Thread: PHONE CALL CHALLENGE! EVERYONE READ, EVEN NEW PEOPLE!

Let's take a minute and make just one phone call from this list...all it will take is a minute....EVERYONE get involved, and that means YOU reading this!! After you make your phone call...reply with a message on who you called and if you have anything to report! Come on y'all! Pick up that phone! If I can do it with 4 rambunctious children running around, so can you!
Here's your hit list:
(Names marked with an * are up for re-election in 2008.)

PAY SPECIAL ATTENTION TO SENATOR LAMAR ALEXANDER- TN
Voice: (202) 224-4944
Fax: (202) 228-3398

Bennett (R-UT)
* Cochran (R-MS)
* Coleman (R-MN)
* Collins (R-ME)
* Craig (R-ID)
* Domenici (R-NM)
Gregg (R-NH)
Hatch (R-UT)
Hutchison (R-TX)
Kyl (R-AZ)
Lott (R-MS)
* McConnell (R-KY)
Murkowski (R-AK)
* Smith (R-OR)
Snowe (R-ME)
Stevens (R-AK)
* Warner (R-VA)

In addition, Sen. Brownback (R-Kan.) didn't cast a vote last week but he was a strong YES voter for amnesty last year.

Click here for their phone number! http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_i ... rs_cfm.cfm

Right now there's over 1100 guests signed in and 90 members...if everyone calls someone, that's alot of calls for the moment...pick up that phone!

I have 45 minutes, and then my phone call campaing begins. It begins with everyone on this list!

post results ASAP!

I picked Senator McKowski...the staffer was very friendly and said he'd pass the message along.

For those of you not calling, if I can call, you certainly can. I am not comfortable calling people I don't know, especially in a political manner. I hate calling, but I did it so step up and do it too!

I called Saxby Chambliss yesterday. I got a staffer but I was polite and I very clearly laid out my opposition to the reform bill. I reminded the staffer that I am a constituent of the senators and that this is a voting issue for me.

I will call Johnny Isakson today and do the same thing. Then I will pick one of the senators from the list. I am leaning towards Hatch since I grewup in Wyoming and that's a neighbor to Utah.

From numbersusa:

We have every reason to believe that the right voices and the right information can still pull a number of the Senators back from supporting S. 1348.

TIP NO. 1: Tell them that the grand compromise of S. 1348 makes Senators accept a huge amnesty in exchange for a promise to end future illegal immigration. But the bill's actual provisions make no promises of lower illegal immigration and set no numerical reduction goals at all.

While most phone calls to Senators recently have stressed the caller's hatred of amnesty, it might be a good idea today to focus on whether the trade-off for the amnesty can work.

There are a number of good reasons to think that many of the Flippin' Fifteen truly believe that, as much as they regret accepting an amnesty, it can be justified because illegal immigration will finally be brought under control.

You need to find every opportunity to tell staffers, Senators and anybody else that the bill is unworkable in fighting illegal immigration. Look at Rosemary Jenks' short summary of the details of S. 1348. (Scroll down to BACKGROUND INFORMATION.)

TIP NO. 2: "Show me the results, not just the money."

Pres. Bush and the chief architects of this giant amnesty for 12-20 million illegal aliens have just now persuaded more than a dozen Republicans to change their votes in part because the President is promising a big increase in spending on enforcement.

But we've seen huge amounts of money spent on enforcement in the past with little result.

Let staffers know that the only thing that counts with you is proof of substantial reductions in future illegal immigration. Even if somebody thinks it a good idea to reward millions of illegal aliens with the right to work and live here, surely it makes sense to withhold any legalization until funding and enforcement efforts have actually resulted in substantial reductions of the illegal population?

TIP NO. 3: Talk facts and details.

Staffers are listening for any details about the bill that show you know what you are talking about. Some of these fence-straddling Senators have been expressing amazement about all the details many voters in their states know about S. 1348.

When Pres. Bush came to their lunch Tuesday, people in the room said his body language and facial expressions showed genuine surprise at the number of Senators who told him that it isn't just the "immigration crazies" who are objecting to the bill. Rather, they said, regular middle class people are expressing their distrust and backing it up with real details from the bill.

TIP NO. 4: Speak calmly.

Staffers' ear drums are ringing from a month of outrage shouted at them through the phones. They're tuning it out now. What gets their attention is a conversational tone from a constituent who sincerely shares a concern. Passion can be expressed calmly. (Always try to think of these staffers as perhaps slightly inexperienced nieces and nephews who could use a litle kindness.)

TIP NO. 5: All "touch back" provisions that require the illegal aliens to leave the country briefly are meaningless to voters concerned about amnesty.

Pro-amnesty leaders use the touch-back provisions to try to fool voters into thinking that the illegal aliens would be allowed to live here permanently in a process no different from anybody else.

In fact, though, the illegal aliens would just be doing the hokey pokey ("put your right foot out / put your right foot in / put your fight foot out / and then you can pretend"). The permanent residence they would be given would be possible only because they broke the law in the first place.

But most importantly, these touch-back provisions so dear to Sen. Hutchinson (R-Texas) have nothing to do with slowing down illegal immigration in the future.

TIP NO. 6: Note to them that Ted Kennedy has already pushed SEVEN amnesties into law. None was followed by a reduction in illegal immigration. Why should anybody believe this one will be?

1. In 1986, Ted Kennedy's blanket amnesty for 2.7 million illegal aliens promised a lot more enforcement but did not set any requirments for actual reductions in illegal immigration. The illegal flow continued.
2. In 1994, Ted Kennedy's Section 245(i) Amnesty gave legal residence and jobs to 578,000 illegal aliens. It was a temporary rolling amnesty primarily for extended family members of immigrants who instead of waiting in line, come on to the country illegally. The illegal flow continued.
3. In 1997, Ted Kennedy's extension of the Section 245(i) rolling amnesty was followed by an increasing flow of illegal immigration.
4. In 1997, Ted Kennedy also won an amnesty for close to one million illegal aliens from Central America. Illegal immigration sped up some more.
5. In 1998, Ted Kennedy won an amnesty for 125,000 illegal aliens from Haiti. The illegal flow continued.
6. In 2000, Ted Kennedy got the so-called Late Amnesty, legalizing another 400,000 illegal aliens who claimed that they missed out on Kennedy's 1986 amnesty. Illegal immigration continued unimpeded.
7. In 2000, Ted Kennedy also won the LIFE Act Amnesty for an estimated 900,000 illegal aliens. It was another reinstatement of the rolling Section 245(i) amnesty., an estimated 900,000 illegal aliens. Illegal immigration accelerated.

Now, Ted Kennedy is saying that this amnesty is necessary if we are ever to stop the flow of illegal aliens. Why would any of these Senators believe him when he says this amnesty bill will end illegal immigration with a track record like his?

http://www.alipac.us/modules.php?name=F ... ic&t=68656

I've called most on that list today, and will call again & other senators.

ALSO, please add Sen. Alexander (R-TN) to the list, as he is also key and it appears at this time he could go either way.

NOTE -- I JUST HEARD GWB ON THE RADIO SPEAKING TO AN ETHNIC SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP PLEADING FOR SENATORS TO PASS HIS AMNESTY BILL FOR "JOBS AMERICANS ARE NOT DOING."

PLEASE CALL CALL CALL, E-MAIL, FAX ETC. TO REBUT BUSH'S LIES AND SPIN!!

Capitol Toll Free Numbers:

(800) 862-5530

(877)-851-6437

(866) 220-0044

I called Reid and Ensign last night after work. Reid's voice mailbox was full. Left message in Ensign's. This morning my wife is calling them both too.

I am going to wait til this afternoon to call--I'm not getting thru on private lines either. Is this cause I'm on the left coast or is it happening everywhere???