Thread: William: Are you willing to do what it takes to win ???

OLIVER DID YOU FIND THE INFO YOU E-MAILED ME ABOUT??

SOSAD wrote:

OLIVER DID YOU FIND THE INFO YOU E-MAILED ME ABOUT??

Not yet SOSAD! Would you repost for me! I've been trying to contact other groups for W!

Originally Posted by olivermyboy

SOSAD wrote:

OLIVER DID YOU FIND THE INFO YOU E-MAILED ME ABOUT??

Not yet SOSAD! Would you repost for me! I've been trying to contact other groups for W!

lOOK ABOVE YOU FOUR POSTS, INFORMATION IS ON IT!!

Has anybody ever gotten thru to McConnell and not been put on hold???

Called Ensign!

****IT IS CRITICAL TO CONTACT THESE SENATORS TODAY***

We all must contact Senator Lamar Alexander's and Senator Bob Corker's Offices today. These Senators are working with Kay Bailey Hutchinson to make the Senate Bill more acceptable to some holdouts.

PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE Contact their Offices in Washington, or if busy their Tennessee offices or other listed numbers.

http://alexander.senate.gov/index.cfm?F ... ntact.home

http://alexander.senate.gov/index.cfm?F ... ct.Offices

Email:
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By Phone:
(615) 312-7270

http://www.lamaralexander.com/index.cfm ... actUs.Home

SENATOR BOB CORKER

http://corker.senate.gov/Contact/index.cfm


Don't forget Alexander came up with the lame idea that 3 out of 4 border governors will sign off on the security of the border along with Secretary Chertoff.

Senator Bob Corker of Chattanooga is from a city overrun with illegals, gangs, drugs, and other criminal actiivty. ICE, the Dept of Homeland Security and local law enforcement form gang suppression units to keep the city under control.

(quote)

Senators bargain for votes to revive stalled immigration bill

Alexander and Corker co-sponsor provision to toughen application requirement

By JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS
Associated Press Writer


Published: Saturday, 06/16/07
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Two Tennessee Republicans are co-sponsors of a compromise that could help keep an immigration reform bill alive.

Sens. Lamar Alexander and Bob Corker have co-sponsored a provision crafted by Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, to toughen a requirement that unlawful immigrants seeking green cards return home to apply for permanent legal residency.

Senate leaders' announcement Thursday that they would allow the immigration bill a second chance came after getting assurances from key negotiators that they could produce enough support to steer the measure through a procedural minefield, including attempts by conservatives to block it.

The fragile compromise would grant millions of illegal immigrants lawful status while tightening border security and creating new measures for weeding out illegal workers at job sites. Championed by President Bush, it has sparked an outcry among conservatives who regard it as amnesty for lawbreakers.

An appearance by Bush on Capitol Hill this week to prod action on the measure -- and his subsequent OK to immediately pumping a new $4.4 billion into border security -- helped set the stage for its resurrection. But it was raw trolling for votes by key Republicans and Democrats that made the difference, said lawmakers and senior officials involved in the talks.

The coalition drew up a tentative list of 22 amendments _ divided equally between the two parties -- whose consideration would give a handful of Republicans the comfort they needed to allow the bill to go forward. That would take 60 votes -- a threshold the bill missed by 15 last week, when just seven Republicans backed ending debate and moving to complete the bill.

Allowing votes on the proposals "has as its goal bringing more people on board," Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, a lead Republican negotiator, said in an interview Friday. "They're going to get input that will make them feel better," Graham said of wavering Republicans.

"I do believe that with this new process, there will be enough votes to get to final passage, but the pressure's immense," Graham said. "I'll be going senator to senator" next week to persuade Republicans to back it.

Bush plans to keep blocks of time open next week in order to be able to jump in as needed with pointed remarks and calls or meetings with lawmakers, aides said.

"Each day our nation fails to act the problem only grows worse," the president said Friday at the National Hispanic Prayer Breakfast. "I will continue to work closely with members of both parties to get past our differences and pass a bill I can sign this year."

The package is not yet final, and key players probably will be hammering it out even as it unfolds on the Senate floor -- as has been typical of the delicate immigration deal, the product of virtually constant negotiation and renegotiation this spring.

For some GOP holdouts, the promise of votes to make the bill more punitive toward the estimated 12 million illegal immigrants who would get lawful status might be enough to persuade them to support moving ahead.

Negotiators hope that's the case for Alexander, Corker and Hutchinson.

Under the emerging framework, there would be a vote on a their proposal to require all illegal immigrants to go home within two years in order to receive a Z visa to live and work lawfully in the U.S.

The plan also is expected to allow a vote on an amendment by Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., that would bar illegal immigrants from gaining lawful status until border security and workplace enforcement measures were accomplished. As written, the bill would allow those immigrants to gain probationary legal status to live and work in the U.S. until the so-called triggers were in place.

Proponents of the bill are hoping others will like the prospect of the binding commitment of new money for strict border security and workplace enforcement measures. That proposal is geared toward satisfying the concerns of Georgia Republican Sens. Saxby Chambliss and Johnny Isakson, who have called on the Bush administration to request separate emergency funding for those purposes before any action on a broader immigration bill.

Key Republicans also believe they can secure the backing of some centrists who supported an immigration overhaul last year, including Sen. Norm Coleman, R-Minn. To better their chances of persuading him, they are expected to allow Coleman a second vote on his proposal -- narrowly defeated last month -- to allow law enforcement officials to question people about their immigration status.

Seemingly resigned to the bill's passage, Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., now says he plans to block a conference that would be needed to reconcile House and Senate versions before an immigration bill could be signed into law, his office said on Friday.

Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., "has sold us another bill of goods and I don't trust him to make even more changes to it behind closed doors in a conference with the House," DeMint said through a spokesman.

Democrats, too, were looking for ways to appease skeptics within their ranks.
Among the proposals that would see a vote under the still-incomplete plan, according to aides and lobbyists familiar with it, is one that would increase the number of green cards available for family members of U.S. citizens and legal permanent residents. They spoke on condition of anonymity because the deal is not final.

Another proposal expected to be considered would remove a measure known as REAL ID, which requires states to verify that people who apply for a driver's license are in the country legally.(quote)

http://www.tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll ... S/70616006


Chattanooga is a few minutes from Dalton, GA already consumed by illegal aliens, crime, drugs, gangs. Spanish is the norm and the FBI and ICE have regualr visits to this area. Cleveland, Tn is now a de facto sanctuary city with MS 13 gang activity in schools, on the streets, drugs, crime, increased DUI's, and a total lack of enforcement of housing codes for overcrowding of homes and apartments harboring illegal aliens. Mayor Tom Rowland of Cleveland, TN and the City Council has been approached about the 287 (g). The Mayor nor the Police Chief Wes Snyder have showed signs of stepping forward protecting Cleveland, TN.

W,

Good job on the Al Rantel show (KABC-Los Angeles) this morning, as usual. I hope you have a good response and get more funds for the phone calls, and thanks for the warning about illegal aliens calling the Senate. This motivates me to keep making more calls!

Guys, I have figured out that alot of these staff people are just winging it and they are really clueless as to what is going on or the stance of their Senator Bosses. I will get one response from one office and then one from another. So keep on them no matter what the story of the day.

Senator Corker's Washington office said one thing and his Chattanooga office said another. I wanted to know his stance on the bill at this time. Senator Corker has problems with large portions of the bill. Then I asked well why is he cohorting with Senator Lamar Alexander and Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson to come up with something that will allow the bill to pass. That stumped him and he said all he knows is that he is not comfortable with the bill.

Senator Corker's Chattanooga office says that he is uncomfortable with a significant portion of the bill. Then I asked why is he spending time with Senator Alexander and Senator Hutchinson. I wanted to know if he is uncomfortable with the bill, why doesn't he just say NO. He paused, then said well, he voted against cloture which meant he was against the bill. So I said, he will vote NO on cloture and NO on the bill?

Then young man just said Yes (yeah right). So let's put all of this in the KEEP CALLING, KEEP CALLING - these TN senators are potential converts for sure, especially Alexander, and he will bring his little junior TN senator Bob Corker with him.

W,

I also heard you on Al Rantel Show on KABC 790 AM! Good job!

I have contacted about half of the "affiliated groups" you listed. A couple were offended that I was implying that they were "incompetent
boobs" and didn't know what to do on their own! One guy said,

"Yeah, right. I'm sure you have better things to do than to tell organizations and activists what to do and how to do it as if we were incompetent boobs, unable to act on our own. If you don't like what we are doing or how we are doing it, then get your butt over to Colorado and form your own organization - based entirely on volunteer time and effort - and do whatever you want. On the other hand, if you really want to help us out, send us a check for $1,000 in today's mail."

I responded:

"Didn't mean to offend you...just trying to get all the activist groups along with ALIPAC and NumbersUSA working together this week. Not that it would matter much to you, but I am calling all the Senators, emailing and faxing them everyday and have been for the past month on this issue as well as attending rallys and protests. Aside from that, I have donate significant funds to fight this effort. I think your anger would be better focused on the enemy...not your friends! Blessings in your efforts!"

But for the most part, I have had a positive response to the plea! Still at it!

GeorgiaPeach wrote:

Then young man just said Yes (yeah right). So let's put all of this in the KEEP CALLING, KEEP CALLING - these TN senators are potential converts for sure, especially Alexander, and he will bring his little junior TN senator Bob Corker with him.

I'm going to call Corker and remind him Lott will sell him out and then strip the bill of any favorable amendments leaving them out to dry!!!

Seemingly resigned to the bill's passage, Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., now says he plans to block a conference that would be needed to reconcile House and Senate versions before an immigration bill could be signed into law, his office said on Friday.

http://www.tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll ... S/70616006

This looks really bad, but according to DeMint's office he is still hoping to stop the bill in the cloture vote. I guess they want this all tied up in a pretty package by July 4th. Reid could introduce it for a cloture vote very soon.

Called Corker's office and told him no to his "touchback" amendment with Alexander and Hutchison. I said #1 It is still amnesty. #2. Corker cannot be naive enough to believe the amendment will not be stripped by Trent Lott who will hang him out to dry just like he does the American people!