Thread: Online Petition to oppose House Bill 1183

Friends in the fight against illegal immigration:

I have created an online petition to fight against HB1183. Please take a moment to go sign it. http://www.petitiononline.com/amt1985/petition.html

I will be personally delivering copies to the legislators in Raleigh so it is imperative that we get as many signatures ASAP. While we are focusing on NC residents, we will accept signatures from everywhere.

Please consider forwarding the web address to your entire email list.

Thank you for your consideration of this request.

Alan

Originally Posted by alanteitleman

Friends in the fight against illegal immigration:

I have created an online petition to fight against HB1183. Please take a moment to go sign it. http://www.petitiononline.com/amt1985/petition.html

I will be personally delivering copies to the legislators in Raleigh so it is imperative that we get as many signatures ASAP. While we are focusing on NC residents, we will accept signatures from everywhere.

Please consider forwarding the web address to your entire email list.

Thank you for your consideration of this request.

Alan

What if your not a NC resident? I use to be, but not anymore.

Signed and also emailed my local rep again.

dman1200

you can:
"While we are focusing on NC residents, we will accept signatures from everywhere."

Alan, thanks for the great petition!! signed and forwarded to others.

All signed up!
If I had a child who wanted to attend college in NC, I would damn sure be insulted if an illegal was paying less in tuition.

It looks like everyones questions have already been answered.

I dont want to have a majority come from out of state, but if you are looking at ALIPAC, please sign on the pretend dotted line!

I forwarded the following email (taken off the petition website) to my entire address book. Please consider doing that as well!



House Bill 1183 is a bill currently being considered in the North Carolina House of Representatives which would allow illegal immigrants to attend public North Carolina universities at In-State Tuition rates. --- On April 11th, 2005, a cleverly disguised bill was filed in the North Carolina House of Representatives. The "Access to Higher Education and a Better Economic Future" bill is a thinly masquereded piece of legislation that allows illegal immigrants access to North Carolina Universities at In-State tuition rates. At the time, the bill with 4 sponsors and 32 co-sponsors was being lauded as a pro-economic/education bill. Our country has a responsibility to the citizens of this country, not illegal immigrants. The 16-school UNC system already turns away thousands of qualified, LEGAL students each and every year due to space restraints. Allowing additional seats in an already limited system to be handed out to non-legal students is ludicrous and a complete slap in the face of all taxpaying North Carolina citizens. Our public universities are the pride and joy of many a citizen. However, each year the costs of education go up, class sizes increase and the amount of courses offered go down. How can we justify putting this additional burden on our already overcrowded colleges? The amount of pressure resulting from thousands of outraged citizens has resulted in ten legislators removing their name from the bill.

HB1183 update (A bill to grant instate tuition rates for illegal immigrants):

I am sure that you are tired of hearing about House Bill 1183 by now. It seems as if we have been fighting it for years when it hasn't even been a month. I would like to direct your attention to: http://www.petitiononline.com/amt1985/petition.html . That is the location of a brand new petition opposing HB1183. Please sign it and forward this message to your entire address book. It is imperative that we get as many signatures on this petition ASAP. I will personally be delivering copies to the legislators that are supportive of HB1183 and those who are undecided (I'll be emailing copies to those who already oppose this legislation...cheap, I know

Once again the link is http://www.petitiononline.com/amt1985/petition.html . Please, do not let this email stop with you. Forward it to everyone you know, especially if they are in North Carolina.

Thank you all for your support.

Alan M. Teitleman

Great Work Alan!!

I've done it...let us know when you have MORE GREAT IDEAS!!!

Originally Posted by Judy

Great Work Alan!!

I've done it...let us know when you have MORE GREAT IDEAS!!!

Thank you kindly, ma'am!

For a petition that I started just after midnight today, we've already got 120+ petition signers. Thank you everyone for your help in getting the word out about this!

I actually did press release on the petition. It went out around 4 AM.

Here are the statistics thusfar:
Online Petition Created to Oppose North Carolina House Bill 1183- A Bill that Will Grant Instate Tuition Rates to Illegal Immigrants

BASIC STATISTICS

Statistic Count Description
Reads 14,220 This number tells you how many times your press release was accessed from our site and other distribution points where we have the ability to measure a click through. This number does not include the number of journalists that have received your release through email. In addition there are online distribution points that we currently have no ability to track.
Estimated Pickup 127 This number estimates the number of times your press release was picked up by a media outlet. This does not tell you how many times your story appears in the media. It simply attempts to estimate media interest of your release.

It was also included in the Google news index feature (had to spend a few dollars, but it was well worth it)...

If you do a Google News search for Illegal Immigration petition, NC House bill 1183, or a hundred other variations, sorted by time it will come up.

Thanks everyone for signing the petition!

We're over 200 signatures.

Please keep them coming!