Thread: 1 Million Pro Amnesty Letters: FRAUD! The boxes are EMPTY!

THEY MUST BE SO EMBARASSED RIGHT NOW. BUT I AM NOT SUPRISED. YOU CANT TRUST THEM ON ANYTHING. NOT EVEN WHAT IS SITTING RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOUR FACE.

Originally Posted by htxpert

John & Ken (KFI AM 640) just reported that the boxes stacked were empty! The report indicated that a reliable source said that when he looked in the handle hole of the boxes they had nothing in them. These were the boxes stacked behind Sen Kennedy.

I was listing to them and I'm still rolling around on the floor laughing. I agree with John and Ken those reports were like sheep no one asked to see the letters. They were nothing but a bunch of yes men and women. Yes Mr. Kennedy. Wow Mr Kennedy. Oh yeah Mr Kennedy we believe everything you say Mr. Kennedy. Oh it's two million letters Mr. Kennedy? We know your lying Mr Kennedy but that's not a problem Mr. Kennedy, we believe every word you say. WHATEVER.

Fabrication it's NOTHING but pure fabrication. They want us to think they are winning this fight by spewing lies of this bills "support." They want to believe they can get into the ring with us. Well they CAN'T. These Sell Out Senators must think that every morning the American People fall out of a great big redwood tree square on their heads. Well we DON'T. It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog and they have just run into pack of wolves that eat Senators for lunch.

Oh Boy I can't wait to call Kennedy's office tomorrow and say .... "Got 'ya!"

Here is the Roll Call report:

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From "'Heard on the Hill" in Roll Call: June 18, 2007

Empty Promises. They don't call it political theater for nothing. Staging a good press conference often requires a script and some props.

At a pro-immigration rally Thursday, a group of politicians including Sens. Mel Martinez (R-Fla.), Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) and Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and Rep. Joe Baca (D-Calif.) addressed reporters while picturesquely standing in front of an impressive tower of boxes they said contained letters from a million supporters of comprehensive immigration reform.

The letters were supposedly generated from a campaign by Univision radio personality Eddie "Piol’n" Sotelo.

As the Members repeatedly referred to the letters and gestured toward the boxes allegedly containing them as evidence of the support for the immigration bill that is struggling in the Senate, a crack Roll Call photographer on hand at the event began to grow suspicious. He could see light shining through the handles of the boxes, indicating that they weren't full.

Sure enough, a quick check revealed that the boxes were, indeed, completely empty.

Carlos Sanchez, spokesman for the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, which helped coordinate the event, said that actually bringing the 310 boxes full of the real, dead-tree letters that Sotelo collected would have presented a security headache in a box-spooked world. "We didn't want to put Capitol Police through the stress of having hundreds of boxes out there," he said of the event's Russell Park location.

Turns out, figuring out what the heck to do with the boxes is tougher than you'd think. Sotelo traveled with them in an 18-wheeler across the country to deliver them, but they couldn't just be dumped at the Capitol. Now, nonprofit groups are divvying them up and will spend the next weeks sorting them by Congressional district for delivery to the proper Hill offices, Sanchez said.

HOH is shocked - shocked - to learn that in politics, as in theater, all is not as it seems.

Look at this!!!!!! Mel is really strong to be able to lift that with one hand


Stronger than a bowl of Menudo, able to leap empty amnesty boxes in a single bound… Look, look Its Captain amnesty

FYI
I have nothing against folks that like Menudo

I agree we cant be fooled by such tactics, but unfortunately El Presidente Boosh, and the rest of the Shamnesty group will use these photos as proof that many want the bill passed.
It doesn't matter to them if they were full or not, all they needed was to get the photo and the coverage out there and will continue to use this as proof that the country wants immigration reform!

All they have to do is plant the seed!

Originally Posted by Populist

Here is the Roll Call report:

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From "'Heard on the Hill" in Roll Call: June 18, 2007

Empty Promises. They don't call it political theater for nothing. Staging a good press conference often requires a script and some props.

At a pro-immigration rally Thursday, a group of politicians including Sens. Mel Martinez (R-Fla.), Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) and Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and Rep. Joe Baca (D-Calif.) addressed reporters while picturesquely standing in front of an impressive tower of boxes they said contained letters from a million supporters of comprehensive immigration reform.

The letters were supposedly generated from a campaign by Univision radio personality Eddie "Piol’n" Sotelo.

As the Members repeatedly referred to the letters and gestured toward the boxes allegedly containing them as evidence of the support for the immigration bill that is struggling in the Senate, a crack Roll Call photographer on hand at the event began to grow suspicious. He could see light shining through the handles of the boxes, indicating that they weren't full.

Sure enough, a quick check revealed that the boxes were, indeed, completely empty.

Carlos Sanchez, spokesman for the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, which helped coordinate the event, said that actually bringing the 310 boxes full of the real, dead-tree letters that Sotelo collected would have presented a security headache in a box-spooked world. "We didn't want to put Capitol Police through the stress of having hundreds of boxes out there," he said of the event's Russell Park location.

Turns out, figuring out what the heck to do with the boxes is tougher than you'd think. Sotelo traveled with them in an 18-wheeler across the country to deliver them, but they couldn't just be dumped at the Capitol. Now, nonprofit groups are divvying them up and will spend the next weeks sorting them by Congressional district for delivery to the proper Hill offices, Sanchez said.

HOH is shocked - shocked - to learn that in politics, as in theater, all is not as it seems.

Need a link to this Roll Call report please

By the way, what day did that DJ leave on this supposed letter campaign? Sure did seem like he got a million pretty quick! What dates of deployment?

W

Dixie, the link you provided for this story is now a blank page.

http://www.rollcall.com/issues/52_141/hoh/18992-1.html

Empty Promises
By Emily Heil
Roll Call Staff
June 18, 2007

I'm not a subscriber.'

Dixie

Yeah, this is in the same vein as Dianne Feinstein's charge that she was getting all sorts of racist phone calls...........okay, show us.

Let's see the million letters, all individually written I am sure.

Let's hear the racist voicemail messages.

I'd like to see how many of those so-called million letters are writtin in Spanish. Letters from illegal immigrants should carry zero weight in this debate! Supposedly there are over 3 million illegal immigrants currently residing in California.