Time to change some minds in the senate -

Feel free to use these talking points (if you like 'em and care to of course) to bring even more pointed attention to the poor recent performance demonstrated by certain senators. These are ones that voted against the Vitter Amendment (ensuring de facto 'amnesty' for current IAs).

Remember, getting mad and relating your anger might make YOU feel better, but it often does little to persuade a legislator to warm to your views in a debate. Let's try large doses of persuasion and delivered with much repetition:

(Help yourself to use [or not] the points below. I won't be offended if you bend, staple, mutilate, etc. these either...)


Ensign[R-NV] (You voted solidly last year on provisions to protect American workers and citizens. This year, however, your voting pattern appears to be a marked shift from such earlier support. You voted against the Vitter Amendment. This is a big disappointment. What has convinced you to abandon your previous support for strong enforcement? I know you can do better in the future and expect you to do so.)

Domenici[R-NM] (I am greatly disappointed in your vote against the Vitter Amendment in the immigration reform bill. As a person having intimate personal knowledge of the problems facing our most vulnerable and dispossessed citizens, I am truly amazed and ashamed that you have chosen to dishonor these Americans by allowing illegal aliens to remain in the country. These illegal aliens often take jobs that American citizens need and deserve - especially our disabled and unemployed. Shame on you senator. How will you explain your vote to you daughter? I would like to know. You should know better.)

Webb[D-VA] (Despite supportive comments about working class Americans [and unemployed Americans], you voted to undermine these same Americans by voting to allow ever greater numbers of foreign workers to compete for US jobs. You voted against the Vitter Amendment.
This is a big disappointment. Have you forgotten about working class Americans in this debate? I expect you to do better in the future.)

Lieberman[I-CT] (Despite a solid history and expertise on national security issues, you have bewildered me by choosing to vote with other senators that consider true border security only as an afterthought. This is a terrible disappointment to me. How can you support strong national security policy in one context, and overlook it, in the other? I know you can do better in the future.)

Coleman[R-MN] (In contradiction to your excellent proposed amendment to facilitate greater information sharing among Federal agencies to help reduce document fraud, identity theft, etc. - you voted against the Vitter Amendment to deny legal status to illegal aliens. This is a huge disappointment to me. Your vote all but assures the current problem to continue and even worsen. What explains this contradictory behavior? I expect you to do better in the future.

Kyl[R-AZ] (Is it true, as Sen. Sessions says, that you are one of the "Master's of the Universe"? I thought as a solid conservative legislator, that you would not be prone to support legislation crafted in secret? Yet, you voted against the Vitter Amendment. Doing so, all but ensures that illegal aliens in the US can remain under a legal status. Most Americans do not support amnesty - what has led you so far astray from the views of the average American? Please do better in the future.

Whitehouse[D-RI] (I know that you have invested great efforts to address the needs of our ailing health care system - a system that is continually on the brink of insolvency and pressed to provide adequate services to our citizens. At the same time, you have voted to further intensify the pressure on the very system you claim you want to fix. Your vote against the Vitter Amendment all but assures that your efforts to address the needs of our health care system will only be that much more futile. These contradictory positions are difficult to understand. Please do better in the future.

Thomas[R-WY] (Despite a past history of support for law enforcement and supporting American workers, you broke ranks with earlier votes and chose to vote against the Vitter Amendment in the immigration reform bill.
Why have you chosen to support illegal aliens at the expense of the law-abiding American worker? I know you can do better in the future and expect you to do so.

Sanders[I-VT] (Thank you for speaking so eloquently on behalf of the all-too-forgotten US worker in the current immigration bill debate. Please continue to do so. At the same time, let me ask you to please support strong measures to enforce current law. Strong law enforcement protects American workers and their jobs. Please do support amendments like the Vitter Amendment in the future. The American worker will be very grateful and better off because of your support.)

Conrad[D-ND] (In contrast to your fellow senator's vote to support the Vitter Amendment, you voted no. This is a huge disappointment to me. Senator Dorgan understands that a vote for strong law enforcement is a vote FOR the law-abiding American worker. Until we have no American citizens which are unemployed or under-employed, we should not be facilitating even greater numbers of unauthorized persons into the country to compete for US jobs. I know you can do better in the future and expect you to do so.


Ones that I need some specific informational 'angles' to work are (eg. are probably higher priority than most others...)

NC - Burr
TX - Cornyn and Hutchison
OH - Voinovich
GA - Chambliss and Isakson
ID - Craig
NE - Hagel
VA - Warner
NH - Gregg
ME - Collins
OR - Smith
SC - Graham
PA - Specter

Anybody got any suggestions? Please stick 'em up here if you do (or PM I suppose...)