in states or other circumstances that just don't make sense for that kind of behavior.

GROUP ONE needs calls only from people from their own state. These are good people who have voted with us almost in every case the last week. A few may vote FOR cloture as a kind of deal they made to get their amendments considered. If so, it was a bad deal.

Your message to GROUP ONE Senators should be one of profound thankfulness and respect for their behavior the last week.

Then, emphasize that it is not being obstructionist to vote AGAINST cloture on S. 2611 because they know as well as you that the bill has not truly been investigated as to its overall effects and the ability of the government to carry it out without massive fraud and social disruption. It just doesn't make sense to have a vote on this bill at this time. So, no matter what deals they may think they've made, they owe it to themselves and the people of your state to vote AGAINST cloture, against allowing the bill to have a chance to be passed at this time.

What we are hearing on the Hill is that many of our allies in the Senate are discouraged and don't believe it is possible to win anymore.

We have seen this in many battles in the past. We have spent countless hours over recent years persuading our allies in Congress that the American people (at least the ones with whom we can communicate) will back them if they will lead.

When you call the 33 Senators in Group One, cheer them up, give them a pep talk, tell them they wouldn't believe how many people are pulling for them.

The final vote on S. 2611 will probably occur on Wednesday.

If at all possible and there is a Senator's office in your local area, visit it -- TUESDAY!

We have to persuade 41 Senators to vote NO on "cloture" on the giant S. 2611 amnesty bill.

Remember that you can call all Senators in their DC offices by using the Capitol Switchboard:

202-224-3121

YOU CAN FIND ADDRESSES AND PHONE NUMBERS FOR HOME STATE OFFICES BY USING THIS LINK:

www.numbersusa.com/contactcongress.html

Read the entire email alert at

http://www.numbersusa.com/actionalerts

CALL THEM ALL FOLKS DONT LET UP!

Maybe I'm just too excited and have already begun making calls... but I can't figure out which are group 1, group 2 and group 3

These should be sure votes to oppose final bill which will include amnesty for at least 10 million illegal aliens.

But anything can happen at the end. It is up to those of you in the states of these Senators to make sure that they absolutely are guaranteed to vote against S. 2611 later this week. Mainly, you will want to praise them for their vote FOR Vitter and for generally voting in favor of security, in favor of American workers and in favor of some stability in the quality of life of your communities.

We have to keep all 33 of these if we are to hope to stop S. 2611.

Alabama:
Sessions (R-AL)
Shelby (R-AL)
Arizona:
Kyl (R-AZ)
Colorado:
Allard (R-CO)
Georgia:
Chambliss (R-GA)
Isakson (R-GA)
Idaho:
Crapo (R-ID)
Iowa:
Grassley (R-IA)
Kansas:
Roberts (R-KS)
Kentucky:
Bunning (R-KY)
McConnell (R-KY)
Louisiana:
Vitter (R-LA)
Mississippi:
Lott (R-MS)--he missed first votes because of a funeral
Missouri:
Bond (R-MO)
Talent (R-MO)
Montana:
Burns (R-MT)
Nebraska:
Nelson (D-NE)
Nevada:
Ensign (R-NV)
North Carolina:
Burr (R-NC)
Dole (R-NC)
Oklahoma:
Coburn (R-OK)
Inhofe (R-OK)
Pennsylvania:
Santorum (R-PA)
South Carolina:
DeMint (R-SC)
South Dakota:
Thune (R-SD)
Texas:
Cornyn (R-TX)
Hutchison (R-TX)
Utah:
Bennett (R-UT)
Hatch (R-UT)
Virginia:
Allen (R-VA)
West Virginia:
Byrd (D-WV)
Wyoming:
Enzi (R-WY)
Thomas (R-WY)

All but 3 of the 33 voted RIGHT on all 9 amendments or voted wrong only on the Dorgan amendment.

The following 3 are a bit shakier because they voted the wrong way on 2 or 3 of the 9 most important amendments:

Alabama:
Shelby (R-AL) – Wrong on 3: Dorgan, Bingaman & Isakson

Kentucky:
McConnell (R-KY) – Wrong on 2: Dorgan & Kyl

Missouri:
Bond (R-MO) – 2: Wrong on: Dorgan & Bingaman

If we can keep all 33 on our side, we still will need 8 more NO votes on cloture on S. 2611 in order to stop the bill. Those 8 must come from the lists that follow.


POOL OF POSSIBLE ANTI-AMNESTY SENATORS .... 10 who did NOT vote for Vitter amendment to delete amnesty, but voted for Isakson amendment to seriously delay amnesty


The Isakson amendment failed, too. But it got 40 votes, rather than the 33 on Vitter.

Isakson would have effectively put an amnesty off for years by requiring implementation of enforcement and security first.

Persons in this list may have voted against Vitter for various reasons, but at least they showed willingness to break with the Bush/Kennedy/McCain open-borders cabal on this fairly tough Isakson amendment.

Most Promising Possibilities

Michigan:
Stabenow (D-MI) In a competitive re-election race (voted RIGHT 5 times; voted WRONG 4 times)

New Hampshire
Sununu (R-NH) Voted right 7 times & WRONG only 2 times

New Mexico:
Domenici (R-NM) Voted RIGHT 7 times & WRONG only 2 times

North Dakota:
Conrad (D-ND) Voted RIGHT 5 times & WRONG 4 times (Up for competitive election)
Dorgan (D-ND) Voted RIGHT 5 times & WRONG 4 times

Tennessee:
Alexander (R-TN) Voted RIGHT 6 times & WRONG 3 times
Frist (R-TN) Voted RIGHT 7 times and WRONG 2 times (wants to be a GOP nominee for President)

Tougher to Snag

Louisiana:
Landrieu (D-LA) Voted RIGHT only 3 times & WRONG 6 times (sensitive to hurricane issues)

Orgegon:
Smith (R-OR) Voted RIGHT 5 times & WRONG 4 times
Wyden (D-OR) Voted RIGHT 4 times & WRONG 5 times


WEAK BUT BROKE WITH THE OPEN BORDERS MAJORITY .... These 5 Voted RIGHT on 5 amendments and WRONG on 4 (did not vote for Vitter or Isakson)


These will be tough to get. But if we don't get a couple of these, it is doubtful we can get the 41 votes. Without these, we would have to get NO votes out of all but one in the pools above. That is probably too much to hope for.

The Senators in this pool voted against us on the two toughest amendments (Vitter and Isakson) and two other times. Still, they distinguished themselves from the open-borders Senators who overwhelmingly opposed any trimming of this massive expansion of immigration.

Maine:
Collins (R-ME)
Snowe (R-ME)

Minnesota:
Coleman (R-MN)

Mississippi:
***Cochran (R-MS) He missed 3 votes because of a funeral. He voted wrong on Kyl & Vitter, the 2 tough ones for which he was present. He voted right on Cornyn, Kennedy, Sessions and Ensign. Every indication is that he is as soft as the others on this list.

New Hampshire:
***Gregg (R- NH) Voted right 5 times. Voted wrong on Vitter, Bingaman and Dorgan. Skipped Isakson vote.


OUGHT TO BE A LOT BETTER IN THESE STATES .... 11 show a bit of openness to our side and are from states that should be getting a very different kind of Senator


Thus far, these are thumbing their noses at their constituents in their voting. But if the people of their state rise up in massive protest Monday and Tuesday over last week's voting, it is not inconceivable that any one of these could end up voting NO on cloture.

There is no solid reason why any of these Senators should be voting for a massive amnesty and doubling of importation of permanent foreign workers.

Alaska:
Murkowski (R-AK) -- 3 Right votes
Stevens (R-AK) -- 2 Right votes

Arkansas
Lincoln (D-AR) -- 2 Right
Prior (D-AR) -- 2 Right

Florida
Nelson (D-FL) -- 2 Right (in competitive re-election race)

Minnesota
Dayton (D-MN) -- 4 Right (retiring with better than most Grade Card)

Montana
Baucus (D-MT) -- 3 Right (one of best Democratic Grade Cards)

Ohio
Voinovich (R-OH) -- 3 Right

South Dakota
Johnson (D-SD) -- 2 Right (Democratic Minority Leader Dashle lost his seat here last election for supporting amnesties)

Virginia
Warner (R-VA) -- 4 Right (He is an aristocrat who cares little for what constituents think. But he's voted almost half the time with us.)

West Virginia
******Rockefeller (D-WV) He's missed all votes because of back operation. But he has one of the best Democratic Grade Cards and ought to be more like his Democratic colleague in the state, Sen. Byrd. If Rockefeller does NOT vote on final cloture, it will be the same as a NO vote.


IMPOSSIBLE? .... 11 Senators part of the McCain/Kennedy open-borders cabal


The Republicans in this groups have essentially promised that they will vote only the way that Sen. McCain (R-AZ) votes.

And the Democrats are taking their vote cues from Sen. Kennedy (D-MA).

These 11 are the Open Borders Cabal that has managed thus far to get the entire Senate to do its bidding.

McCain voted right only once -- on the Sessions fence. Here are his Republican minions that voted in lockstep with him:

Arizona
McCain (R-AZ)
Indiana
Lugar (R-IN)
Kansas
Brownback (R-KS)
Nebraska
Hagel (R-NE)
Ohio
DeWine (R-OH)
Pennsylvania
Specter (R-PA)
Rhode Island
Chafee (R-RI)
South Carolina
Graham (R-SC)

Kennedy never voted right. Here are his Democratic minions:

Connecticut
Lieberman (D-CT)
Massachusetts
Kennedy (D-MA)
Kerry (D-MA)


BARELY A SIGN OF BELIEF IN BORDERS & AMERICAN WORKERS .... These 22 Senators voted RIGHT only 1 or 2 times; they show little promise this time around


If you live in their states, please continue to hammer them. You never know when in the future your pressure may finally break through in some way.

But these are Senators who have sent nearly every signal that they do not believe it likely that massive new flows of foreign workers could hurt any Americans.

Colorado
Salazar (D-CO) -- Right 1 time (Sessions fence)
Connecticut
Dodd (D-CT) -- Right 2 times
Delaware
Biden (D-DE) -- Right 2 times
Carper (D-DE) -- Right 2 times
Florida
Martinez (R-FL) -- Right 2 times
Hawaii
Akaka (D-HI) -- Right 1 time (Bingaman cap)
Inouye (D-HI) -- Right 2 times
Illinois
Durbin (D-IL) -- Right 2 times
Obama (D-IL) -- Right 2 times
Maryland
Mikulski (D-MD) -- Right 2 times
Sarbanes (D-MD) -- Right 2 times
Nevada
Reid (D-NV) -- Right 2 times
New Jersey
Lautenberg (D-NJ) -- Right 1 time (Bingaman cap)
Menendez (D-NJ) -- Right 1 time (Bingaman cap)
New Mexico
Bingaman (D-NM) -- Right 1 time (Bingaman cap)
Rhode Island
Reed (D-RI) -- Right 2 times
Vermont
Jeffords (I-VT) -- Right 1 time (Bingaman cap)
Leahy (D-VT) -- Right 2 times
Washington
Cantwell (D-WA) -- Right 1 time (Bingaman cap)
Murray (D-WA) -- Right 1 time (Bingaman cap)
Wisconsin
Feingold (D-WI) -- Right 1 time (Bingaman cap)
Kohl (D-WI) -- Right 2 times


A REMOTE POSSIBILITY .... These 8 Senators don't present enough hope to be listed in the Pools of possibilities up above, but they show a spark of interest in protecting Americans from the floods of foreign workers. They voted RIGHT 3 times.


If you are in their states, do all you can to help them feel that voting NO on S. 2611 is the right thing to do politically -- even if they can't understand why it is the right thing to do for your state.

California
Boxer (D-CA)
Feinstein (D-CA)
Idaho
Craig (R-ID)
Indiana
Bayh (D-IN)
Iowa
Harkin (D-IA)
Michigan
Levin (D-MI)
New York
Clinton (D-NY)
Schumer (D-NY)

Please make as much difference today as you can.

THANK YOU FOR IMMEDIATE ATTENTION TO THIS,

-- ROY