The Southern Republican Leadership Conference (SRLC) continues to exclude Cong. Tom Tancredo (R-Colo.) from its meeting. It is estimated that two thousand (2,000) to five thousand (5,000) people from twenty -six (26) states will gather in Memphis, Tennessee, from March 9-12, 2006, for the conference. The Midwest Republican Conference will join the meeting.

Here is a link to a webpage on the SRLC's website that lists the invited speakers: http://www.srlc.org/guestspeakers.html. Here is a link to a webpage on the SRLC's website that contains the names of sixteen "potential presidential candidates" that have been invited to speak to the SRLC: http://www.srlc.org/113005.html. The list, of course, does not include Cong. Tancredo. It does include ex-Mayor Guiliani, Gov. George Pataki and Sen. John McCain, who along with Sen. Ted Kennedy has introduced legislation in the United States Senate that will grant amnesty to millions of illegal alien.

Many people have taken time from their busy lives and contacted Tennessee GOP chairman Bob Davis (who is also chairman of the conference) and/or Memphis attorney and RNC committeman John Ryder (listed as a contact person on the SRLC website) . Those e-mails, telephone calls and faxes have helped. However, it has been learned from a reliable source that Sen. Bill Frist and his allies are the ones behind the exclusion of Cong. Tancredo from the conference. There is no doubt that Mr. Davis and Mr. Ryder are taking orders from Sen. Frist on this issue. Sen. Frist represents Tennessee in the United States Senate and this conference is being held in Tennessee. He needs to hear from supporters of Cong. Tancredo. Whether you are a Republican, Democrat or Independent, it doesn't matter. Sen. Frist needs to hear from anyone that supports Cong. Tancredo.

Please call Sen. Frist's office toll-free at 1-888-355-3588 and request that Sen. Frist stop blocking an invitation for Cong. Tancredo to speak to the SRLC. His office will, of course, deny that Sen. Frist has anything to do with the exclusion of Cong. Tancredo. Please call both before and after the Christmas holiday. If you are from Tennessee, please mention it to Sen. Frist's office. Within the right hand side of Sen. First's home page
( http://frist.senate.gov/ ) is a paragraph that begins "PLEASE NOTE". Within that paragraph is a link to a form that allows one to contact Sen. Frist via e-mail.

Here are other ways to contact Sen. Frist:

202-224-3344 SH-509 Washington, DC 20510
423-323-1252 10368 Wallace Alley Street - Suite 7 Kingsport, TN 37663
865-602-7977 800 Market Street Knoxville, TN 37919
901-683-1910 5100 Poplar Avenue - Suite 514 Memphis, TN 38137
423-756-2757 735 Broad Street, Suite 701 Chattanooga, TN 37402
615-352-9411 28 White Bridge Road - Suite 211 Nashville, TN 37205
731-424-9655 200 East Main St. Jackson, TN 38301