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!