From: Roy Beck, President, NumbersUSA
Date: Wednesday 27JUN07 3:30 p.m. EDT


Your specialty phone calls this aft and Thurs. morn can still make a difference

DEAR OPPONENTS OF THE SENATE AMNESTY BILL,

We're still five votes short of winning in tomorrow's cloture vote -- but we are close on turning around a dozen more votes our way. Right now, it is possible that we won't get a one of them. So, the outcome is totally up in the air. You the voters of these Senators' states will make the difference.


AN APPEAL TO THOSE OF YOU WITH SPECIAL TIES TO A SENATOR


1. Are you part of the elites or establishment in your community?

2. Have you given any donations to either of your Senators' campaigns in the past?

3. Do you have any kind of relationship with the Senators, members of their staff, local leaders of his/her political party, or somebody who does?

Although most of us are part of the broad public (that tends to be overlooked by Senators), I know that out of 437,000 activist NumbersUSA members, some of you in every state have some special connections.

For those of you who do, I appeal with greatest urgency for you to use every means at your disposal to call your Senator or staff person or political party leader -- this afternoon, tonight, tomorrow morning.

We are already hearing from a number of you with these kinds of connections who are making contact. And the effect is powerful.

You cannot overestimate the power of your calling and saying, "I've been a friend for years .... " or "I'm a financial supporter" or something of that kind and then talk about your great concern for the political future of this Senator, as well as for your state, if S. 1639 goes through.

If you call staff or party leaders, there is a high degree of probability that your message will get through to the Senator before the vote -- if you have some personal connections to talk about and trade on.

One of you called me this morning and talked about having a one-on-one phone call with a Senator who voted YES yesterday on the amnesty cloture. That Senator seemed gravely troubled to hear the deep opposition to the bill from somebody who was a real supporter of his.

A number of old Washington pundits have commented lately -- and I heard this at an anti-amnesty strategy meeting on the Hill at breakfast this morning -- that when the Establishment all lines up for something, it always wins.

That generally is true. But we are on the verge of something unprecedented, if we can win tomorrow. What will make a real difference if these Senators can see that not all the Establishment is lined up on the other side. For all their arrogance, most Senators tend to give Establishment figures in their state as much weight as the ones in New York, California and Washington who run the national scene.


TAKE YOUR ACTIONS


ACTION 1: Phone Your Senators

Senate Switchboard: 202-224-3121

All phone numbers and addresses for your state's two Senators:
www.NumbersUSA.com/myMembers

All DC and local phone numbers for all Senators:
http://www.numbersusa.com/congressinfo/

2. ACTION 2: Fax Your Senators



IF YOU DON'T HAVE SPECIAL CONNECTIONS BUT WANT TO MAKE A SPECIAL PHONE CALL


Our lobbying team is going from office to office all day and then swinging back around to catch changes as they happen. What they are hearing over and over in some of these offices is that their bosses wouldn't mind finding a way out of this mess and vote NO to get their constituents off their back.

Here is what I want you to consider and then start making phone calls to DC and locally ...

If you have been a supporter of a Senator and sincerely like the Senator on other issues, call and say that. Speak in a concerned tone -- not an angry tone. Talk about how while you disagree with the Senator's thought that this bill deserved a chance for debate on the floor, you can understand that to be an arguable position.

But note that the process today is not a debate and is not an amendments process. Instead, amendments are routinely being tabled before any real debate. It is clear that this is a closed process.

Tell the staffers that the Senator has every option now of telling powerful supporters of the bill that the process was just too flawed to move forward and that the voters are overwhelmingly against it.


MOST IMPORTANT REPUBLICAN SWING SENATORS TO CALL



We don't appear to have promises from any of the following Senators, yet.

They are the ones who voted NO and helped kill the Kennedy/Bush amnesty early this month but who voted YES on cloture yesterday to allow this bill back on the floor.

Some of these may look impossible, but our lobbyists say every one of these could turn back to NO tomorrow (after all, they voted NO earlier this month).

Alaska: Sen. Ted Stevens, Sen. Lisa Murkowski
If you live in the Pacific Northwest, you may want to help the rather small contingent of NumbersUSA activist in this state.

Arizona: Sen. Jon Kyl
Idaho: Sen. Larry Craig
Kentucky: Sen. Mitch McConnell

Maine: Sen. Susan Collins, Sen. Olympia Snowe
Minnesota: Sen. Norm Coleman
Mississippi: Sen. Trent Lott

Missouri: Sen. Kit Bond
New Hampshire: Sen. Judd Gregg
Nevada: Sen. John Ensign

North Carolina: Sen. Richard Burr
Utah: Sen. Bob Bennett
Virginia: Sen. John Warner


MOST IMPORTANT DEMOCRATIC SWING SENATORS TO CALL



Voted NO earlier this month but YES on cloture yesterday.

Arkansas
Sen. Pryor, Mark (DEM)
217 Russell Office Building,
Washington, DC 20510
(202-224-2353)

500 President Clinton Avenue,
Little Rock, AR 72201
(501-324-6336)

California
Sen. Boxer, Barbara (DEM)
SH-112,
Washington, DC 20510
(202-224-3553)

600 B Street - Suite 2240,
San Diego, CA 92101
(619-239-3884)

1130 O Street,
Fresno, CA 93721
(559-497-5109)

1700 Montgomery Street - Suite 240,
San Francisco, CA 94111
(415-403-0100)

201 North E Street - Suite 210,
San Bernardino, CA 92401
(909-888-8525)

501 I Street,
Sacramento, CA 95814
(916-448-2787)

312 North Spring Street - Suite 1748,
Los Angeles, CA 90012
(213-894-5000)

New Mexico
Sen. Bingaman, Jeff (DEM)
SH-703,
Washington, DC 20510
(202-224-5521)

118 Bridge Street - Suite 3,
Las Vegas, NM 87701
(505-454-8824)

Loretto Town Centre,
Las Cruces, NM 88001
(505-523-6561)

105 West Third Street - Suite 409,
Roswell, NM 88201
(505-622-7113)

625 Silver Avenue SW. - Suite 130,
Albuquerque, NM 87102
(505-346-6601)

119 East Marcy - Suite 101,
Santa Fe, NM 87501
(505-988-6647)

Virginia
Sen. Webb, James (DEM)
Russell Senate Office Bldg.,
Washington, DC 20510
(202-224-4024)

222 Central Park Ave.,
Virginia Beach, VA 23462
(757-518-1674)

3140 Chaparral Drive,
Roanoke, VA 24018
(540-772-4236)

507 East Franklin Street,
Richmond, VA 23219
(804-771-2221)


THE GOOD ONES -- MOST NEED YOUR ENCOURAGEMENT TO RESIST SPECIAL INTEREST AND WHITE HOUSE LAST-MINUTE LOBBYING


These Senators voted NO against the amnesty cloture yesterday.

Keep thanking them and reminding them why this bill must die.

SENATE DEMOCRATS
Baucus,Max (MT)
Bayh,Evan (IN)
Byrd,Robert (WV)

Dorgan,Byron (ND)
Landrieu,Mary (LA)
McCaskill,Claire (MO)

Rockefeller,John (WV)
Stabenow,Debbie (MI)
Tester,Jon (MT)
Sanders,Bernie (VT) -- Independent

SENATE REPUBLICANS
Alexander,Lamar (TN)
Allard,Wayne (CO)
Bunning,Jim (KY)

Chambliss,Saxby (GA)
Coburn,Tom (OK)
Cochran,Thad (MS)

Corker,Bob (TN)
Cornyn,John (TX)
Crapo,Michael (ID)

DeMint,James (SC)
Dole,Elizabeth (NC)
Enzi,Michael (WY)

Grassley,Charles (IA)
Hatch,Orrin (UT)
Hutchison,Kay Bailey (TX)

Inhofe,James (OK)
Isakson,Johnny (GA)
Roberts,Pat (KS)

Sessions,Jeff (AL)
Shelby,Richard (AL)
Smith,Gordon (OR)

Sununu,John (NH)
Thune,John (SD)
Vitter,David (LA)


MORE BACKGROUND


Thanks to all of you who have already responded to our nearly two dozen separate fax and phone action alerts that we've sent out in various groupings since the Senate voted yesterday to reconsider the Kennedy/Bush amnesty bill (S. 1639).

Check out your customized Action Buffet corkboard to be sure you have done all you can do to influence the Thursday vote.

I hope you have been consulting our home page at www.NumbersUSA.com throughout the day and evening as our legislative team has kept you informed of every step as it has happened.


MEANINGLESSNESS OF THE AMENDMENT VOTES


On our Senate Vote Day Page on the website, you will not see our customary listing of NumbersUSA positions on the amendments. Rosemary sent out a statement to all Senate offices yesterday explaining our position:

Because the amendment process is a sham and because no
amendment could improve S. 1639 enough to make it worth
supporting (even if the amendment could survive a rigged
conference), neither NumbersUSA nor Americans for Better
Immigration will be taking a position on any amendment or
scoring the vote on any mendment. Thus, your votes on
amendments will not be able to make up for a “yeaâ€