Thread: Numbers Alert 09/25/09

From: Roy Beck, President, NumbersUSA
Date: Thursday 24SEP09 7:30 p.m. EDT

*******Need phone calls on Thursday night and first thing Friday morning on Senate health committee votes**********

GOOD EVENING, FRIENDS,

The National Council of La Raza at this very minute is mobilizing across the country to fill Senate Finance Committee voice mail boxes with messages to OPPOSE verification to keep illegal aliens out of a federal health plan.

The committee is supposed to vote Friday.

Will you take a minute and help us make sure that the majority of messages SUPPORT verification?

Don't let La Raza's voice be the main voice these Senators hear.

If you are reading this Thursday evening, please make a phone call and leave a message on the answering machine of your U.S. Senator who is on the Finance Committee.

If you are reading this Friday morning, please immediately call your Senator's office and talk to the staff.

Call 202-224-3121 . . .

. . . and ask for your Senator.

Scroll down to see the Senators we are targeting.

You can get the personal phone numbers of your Senator by clicking on www.NumbersUSA.com/myMembers

YOUR MESSAGE ON THE PHONE:

"Please tell the Senator that the people of our state want strict verification procedures to keep illegal aliens from being part of any federal health plan.

"Carry out the President's promise for verification."

EXCERPT FROM LA RAZA'S ALERT TONIGHT:

"Tomorrow, the Senate Finance Committee will vote on important amendments that could make or break your ability to access affordable, quality health care. We need them to hear your voice NOW!

"This is a critical time for the Latino community to take action. That is why we and our partners at the National Hispanic Leadership Agenda (NHLA), are joining together to flood the voice mailboxes of members of the Senate Finance Committee tonight with messages from the Latino community. Together we can demand that health care reform not leave us behind!"

Already this week, Rep. Waxman (D-Calif.), chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee in the House, ruled out of order an amendment to require verification in the health plan.

We can't let that happen in the Senate. Pres. Obama -- under intense pressure -- has promised verification. Finance Committee Chairman Baucus (D-Mont.) has promised verification.

Make sure we get it.

SENATORS ON THE FINANCE COMMITTEE
WHO NEED TO HEAR FROM YOU

ARKANSAS -- Sen. Lincoln (D)
DELAWARE -- Sen. Carper (D)
FLORIDA -- Sen. Nelson (D)

MASSACHUSETTS -- Sen. Kerry (D)
MAINE -- Sen. Snowe (R)
MICHIGAN -- Sen. Stabenow (D)

MONTANA -- Sen. Baucus (D), chairman (thank him and reinforce his position)

NEW JERSEY -- Sen. Menendez (D)
NEW MEXICO -- Sen. Bingaman (D)
NEW YORK -- Sen. Schumer (D)

NORTH DAKOTA -- Sen.Conrad (D)
OREGON -- Sen. Wyden (D)
TEXAS -- Sen. Cornyn (R)

UTAH -- Sen. Hatch (R)
WASHINGTON -- Sen. Cantwell (D)
WEST VIRGINIA -- Sen. Rockefeller (D)

Good luck. Let's show our strength.


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Thank you for posting for everyone - will do.

update: No prob. getting thru to Sens. Cornyn or Hutchison's Dallas ofcs.
In constrast to past, each said the Senator "would be delighted" to hear my comment & they would "pass it right along to them"!

I first thanked each Senator and all Republicans for efforts in opposing Democrats' massive health bill. Remember the Republicans are the embattled party now: they need the support of their constituents to oppose this bill either as a whole or piece by piece. I think polite, brief. well-thoughtout comments -- not only on exclusion of illegal aliens--but opposing other provisions of Baucus's proposed health care reform bill (or the entire bill itself) are very welcome at Republican Senator's offices right now.