Citizens, Do Your Duty:
Jan 30th, 2006 at 10:34 am by Susie
“But Susie, I don’t really know what to say!” That’s okay, Vichy Democrats figured it all out for you:
FIRST, as each office opens (8:30 or 9 am Eastern, later for District offices as you move West), call every office (DC and District) of YOUR OWN Democratic Senators and urge them to support the filibuster by either voting NO on cloture or by ABSTAINING from the cloture vote. Be short and sweet but hit every office listed below. (If they’re not listed here, they’re probably not a problem — but feel free to make sure!) If you can get their staff to commit to a position, please post a comment here.
SECOND, call the “URGE ABSTENTION” Senators identified immediately below and do the same — say that you hope they vote NO on cloture this afternoon but if they can’t, urge them to ABSTAIN from the cloture vote by doing something good that most Republicans would never do, like visiting wounded soldiers at Walter Reed Army Hospital instead. (God knows the Republican leadership would never want to draw any attention to the costs of their war!) Doing so will be just as good as a “no” vote but will give them political cover with their conservative voters back home. Again, call their DC AND District offices. And again, if their staff will commit to a position on cloture and/or abstention, please post a comment here.
THIRD, rinse and repeat. That is, go through the “Urge Abstention” list twice, at least for those offices that don’t take detailed caller info like names and addresses.
That’s it. Simply hammer your own Senators and the key Senators. Report back so I can keep things updated. Then watch C-Span at 4:30 Eastern to see what happens! (And please check back here on Tuesday for an after-action report and a strategy for dealing with the result. Win or lose, we are taking this momentum forward to win back our Party and our Nation.)
Hey Susie, who should us PA peeps call?
Here are the people to call or email today, whether they represent you or not:
Robert Byrd (WV)
311 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
(202) 224-3954
Web Form: http://www.byrd.senate.gov/byrd_email.html
FAX: (202) 228-0002
Mary Landrieu (LA)
724 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
(202) 224-5824
Web Form: http://www.landrieu.senate.gov/contact/index.cfm
FAX: (202) 224-9735
K. Salazar (CO)
UNITED STATES SENATE WASHINGTON DC 20510
(202) 224-5852
Web Form: http://salazar.senate.gov/contact/email.cfm
FAX: (202) 228-5036
Johnson, Tim- (D – SD) Class II
136 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
(202) 224-5842
Web Form: http://johnson.senate.gov/emailform.cfm
Also worth a shot:
Susan Collins (ME)
461 Dirksen Senate Office Building, Washington, DC 20510
Phone: (202) 224-2523
WebForm: http://collins.senate.gov/public/continue.cfm?FuseActio…
FAX: (202) 224-2693
Olympia Snowe (ME)
154 Russell Senate Office Bldg., Washington DC 20510
Phone: (202) 224-1946
WebForm: http://snowe.senate.gov/Webform.htm
FAX: (202) 224-1946
Done. Only got thru to Salazra’s vm (everyone else was mailbox full or all circuits are busy) so I used the webforms.