Thread: Today's targets to stop amnesty in Senate (Numbers U S A )

Email from Numbers U.S.A..... House-Passed Amnesty Could Hit
Senate For Vote As Early As Wednesday

IF WE LOSE THIS ONE, 10 YEARS OF BEATING
EVERY AMNESTY WILL BE NULLIFIED

My gut feeling is still that we ought to be able to defeat the House-passed Dream Act amnesty when it comes up for a vote in the Senate later this week.

But . . .

Do you really want to rely on my gut?

PHONE THESE UNDECLARED SENATORS
WHO COULD KILL AMNESTY ONCE AND FOR ALL

If you can move at least two of these Senators into NO votes, I don't think there would be any chance of the amnesty passing.

The staffers of a couple of these have been telling our members that their Senator plans to vote NO. But the fact that those Senators have not publicly stated their opposition or shared that in any way with reporters is not a cause for great confidence. So, all of these need all the phone calls they can get. (See "Talking Points" below.)

Use the Capitol Switchboard:

202-224-3121

ALASKA
Sen. Murkowski (R)

LOUISIANA
Sen. Landrieu (D)

MISSOURI
Sen. McCaskill (D)

MONTANA
Sen. Baucus (D)

NORTH DAKOTA
Sen. Conrad (D)

WEST VIRGINIA
Sen. Manchin (D)

Note that most of these states are small-population states. We need a lot more phone calls going to those offices. If you live in those states, or in the same region, or have any other connection to those states, please make the calls. The other side is absolutely flooding their offices with phone calls making the most emotional appeals possible.

PHONE THESE SENATORS WHO NEED
ENCOURAGEMENT TO STICK WITH 'NO'

These Senators would have voted NO last Thursday if Senate Majority Leader Reid had not successfully moved to table the amnesty until he could find some more YES votes.

But there is so much horse trading going on right now with the tax deal, with the funding for the entire federal government still up in the air, with the START Treaty and any number of other issues that have to be resolved before Senators head home.

THESE SENATORS NEED TO HEAR WORDS OF ENCOURAGEMENT.

Thank them for their publicized promise to vote NO on the amnesty and then remind the staffers why NO is the right vote.

Our Hill Team asks that, if you have a Republican Senator (other than Lugar of Indiana or Bennett of Utah), phone him/her and encourage them to stick with their promise of NO.

But these Senators need the most encouragement because of the special politics of their own states and other vulnerabilities they may have to pressure from the open-borders folks.

ARKANSAS
Sen. Pryor (D)

FLORIDA
Sen. LeMieux (R)

MAINE
Sen. Collins (R)
Sen. Snowe (R)

MASSACHUSETTS
Sen. Brown (R)

NEBRASKA
Sen. Nelson (D)

NORTH CAROLINA
Sen. Hagan (D)

PLEASE DON'T FORGET THAT YOU ARE THANKING THESE SENATORS. They have announced they will vote NO. You are just calling them to let them know that their NO vote will be a popular one.

TURN THESE TWO SENATORS

For some reason, these two Senators who should be NO votes or, at the least, Undeclared were among the few who signed the cloture motion to start debate on the DREAM amnesty.

I feel that both could eventually vote NO on a final cloture vote that would END debate. But for some reason they seem to support STARTING the debate. Let's keep the pressure on them to kill this amnesty with the first cloture vote and not let the debate start in the first place.

MICHIGAN
Sen. Stabenow (D)

NORTH DAKOTA
Sen. Dorgan (D)

TALKING POINTS

I feel like most of the Senators are ignoring the main reasons the DREAM amnesty should not go any farther in this Lame Duck session:
It is a massive amnesty to deal with the symptoms of past out-of-control illegal immigration without a single provision to reduce future illegal immigration.


It creates millions more legal workers to compete with the 22 million Americans who want a full-time job but can't find one. And it does nothing to turn off the jobs magnet for future illegal workers.
Don't forget that the Senators you are calling are basically sympathetic to the young illegal-alien adults who were brought here by their parents.

I don't think speaking against the potential amnesty recipients will be helpful in those offices.

Instead, emphasize the points above and how continued illegal immigration harms American victims.

The DREAM Act amnesty is
(a) full of loopholes
(b) wildly susceptible to fraud
(c) does nothing to end the job magnet that allowed the parents to put these "kids" into their position in the first place.

WHAT MIGHT HAPPEN THIS WEEK

Let me first state what is at stake if we let up and the other side peels off just enough Senators to pass the House-passed amnesty.

How will we feel if we don't put our full effort into lobbying Senators this week and then the amnesty narrowly passes just before everybody goes home for the year? Any amnesty that passes the Senate this week will be signed into law. And even though there is no chance an amnesty could pass next year, there also is no chance that an amnesty passed this week could be overturned by next year's Congress (because of the President's certain veto of an overturning).

The mainstream media for the most part are treating the amnesty as something unlikely to be brought back up for a vote in the Senate, primarily because the legislative calendar is so crowded.

But nearly every group on the pro-amnesty side and on the anti-amnesty side believes that Sen. Reid will live up to his promise to hold the vote.

We don't see Reid bringing up DREAM before the tax deal is settled because the only way to add Republicans as YES votes is to get tax deal done first.

The Senate cloture vote to start debate on the tax deal is scheduled for 3 p.m. today (Monday). Perhaps the tax deal could be settled by Wednesday.

Reid has not yet filed cloture on DREAM. There can be no vote on DREAM until two calendar days after cloture has been filed. If he filed today, the vote could be as early as Wednesday.

I KNOW YOU ARE TIRED OF PHONING, PHONING, PHONING.

SO, THANKS SO MUCH FOR PICKING UP THAT PHONE ONCE AGAIN, Roy... http://www.numbersusa.com/content/node

LETS GO! GO! GO! KNOCK THIS NIGHTMARE BILL OUT OF OUR PARK ONCE AND FOR ALL.

What about Lugar and Bennet? I know it's a long shot that either one of those putzes is going to walk balk from supporting this awful bill, but I still think it's worth a phone call or two.

Baucus' staffer told me that he was going to vote against the DREAM Act. Did anyone get the same response?

Originally Posted by Shapka

What about Lugar and Bennet? I know it's a long shot that either one of those putzes is going to walk balk from supporting this awful bill, but I still think it's worth a phone call or two.

I called Lugar today (again) The staffer said that he Is presently undecided Keep calling him I know they cannot pass this without his vote. He was an original sponser of the "nightmare"...

Originally Posted by topsecret10

Originally Posted by Shapka

What about Lugar and Bennet? I know it's a long shot that either one of those putzes is going to walk balk from supporting this awful bill, but I still think it's worth a phone call or two.

I called Lugar today (again) The staffer said that he Is presently undecided Keep calling him I know they cannot pass this without his vote. He was an original sponser of the "nightmare"...

My thinking is that if the Republicans vote against cloture, as a bloc, it's dead. You don't have pray that that sellout Webb will have pangs of conscience, or that that product of nepotism, Mary Landrieu, will experience some newfound sanity, or rely on any other of these goofballs to wake up and smell the coffee.

42 Republicans against cloture
50+ Dems for cloture

Bill's dead. Just simple arithmetic.

Buacas is no
Lugar is undecided but was yes last week
Pryor is no
Hagan is no
McCaskill is no
Murkowski is undecided releasing statement today but I can't find it
Conrad is undecided
Manchin is undecided
Collins is undecided
Snowe is undecided
Brown(Mass.) is no
Ben Nelson is no
Bennett is yes
Stabenow is undecided

That is what I got at the closing bell today!
Keep calling call them all, maybe we can make yes votes think twice before messin' with us!

"Roofer"....When did they tell you Lugar was a "yes".... I called on my lunch break today and the staffer said that he was undecided...

Originally Posted by Shapka

What about Lugar and Bennet? I know it's a long shot that either one of those putzes is going to walk balk from supporting this awful bill, but I still think it's worth a phone call or two.

ABSOLUTELY! It's not over until it's over. If Lugar and Bennett want to sell out American Kids and give their educations and future job opportunities to illegal aliens, then they better know that's what they're doing before they do it, so lets tell them, this isn't about how illegal alien kids and their pity party, it's about American Kids and their constitutional right to a government that protects them, their educations, their job opportunities, and the power and strength o their votes when they turn 18.

We pay our government to provide certain limited public services, enforce our laws and protect our people, by all means necessary, whatever it takes. We don't pay our government let alone the US Congress to sell out the educations and careers of our "younsters". We just don't. The absurdity of the Dream Act is so farcical, it's unbelievable that Americans have had to fight this crap with money, organizations and enormous personal time for as I heard today over 10 years! This is fighting traitors and we shouldn't have traitors in the US Congress. So this is the true litmus test for traitors in our midst, Dream Act proponents in the US Congress. Get them all out in in 2012 and 2014. We can't allow men or women who would sell out their own kids let alone ours to foreign interests to be in the US Congress. We just can't. We see what they've collectively done to our country. They all have to go in 2012 and 2014.

If we get 50% of those undecideds, WE WIN