I strongly suggest activists here (the doers, not the whiners) follow Beck’s lead on what to do. Remember, I have the congressional staff contact information for the whole Senate, and I am having solid successes in reaching staff members from all states. Just say you are “from so and so state” and are attending graduate school where you live now, but you plan to move back for the next elections, plus your family is still there and they listen to you on voting issues.
Roy Beck, President, NumbersUSA
Date: Thursday 16DEC2010 8:30 a.m. EDT
DEAR AMNESTY OPPONENTS,
Here Are Today’s (THURS) Target Lists For Phoning
(Includes Direct Phone Numbers For DC & Local Offices)
It seems possible that the Senate could vote on the DREAM Act amnesty as early as Sunday (Majority Leader Reid is keeping Senators in session all weekend.) You will be unlikely to get a phone answered on the weekend, so you need to voice your opinion today.
These Senators Lean Strongly YES On Amnesty
But Will Have To Face Voters In 2012
Friends, this is a mostly new target list. Can we really hammer these phones today?
A Newsweek blog now notes that Sen. Reid’s dragging out the amnesty vote may be starting to endanger several Senators in his Party who are more and more dreading having to run for re-election in 2012 with a recent amnesty vote on their record.
This first list is entirely of Democratic Senators who must run for re-election in 2012 in competitive states. In other words, each of them knows he/she could lose (especially after what just happened in the elections last month).
All you have to do is dislodge one or two of these from voting YES and I think you would guarantee amnesty defeat. (Or you may pressure them enough that they will beg Sen. Reid to just not hold the vote.)
Here is some starter language for you on the phone calls (in addition to key points listed at the bottom of this email):
Sen. xmxmx is going to have a rough time campaigning in 2012 with a record of voting for this DREAM Act amnesty while 22 million Americans can’t find a job.
Everybody is going to know that Sen. xmxmx’s amnesty vote forced our unemployed Americans to compete with millions more foreign-born workers without doing a single thing to increase enforcement to stop millions more illegal aliens from coming here and taking jobs.
Sen. xmxmxm is backing the wrong DREAM Act. The Senator wants to help young adults who presumably were brought here illegally as children and now find themselves many years later in tough situation.
But what caused that? The cause was that our government allowed their parents to illegally take a job from an American worker and then to illegally keep that job for years and years.
THIS DREAM Act amnesty does nothing to keep that from happening again and again forever.
Vote NO on this DREAM amnesty and come back and work on a DREAM that will stop all parents in the future from putting their kids in this situation by living and working here illegally for years at a time.
Yes, adding extra calls to all the local offices can really help sow doubt and concern within a Senator’s organization.
CONNECTICUT
Joseph Lieberman (D)
Washington, DC: ph: 202-224-4041 adr: U.S. Senate, Washington, DC 20510
Hartford: ph: 860-549-8463 adr: One Constitution Plaza, Hartford, CT 06103
FLORIDA
Bill Nelson (D)
Washington, DC: ph: 202-224-5274 adr: U.S. Senate, Washington, DC 20510
Coral Gables: ph: 305-536-5999 adr: 2925 Salzedo Street, Coral Gables, FL 33134
Davie: ph: 954-693-4851 adr: 3416 South University Drive, Davie, FL 33328
Fort Myers: ph: 239-334-7760 adr: 2000 Main Street, Fort Myers, FL 33901
Jacksonville: ph: 904-346-4500 adr: 1301 Riverplace Boulevard, Jacksonville , FL 32207
Orlando: ph: 407-872-7161 adr: 225 East Robinson Street, Orlando, FL 32801
Tallahassee: ph: 850-942-8415 adr: U.S. Courthouse Annex, Tallahassee, FL 32301
West Palm Beach: ph: 561-514-0189 adr: 500 Australian Ave, West Palm Bch, FL 33401
MICHIGAN
Debbie Stabenow (D)
Washington, DC: ph: 202-224-4822 adr: U.S. Senate, Washington, DC 20510
Detroit: ph: 313-961-4330 adr: 243 West Congress, Detroit, MI 48226
East Lansing: ph: 517-203-1760 adr: 221 W Lake Lansing Rd, East Lansing, MI 48823
Flint: ph: 810-720-4172 adr: 2503 South Linden Road, Flint, MI 48532
Grand Rapids: ph: 616-975-0052 adr: 3230 Broadmoor Street, Grand Rapids, MI 49512
Marquette: ph: 906-228-8756 adr: 1901 West Ridge, Marquette, MI 49855
Traverse City: ph: 231-929-1031 adr: 3335 South Airport Road W, Traverse City, MI 49684
MINNESOTA
Amy Klobuchar (D)
Washington, DC: ph: 202-224-3244 adr: U.S. Senate, Washington, DC 20510
Minneapolis: ph: 612-727-5220 adr: 1200 Washington Ave S, Minneapolis, MN 55415
Moorhead: ph: 218-287-2219 adr: 121 4th Street South, Moorhead, MN 56560
Rochester: ph: 507-288-5321 adr: 1134 7th Street NW, Rochester, MN 55901
Virginia: ph: 218-741-9690 adr: 820 9th Street North, Virginia, MN 55792
MISSOURI
Claire McCaskill (D)
Washington, DC: ph: 202-224-6154 adr: U.S. Senate, Washington, DC 20510
Cape Girardeau: ph: 573-651-0964 adr: 555 Independence Ave., Cape Girardeau, MO 63703
Columbia: ph: 573-442-7130 adr: 915 East Ash Street, Columbia, MO 65201
Kansas City: ph: 816-421-1639 adr: 4141 Pennsylvania, Kansas City, MO 64111
Springfield: ph: 417-868-8745 adr: 324 Park Central West, Springfield, MO 65806
St. Louis: ph: 314-367-1364 adr: 5850 A Delmar Boulevard, St. Louis, MO 63112
NEW MEXICO
Jeff Bingaman (D)
Washington, DC ph: 202-224-5521 adr: U.S. Senate, Washington, DC 20510
Albuquerque: ph: 505-346-6601 adr: 625 Silver Ave SW, #130, Albuquerque, NM 87102
Las Cruces: ph: 575-523-6561 adr: Loretto Town Centre, Las Cruces, NM 88001
Las Vegas: ph: 505-454-8824 adr: 118 Bridge Street – Suite 3, Las Vegas, NM 87701
Roswell: ph: 575-622-7113 adr: 105 West Third Street – Suite 409, Roswell, NM 88201
Santa Fe: ph: 505-988-6647 adr: 119 East Marcy – Suite 101, Santa Fe, NM 87501
OHIO
Sherrod Brown (D)
Washington, DC: ph: 202-224-2315 adr: U.S. Senate, Washington, DC 20510
Cincinnati: ph: 513-684-1021 adr: 425 Walnut Street, Cincinnati, OH 45202
Cleveland: ph: 216-522-7272 adr: 1301 East Ninth St., Cleveland, OH 44114
Columbus: ph: 614-469-2083 adr: 200 N High St., Columbus, OH 43215
Lorain: ph: 440-242-4100 adr: 205 West 20th St., Lorain, OH 44052
VIRGINIA
Jim Webb (D)
Washington, DC: ph: 202-224-4024 adr: U.S. Senate, Washington, DC 20510
Falls Church: ph: 703-573-7090 adr: 7309 Arlington Boulevard, Falls Church, VA 22042
Richmond: ph: 804-771-2221 adr: 507 East Franklin Street, Richmond, VA 23219
Roanoke: ph: 540-772-4236 adr: 3140 Chaparral Drive, Roanoke, VA 24018
Virginia Beach: ph: 757-518-1674 adr: 222 Central Park Ave, Virginia Beach, VA 23462
WASHINGTON
Maria Cantwell (D)
Washington, DC: ph: 202-224-3441 adr: U.S. Senate, Washington, DC 20510
Everett: ph: 888-648-7328 adr: 2930 Wetmore Avenue, Everett, WA 98201
Richland: ph: 509-946-8106 adr: 825 Jadwin Avenue, Richland, WA 99352
Seattle: ph: 206-220-6400 adr: 915 Second Avenue, Seattle, WA 98174
Spokane: ph: 509-353-2507 adr: U.S. Federal Courthouse, Spokane, WA 99201
Tacoma: ph: 253-572-2281 adr: 950 Pacific Avenue, Tacoma, WA 98402
Vancouver: ph: 360-696-7838 adr: 1313 Officers Row, Vancouver, WA 98661
WISCONSIN
Herb Kohl (D)
Washington, DC: ph: 202-224-5653 adr: U.S. Senate, Washington, DC 20510
Appleton: ph: 920-738-1640 adr: 4321 West College Ave., Appleton, WI 54914
Eau Claire: ph: 715-832-8424 adr: 402 Graham Ave, #206, Eau Claire, WI 54701
LaCrosse: ph: 608-796-0045 adr: 425 State Street – Suite 202, LaCrosse, WI 54601
Madison: ph: 608-264-5338 adr: 14 West Muffin Street – Suite 312, Madison, WI 53703
Milwaukee: ph: 414-297-4451 adr: 310 W Wisconsin Ave – #950, Milwaukee, WI 53203
These Senators Do NOT Face 2012 Re-Election
But Are On The Fence And Leaning YES
ALASKA
Lisa Murkowski (R)
Washington, DC: ph: 202-224-6665 adr: U.S. Senate, Washington, DC 20510
Anchorage: ph: 877-829-6030 adr: 510 L Street, Anchorage, AK 99501
Fairbanks: ph: 907-456-0233 adr: 101 12th Avenue, Fairbanks, AK 99701
Juneau: ph: 907-586-7400 adr: 709 West 9th Street, Juneau, AK 99802
Kenai: ph: 907-283-5808 adr: 130 Trading Bay Road, Kenai, AK 99611
Ketchikan: ph: 907-283-5208 adr: 540 Water Street, Ketchikan, AK 99901
Wasilla: ph: 907-376-7665 adr: 851 East Westpoint Drive, Wasilla, AK 99654
LOUISIANA
Mary Landrieu (D)
Washington, DC: ph: 202-224-5824 adr: U.S. Senate, Washington, DC 20510
Baton Rouge: ph: 225-389-0395 adr: U.S. Postal Building, Baton Rouge, LA 70801
Lake Charles: ph: 337-436-6650 adr: One Lakeshore Drive, Lake Charles, LA 70629
New Orleans: ph: 504-589-2427 adr: Hale Boggs Federal Bldg, New Orleans, LA 70130
Shreveport: ph: 318-676-3085 adr: U.S. Courthouse, Shreveport, LA 71101
NORTH DAKOTA
Byron Dorgan (D)
Washington, DC: ph: 202-224-2551 adr: U.S. Senate, Washington, DC 20510
Bismarck: ph: 701-250-4618 adr: Federal Building, Bismarck, ND 58501
Fargo: ph: 701-239-5389 adr: 112 Roberts Street, Fargo, ND 58102
Grand Forks: ph: 701-746-9126 adr: 102 North 4th St, #108, Grand Forks, ND 58201
Minot: ph: 701-852-0703 adr: 100 First Street South West, Suite 105, Minot, ND 58701
Encourage These Senators To Stick
With Recent Pledges To Vote NO
MAINE
Susan Collins (R)
Washington, DC: ph: 202-224-2523 adr: U.S. Senate, Washington, DC 20510
Augusta: ph: 207-622-8414 adr: 68 Seawall Street, Augusta, ME 04330
Bangor: ph: 207-945-0417 adr: 202 Harlow Street – Room 204, Bangor, ME 04401
Biddeford: ph: 207-283-1101 adr: 160 Main Street, Biddeford, ME 04005
Caribou: ph: 207-493-7873 adr: 25 Sweden Street – Suite A, Caribou, ME 04736
Lewiston: ph: 207-784-6969 adr: 11 Lisbon Street, Lewiston, ME 04240
Portland: ph: 207-780-3575 adr: 1 City Center, Portland, ME 04101
Olympia Snowe (R)
Washington, DC: ph: 202-224-5344 adr: U.S. Senate, Washington, DC 20510
Auburn: ph: 207-786-2451 adr: Two Great Falls Plaza, Auburn, ME 04210
Augusta: ph: 207-622-8292 adr: 68 Sewall Street – Suite 101C, Augusta, ME 04330
Bangor: ph: 207-945-0432 adr: 1 Cumberland Place, Bangor, ME 04401
Biddeford: ph: 207-282-4144 adr: 231 Main Street, Suite 2, Biddeford, ME 04005
Lewiston: ph: 207-784-6969 adr: 11 Lisbon Street, Lewiston, ME 04240
Portland: ph: 207-874-0883 adr: 3 Canal Plaza – Suite 601, Portland, ME 04112
Presque Isle: ph: 207-764-5124 adr: 169 Academy Street, Presque Isle, ME 04769
MONTANA
Sen. Max Baucus (D)
Washington, DC ph: 202-224-2651 adr: U.S. Senate, Washington, DC 20510
Billings: ph: 406-657-6790 adr: 202 Fratt Building, Billings, MT 59101
Bozeman: ph: 406-586-6104 adr: Federal Building, Bozeman, MT 59715
Butte: ph: 406-782-8700 adr: Silver Bow Center, Butte, MT 59701
Great Falls: ph: 406-761-1574 adr: 18 5th Street South, Great Falls, MT 59401
Helena: ph: 406-449-5480 adr: 225 Cruse Avenue – Suite D, Helena, MT 59601
Missoula: ph: 406-329-3123 adr: 211 North Higgins – Room 102, Missoula, MT 59802
NORTH CAROLINA
Kay Hagan (D)
Washington, DC: ph: 202-224-6342 adr: U.S. Senate, Washington, DC 20510
Greensboro: ph: 336-333-5311 adr: 701 Green Valley Rd, Greensboro, NC 27408
Raleigh: ph: 919-856-4630 adr: 310 New Bern Avenue, Raleigh, NC 27601
NORTH DAKOTA
Kent Conrad (D)
Washington, DC: ph: 202-224-2043 adr: U.S. Senate, Washington, DC 20510
Bismarck: ph: 701-258-4648 adr: Federal Building, Bismarck, ND 58501
Fargo: ph: 701-232-8030 adr: Federal Building, Fargo, ND 58102
Grand Forks: ph: 701-775-9601 adr: Federal Building, Grand Forks, ND 58203
Minot: ph: 701-852-0703 adr: 100 First Street SW, Suite 105, Minot, ND 58701
Most Senate Offices Are Unaware Of The Millions Of 10-Year Work Permits That DREAM Offers To Illegal Aliens
1. Application: The DREAM amnesty begins with illegal aliens filling out applications. They merely have to claim — not provide evidence — that they meet criteria of having been brought to the U.S. before age 16 and being under the age of 30 at time of enactment and being present in the U.S. at least 5 years before enactment of the amnesty, among other criteria.
2. Work Permits Given: Once they allege these minimal criteria, the illegal aliens are given “conditional lawful permanent resident status” and are given a 10-year work permit to compete directly with the 22 million Americans who want a full-time job but can’t find one.
Estimates suggest that up to 2 million illegal aliens could legitimately qualify for the opening application, and perhaps a couple million more might be or look young enough to fraudulently apply.
Those millions would immediately be able to legally compete for any U.S. job.
3. Ten Years of Work Before Education Required: Despite all the talk about how this amnesty is just for people who go to college or serve in the military, the illegal aliens don’t have to do much of anything in that regard to have the legal right to work for 10 years.
Everybody who applies and gets the work permits has 10 years to complete two years of college or two years of military. Ten Years!
By the way, despite the fact that some media outlets have taken to referring to the potential recipients of the amnesty as “the best and the brightest” and “stars,” illegal aliens can get the 10-year work permit merely by completing a GED and enrolling in a single course in a community college or trade school.
4. When 10 Years Are Up, What’s The Chance of Anybody Being Asked to Leave? At the end of 10 years, illegal aliens who have not compiled two years of college or military would finally lose the right to compete legally with unemployed Americans for a job.
But they also would have sunk 10 more years of roots into their communities, building up an even bigger claim that it would be a hardship to be forced to leave this country. In addition, their advocates in the open-borders groups can say that they aren’t really illegal aliens since they have just spent 10 years living and working as legal residents.
Fortunately for them, the DREAM amnesty allows those who fail to meet any of the criteria after 10 years to file a claim of hardship. The US Citizenship & Immigration Services agency is given the right to issue waivers and allow these illegal aliens to stay. By the way, they can get a waiver if the hardship is to them, or if it would be to a spouse, one of their children or one of their parents.
In the end, it is not only the 2 million potential qualified opening applicants but millions of potential fraudulant applicants who will get 10 years of legal competition against unemployed Americans. The only way the frauds can lose their work permit is if the government brings individualized cases to prove that they lied on the applications. Want to guess how many of the millions of fraud cases the government would have time to investigate and prosecute — one by one?
Are any of the pro-DREAM amnesty supporters thinking about that?
Aside from all the issues of rewarding or encouraging law-breaking, there is the question about why this Lame Duck Congress at this time of 9.8% unemployment would feel the need to greatly increase the job competition for unemployed Americans.
THANKS FOR CALLING AGAIN TODAY,
P.S. Stay up on latest breaking information about the amnesty fight, the new Border Patrol murder and more at:
www.NumbersUSA.com
Done — called Senator Lieberman and left a message, “no to the Dream Act.”
Rev. Ted Pike has a toll free number that puts you in contact with the Senate, and he has a couple of good issues that dovetail with the Dream Act:
http://www.truthtellers.org/actionplan.html
@Jack
Can you chew bubble-gum, and, walk at the same time?
Hunter,
What’s your take on this Earlmundo Armant Pitts III?
(what kind of people use “the Third” in the name?)
Seems like we’ve had more than a few troll posts.
@ Jack
Dear boy, I was just replying to your 6 paragraph monograph.
EAP III
There are no “boys” here.
Please make some calls, send e-mails to Senate Congressional Staff to oppose the Dream Act/Nightmare Act. Men are doing serious, important work here.
thanks for the info, Jack. Hit Sen. Webb’s offices – I’d hit just his DC office yesterday.
Thanks frontwards. I hope you got to have a one on one, meaningful discussion with a lower level congressional staff member.
Sure did. Had to leave messages at two offices, but talked to at least four different people today. Shades of 2007. Appreciate the motivation to phone — easy to just do the faxes but calls are important too.
“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” –Theodore Roosevelt
frontwards is a noble soul
The vote is Saturday:
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1210/46495.html
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid moved late Thursday to set up a climactic vote this weekend on a bill to repeal the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy.
The procedural vote is set for Saturday, along with one on a bill to legalize some children of illegal immigrants who enlist in the military or in college, known as the DREAM Act.
Democrats appear short of the 60 votes needed to break a GOP-led filibuster on the immigration measure.
Jew Wyden might miss the vote for surgery:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2643762/posts
Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) will undergo surgery next week to treat early-stage prostate cancer, forcing him to miss Friday’s Senate session and parts of next week.
Wyden’s impending absence threatens to significantly complicate Democrats’ lame-duck agenda, as they’ll be without a typically reliable vote in the Oregon Democrat. The upper chamber still needs to pass a $1.1 trillion omnibus spending bill, ratify the New Start nuclear treaty and repeal the military’s “Don’t ask, don’t tell” policy.
“I scheduled the surgery for the Monday before Christmas anticipating that the Senate would have recessed by that time and that there would be no disruption to my work in Oregon or Washington,” Wyden said in a statement. “However, it now appears that I will be missing votes tomorrow and possibly next week while I prepare [for] and undergo this procedure. I expect to be back to work full-time when the Senate reconvenes in January.”
Wyden was diagnosed with the early-stage cancer in late November.
“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” –Theodore Roosevelt
That’s a great quote. I’m going to take that as a motto.
Wandrin: The Greens have a similar idea. “Think globally, act locally”.
I called one of the regional offices for Jim Webb and talked with the staffer to ask Senator Webb to vote against the Dream Act. The Falls Church office phone line was busy a little before 3 pm Eastern.
Sned this to everyone you know. California is dying – your state is next.
Thanks Numbers USA for all you do.
http://www.ocregister.com/opinion/rural-280355-areas-various.html