NYC BREAKING: Freep Specter Monday! (5:15 pm, outside of Grand Hyatt Hotel 42nd st (btwn Park/Lex))

[1stFreedom]

Join New York Pro-Life Leaders

The Rabbi Yehuda Levin & Chris Slattery and many others for a

"Stop Specter -Pro-Life Picket"

Monday, November 15th

Outside Speaking event of Sen. Arlen Specter and Sen. Rick Santorum

at "The Monday Meeting"
Outside of Grand Hyatt Hotel
42nd St. (between-Park & Lex), Manhattan from 5:15-6:30PM

MORE...

1. CONTACT JUDICIARY COMMITTEE MEMBERS AND ASK THEM TO REJECT ARLEN SPECTER'S BID FOR THE CHAIRMANSHIP

Urge the Judiciary Committee members listed below to support Senator John Kyl of Arizona for Chairman, so that the anti-Specter forces are not divided among several of the other contenders thus giving Specter a better chance of winning. Kyl has the most seniority after Specter, excepting Grassley who doesn't want the job because he wants to maintain his position as chairman of the Finance Committee.

It is especially important that you contact the member if he is from your state!

Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), phone 202-224-5251, fax 202-224-6331
Charles Grassley (R-Iowa), phone 202-224-3744, fax 202-224-6020
Jon Kyl (R-Az.), phone 202-224-4521, fax 202-224-2207
Mike DeWine (R-Ohio), phone 202-224-2315, fax 202-224-6519
Jeff Sessions (R-Al.), phone 202-224-4124, fax 202-224-3149
Lindsey Graham (R-SC), 202-224-5972, fax 202-224-3808
Larry Craig (R-Id.), phone 202-224-2752, fax 202-228-1067
Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.), phone 202-224-3521, fax 202-224-0103
John Cornyn (R-Tx.), phone 202-224-2934, fax 202-228-2856

Email address can be found by clicking here!

2. CONTACT YOUR REPUBLICAN SENATOR(S)

If your U.S. Senator(s) in the new Congress is a Republican, contact his or her office immediately and let them know that you want them to fight against the nomination of Arlen Specter as Chairman of the Judiciary Committee. Let them know that if they don't vote against his nomination, you will not vote for them when it comes time for reelection. You can contact them by telephone through the Capitol Switchboard at 202-224-3121, and by email by clicking here

Newly elected Republican Senators may not yet be listed. Their contact information is as follows:

FL -- Mel Martinez, fax: 407-897-3130 or 305-897-8595, nilda@melforsenate.org
GA -- Johnny Isakson, 404-705-8822, fax: 404-256-9085, Johnny@isakson.net
LA -- David Vitter, phone: 202-225-3015, fax: 202-225-0739,
NC -- Richard Burr, phone: 336-777-1170, fax: 336-773-0198, richard.burrnc05@mail.house.gov
OK -- Tom Coburn, phone: 918-684-4308, fax: 918-684-4309, info@coburnforsenate.com
SC -- Jim DeMint, phone: 866-546-2004 or 202-225-6030, fax: 202-226-1177
SD -- John Thune, phone: 605-221-1010, fax: 605-221-1021, info@johnthune.com

3. CONTACT THE SENATE REPUBLICAN LEADERSHIP

Sen. Bill Frist (Tn.), majority leader. Phone: 202-224-3344, fax 202-228-1264. Email: Bill_Frist@FristSenate.gov
Sen. Mitch McConnell (Ky.), majority whip. Phone 202-224-2541, fax 202-224-2499, http://mcconnell.senate.gov/contact_form.cfm
Sen. Rick Santorum (Pa.), chairman, Senate Republican Conference. Phone 202-224-6324, fax 202-228-0604 or fax 202-228-4991, santorum.senate.gov/emailrjs.html
Sen. George Allen (Va.), chairman, National Republican Senatorial Committee. Phone 202-675-6000 (NRSC), fax 202-675-6058, allen.senate.gov/index.cfm?c=email
Sen. Norm Coleman (Mn.), candidate to become the new chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee. Phone 202-224-5641, fax 202-224-1152, coleman.senate.gov/index.cfm?FuseAction=Contact.ContactForm
Sen. Elizabeth Dole (NC), candidate to become the new chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee. Phone 202-224-6342, fax 202-224-1100, dole.senate.gov/index.cfm?FuseAction=ContactInformation.ContactForm
Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchinson (Tx.), vice-chairman, Senate Republican Conference. Phone 202-224-5922, fax 202-224-0776, hutchison.senate.gov/e-mail.htm

[1stFreedom]

Join the urgent national Grassroots pro-life campaign to Block anti-Life Senator Arlen Specter of PA from the Senate Judiciary Chair through protest, petitions, emails, and faxes... at these brand new websites:

www.StopSpecterNow.com

www.StopSpecter.Net

www.StopSpecter.org

www.NotSpecter.com/fax101.php

[26lemoncharlie]

Keep the Pressure on!! This will be a good indicator if the Republican Party is going to do what we elected them for.

[Henchman]

My kind of Rabbi. I am not in NYC or I'd be there. Me Jewish? Naw, but I like and respect them!

[TFine80]

I don't know.... Are they going to disrupt the event or just silently show their opposition?

I think this is getting a bit counterproductive, harassing him where-ever he goes. He is still a Republican after all.

[Henchman]

PING NYC Freep SPECTER

[Henchman]

Awww poor Specter. "Leave him alone", yes and let him block conservative judges, block Bush's nominees, Bork good judges, and the litany goes on. He is a Republican, after all - YES a RINO!

NAIL THE SOB before he can stab us in the back!

[TailspinJim]

FReepers don't disrupt, they peacably protest.
Specter is a RINO (Republican in Name Only) for your info.

[TFine80]

Maybe so... but what does following him around accomplish? Fine, call your Senators to ensure he is not nominated. But this is getting ridiculous.

[TailspinJim]

Son, have you ever heard of the DC Chapter. Nuf' said.

[TFine80]

I just feel like it is one thing to freep a Clinton book signing or something ... another to Freep a meeting with a number of Republicans just because you are irritated with one person present.

[Smartass]

KEEP ARLEN SPECTER OFF THE SENATE JUDICIARY

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Specter warns Bush on high court nominations

By LARA JAKES JORDAN
Associated Press

PHILADELPHIA -- The Republican expected to chair the Senate Judiciary Committee next year bluntly warned newly re-elected President Bush today against putting forth Supreme Court nominees who would seek to overturn abortion rights or are otherwise too conservative to win confirmation.

Sen. Arlen Specter, fresh from winning a fifth term in Pennsylvania, also said the current Supreme Court now lacks legal "giants" on the bench.

"When you talk about judges who would change the right of a woman to choose, overturn Roe v. Wade, I think that is unlikely," Specter said, referring to the landmark 1973 Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion.

"The president is well aware of what happened, when a bunch of his nominees were sent up, with the filibuster," Specter added, referring to Senate Democrats' success over the past four years in blocking the confirmation of many of Bush's conservative judicial picks. "... And I would expect the president to be mindful of the considerations which I am mentioning."

With at least three Supreme Court justices rumored to be eyeing retirement, including ailing Chief Justice William Rehnquist, Specter, 74, would have broad authority to reshape the nation's highest court. He would have wide latitude to schedule hearings, call for votes and make the process as easy or as hard as he wants.

Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., expressed confidence Wednesday that Bush will have more success his second term in winning the confirmation of his judicial nominees.

"I'm very confident that now we've gone from 51 seats to 55 seats, we will be able to overturn this what has become customary filibuster of judicial nominees," Frist said in Orlando, Fla.

Legal scholar Dennis Hutchinson said Specter's message to the White House appears to be "a way of asserting his authority" as he prepares to chair the Judiciary Committee when Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, is term-limited from keeping the post next year.

"What he may be trying to do is say, 'Don't just think that I'm going to process what you send through. I have standards, I'm going to take an independent look, you have to deal with me,'" said Hutchinson, a law professor at the University of Chicago.

When asked Wednesday about Specter's impending chairmanship, another Republican on the panel, Sen. John Cornyn of Texas, did not offer a ringing endorsement.

"We'll have to see where he stands," said Cornyn, a close friend of Bush who worked to get all of the president's nominees through the Senate. "I'm hoping that he will stand behind the president's nominees. I'm intending to sit down and discuss with him how things are going to work. We want to know what he's going do and how things are going to work."

While Specter is a loyal Republican -- Bush endorsed him in a tight Pennsylvania GOP primary -- he routinely crosses party lines to pass legislation and counts a Democrat, Sen. Joseph Biden of Delaware, as one of his closest friends.

A self-proclaimed moderate, he helped kill President Reagan's nomination of Robert Bork to the Supreme Court and of Jeff Sessions to a federal judgeship. Specter called both nominees too extreme on civil rights issues. Sessions later became a Republican senator from Alabama and now sits on the Judiciary Committee with Specter.

Despite a bruising challenge from conservatives this year in Pennsylvania's GOP primary, Specter won re-election Tuesday by an 11-point margin by appealing to moderate Republicans and ticket-splitting Democrats, even as Pennsylvania chose Democrat John Kerry over Bush.

A former district attorney, Specter also bemoaned what he called the lack of any current justices comparable to legal heavyweights like Oliver Wendell Holmes, Louis Brandeis, Benjamin Cardozo and Thurgood Marshall, "who were giants of the Supreme Court."

"With all due respect to the (current) U.S. Supreme Court, we don't have one," he said.

Though he refused to describe the political leanings of the high court, Specter said he "would characterize myself as moderate; I'm in the political swim. I would look for justices who would interpret the Constitution, as Cardozo has said, reflecting the values of the people."

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Eds: Associated Press writer Jesse J. Holland in Washington contributed to this report.

[Boazo]

Thanks,Ping

[Henchman]

Do you wish us to back off the Constitutionally guaranteed right to peaceful assembly? If we loose that right, it would be similar to loosing the Constitutional "right to life..."

No one is following Specter. It is a peaceful assembly, as guaranteed by the Constitution. Specter can stop the letters, FAXs, emails and demonstrations by simply withdrawing from the Chair of the Judicial Committee. I (if not We)do not care what the GOP says with regard to backing off. If we do, even the GOP will see that as a sign of weakness. If the DEMs are enjoying this, so be it, they lost, and that says it all.

Without knowing the Rabbi's religious affiliation, I would bet he is Orthodox. The Orthodox, like most decent people, think that abortion is an abomination.

I have written an Orthodox friend to stand with the Rabbi in my stead, as I am in Fl. Sitting back will allow Specter to duck his obligation to the electorate, as he has done in the past. Why Bush backed him is beyond me, I guess to get PA, which didn't happen. To allow a RINO like Specter to think the people do not care, that is wrong. I heard on the MSM, radio, that Specter has received death threats. Such threats are wrong, but protesting is proper and American.

[Henchman]

I recommend that ALL FReepers in every state email their friends, relatives and reliable work associates in the NYC area. Urge them to attend if possible. For many, the hour selected isn't the prime time, but why not try?

TFine80, Harvard Political never taught you this guerrilla tactics did they? What did they have to say about being in the path of a steam roller? Get out of the way or get on is the answer that will get you an A or a C depending on your action; anything else requires repeating the course. (PS, contact the business school to see if this is any way to sell a book.& don't take this personal, it is a moral issue bigger than you or I.)

[Coleus]

Already posted here:

 

"Stop Specter -Pro-Life Picket" NYC and Pro-Life Pray-In" in D.C.
Chris Slattery EMC NY | Nov. 11, 2004 | RepCath

Posted on 11/11/2004 8:40:05 PM EST by RepCath

[Coleus]

Join the urgent national Grassroots pro-life campaign to Block

anti-Life Senator Arlen Specter of PA from the Senate Judiciary Chair

through protest, petitions, emails, and faxes... at these brand new websites:

Print Flyer Here

Stop Specter Now.com

StopSpecter.Net

StopSpecter.org

NotSpecter.com/fax101

We Want a Strong Leader on the Senate Judiciary Committee - GOPUSA
"New Pro-Abortion Senate Judiciary Chair?" - Voices Heard
Arlen Specter MUST NOT become Chairman of the Judiciary Committee. - nospecter
Pull chair out from under RINO Arlen Specter - Conservative Petitions
 Petition to Republican Senators Opposing the Election of Senator Arlen Specter - AFA
THE FAIR JUDICIARY OATH - Coalition for Fair Judiciary

and

 

Join New York Pro-Life Leaders

 

The Rabbi Yehuda Levin & Chris Slattery

and many others for a

 

"Stop Specter -Pro-Life Picket"

Monday, November 15th

Outside Speaking event of Sen. Arlen Specter and Sen. Rick Santorum

at "The Monday Meeting"

Outside of Grand Hyatt Hotel

42nd St. (between-Park & Lex), Manhattan

from 5:15-6:30PM

 

and join an Interfaith Coalition of Pro-Life leaders

 

Rev. Pat Mahoney, Christian Defense Coalition,

Rev. Rob Schenck, Faith in Action

 Rabbi Yehuda Levin, Union of Orthodox Rabbis

Joe Starrs, American Life League

 Mary Ann Kreitzer, Catholic Media Coalition

Troy Newman, Operation Rescue West

Chris Slattery, Expectant Mother Care (for ID only)

and many others for a

 

"Stop Specter Pro-Life Pray-In"

Tuesday, November 16th

 

Join us as the Senate returns from recess
 1PM sharp at 1st St. and Constitution Ave.

 

[Some will attend outside press conference and pray & protest outside Senate Office Building and some will pray inside the office]

 

Senator Bill First

461 Dirksen Senate Office Building

Washington, DC

 

[Afternoon 2:30PM Strategy meeting at nearby location]

 

Call or email Chris Slattery for Free rides from NY and NJ,

Details or Information: @  SlatteryNY@aol.com  or

(914) 224-5773

 

1. CONTACT JUDICIARY COMMITTEE MEMBERS AND ASK THEM TO REJECT ARLEN SPECTER'S BID FOR THE CHAIRMANSHIP

 

Urge the Judiciary Committee members listed below to support Senator John Kyl of Arizona for Chairman, so that the anti-Specter forces are not divided among several of the other contenders thus giving Specter a better chance of winning. Kyl has the most seniority after Specter, excepting Grassley who doesn't want the job because he wants to maintain his position as chairman of the Finance Committee.

It is especially important that you contact the member if he is from your state!

Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), phone 202-224-5251, fax 202-224-6331
Charles Grassley (R-Iowa), phone 202-224-3744, fax 202-224-6020
Jon Kyl (R-Az.), phone 202-224-4521, fax 202-224-2207
 Mike DeWine (R-Ohio), phone 202-224-2315, fax 202-224-6519
Jeff Sessions (R-Al.), phone 202-224-4124, fax 202-224-3149
Lindsey Graham (R-SC), 202-224-5972, fax 202-224-3808
Larry Craig (R-Id.), phone 202-224-2752, fax 202-228-1067
Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.), phone 202-224-3521, fax 202-224-0103
John Cornyn (R-Tx.), phone 202-224-2934, fax 202-228-2856

Email address can be found by clicking here

2. CONTACT YOUR REPUBLICAN SENATOR(S)

If your U.S. Senator(s) in the new Congress is a Republican, contact his or her office immediately and let them know that you want them to fight against the nomination of Arlen Specter as Chairman of the Judiciary Committee. Let them know that if they don't vote against his nomination, you will not vote for them when it comes time for reelection. You can contact them by telephone through the Capitol Switchboard at 202-224-3121, and by email by clicking here

Newly elected Republican Senators may not yet be listed. Their contact information is as follows:

FL -- Mel Martinez, fax: 407-897-3130 or 305-897-8595,
GA -- Johnny Isakson, 404-705-8822, fax: 404-256-9085,
LA -- David Vitter, phone: 202-225-3015, fax: 202-225-0739,
NC -- Richard Burr, phone: 336-777-1170, fax: 336-773-0198,
OK -- Tom Coburn, phone: 918-684-4308, fax: 918-684-4309, 
SC -- Jim DeMint, phone: 866-546-2004 or 202-225-6030, fax: 202-226-1177
SD -- John Thune, phone: 605-221-1010, fax: 605-221-1021

3. CONTACT THE SENATE REPUBLICAN LEADERSHIP

Sen. Bill Frist (Tn.), majority leader. Phone: 202-224-3344, fax 202-228-1264.

Sen. Mitch McConnell ( Ky. ), majority whip. Phone 202-224-2541, fax 202-224-2499

Sen. Rick Santorum ( Pa. ), chairman, Senate Republican Conference. Phone 202-224-6324, fax 202-228-0604 or fax 202-228-4991

Sen. George Allen (VA ), chairman, National Republican Senatorial Committee. Phone 202-675-6000 (NRSC), fax 202-675-6058

Sen. Norm Coleman (Mn.), candidate to become the new chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee. Phone 202-224-5641, fax 202-224-1152

Sen. Elizabeth Dole (NC), candidate to become the new chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee. Phone 202-224-6342, fax 202-224-1100,

Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchinson (Tx.), vice-chairman, Senate Republican Conference. Phone 202-224-5922, fax 202-224-0776

4. Contact the Senate Judiciary Committee:

Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) 202-224-2934

Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT) (202) 224-5251

Senator Charles Grassley (R-IA) (202)224.3744 

Senator Jon Kyl (R-AZ) (202) 224-4521

Senator Mike DeWine (R-OH) (202) 224-2315
  
Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL)  (202) 224-4124

Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) (202) 224-5972

Senator Larry Craig (R-ID) 202/224-2752

Senator Saxby Chambliss (R-GA) (202) 224-3521

Senator Bill Frist, Phone 202 224-3344, Fax 202-228-1264

Senator Rick Santorum, Phone 202-224-6324, Fax 202-228-0604

Message for Republican Senators on the Senate Judiciary Committee:

Senator Arlen Specter is an unacceptable choice to chair the Senate Judiciary Committee.  Please do not vote to give him the Chairmanship.  Instead, please select a Senator who does not have a pro-abortion litmus test and one who will work cooperatively with President Bush.  Thank you.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[Grampa Dave]

Americans who voted for GW have a message to Specter and other rinos:

"We are watching you! Your life will become miserable if you screw around with our President!"

[narses]

http://stopspecter.savethegop.com/

Lest you think this is fiction - these signs started to appear in the Philadelphia area just before the election, paid for by Arlen’s former campaign manager. This particular picture originially appeared in the Philly Daily News.

[jocon307]

I see these efforts as important to send a message to President Bush, that he DOES have a mandate and that WE expect action, real, viable action, taken on the issues for which we gave him our votes.

He had four years to make nicey-nice with the dims, didn't work out. Now it is time to play some real hard-ball.

If anyone doesn't like the anti-Spector protests going on, wait until the anti-illegal immigrant amnesty stuff starts.

Bush will be done in four years time, no matter what happens. I don't know if Karl Rove, et al. go with him, or stay in the party working. If the former they can afford to ignore us. If the latter, they had better pay attention. After 30 years of struggle we have finally gained an advantage, we'd be idiots to back off now.

[DixieOklahoma]

Good God this is good news. Freep the hell out of him, get up in his pointed face. We have a rare chance here and we might not get it again treat him as the same vile as those Democrat baby killers. We must do all we can to stop the ilk of baby-killing politicians regardless of political affiliation.

[firebrand]

See you there, 1stFreedom!

[firebrand]

You might not have noticed you are on the site called Free Republic.

[Henchman]

OKDixie,thanks. Please consider an email your friends and relatives in NY, I did. Hope they can make it.

[Coleus]

But this is getting ridiculous. >>

We are freepers and we freep. Have you ever been on a freep, do you know what activism is? that's why many republicans lose elections, they can't get the grassroots going and many sit on their rears being "keyboard warriors" on the FR and other sites while the dems rally the troops.

www.freeper.org we're about activism.

[lainde]

bttt

[stopem]

And I say God Bless you all! I admire you all for being out there and taking a stand.
Let us know how it goes. Stay safe! As a Grandma for most part all I can do is be a "keyboard warrior" but just tell me how I can help to for the cause.

[firebrand]

Coleus and 1stFreedom: Where were you? Specter canceled out and never showed up. There were at least 20 of us there, greeting all the limousine RINOs as they went in.

TFine80: See? All we had to do was announce that we were protesting and the weasel stayed away.

[TFine80]

Interesting... well, I guess you did get under his skin.

No offense intended. I just worried the event had the potential to get out of control. Maybe I'm a bit weak-kneed.

But I'll be sure to attend the next nyc freep.

[firebrand]

The only people out of control were the officious Hyatt employees who insisted we were blocking the doors when an aircraft carrier could have gone through.

[mississippi red-neck]

Specter canceled out and never showed up.

Great job guys& gals. MRN

[firebrand]

Thanks, MRN. LaurenBaRecall and Tabi Katz were also there.

Kudos to you Mississippians on your marriage-amendment vote.

[ConservativeMan55]

A FREEPER NEEDS OUR HELP!

[Lauren BaRecall]

No offense intended. I just worried the event had the potential to get out of control. Maybe I'm a bit weak-kneed.

Since this was my very first FReep, I wasn't sure what to expect. Most people read our signs as they went their way. Some stopped to ask, "Who's Specter?" Or inquire as to the details. A couple of people made nasty comments, but nothing happened that would make me feel threatened.

I had a lot of fun meeting every one of my fellow protesters, and we shared some laughs, political info, and had some interesting discussions. Although I was a raw recruit, I felt very welcomed and comfortable, and one of the men even provided me with a "STOP SPECTER" sign.

I would definitely do it again, and hopefully I'll see you there! :o)

[Lauren BaRecall]

For the record, jocon307 was also there a FReepin'....

[jocon307]

"But I'll be sure to attend the next nyc freep."

That's a promise! In NYC we need all the freeping help we can get!

[sefarkas]

Since this was my very first FReep, I wasn't sure what to expect. Most people read our signs as they went their way. Some stopped to ask, "Who's Specter?"

I went to the Hyatt on 15Nov also. We had a nice little crowd and a few of the vets showed up with markers and poster boards. If that many folks are willing to show up to protest against a Senate chairmanship, imagine how angry the rank and file must be. Tying up phones and fax machines combined with visible protests WILL work to keep Specter out of the chairmanship. I agree, that our pre-announce presence kept Specter away. The police watched us closely for about 15 minutes until they decided that we were blocking the access to the 2 ATMs. I almost laughed out loud at how long it took them to come up with something so lame. We respectfully held our signs and answered a few random questions from the passers by. It was good to find this many good folks in the middle of the bluest of the blue cities.

[Lauren BaRecall]

You were on the other side of the main door. We were over there originally, but Chris Slattery asked us to cover the other side. I was glad to move because I was in front of a store, and didn't want to be called on blocking the door.

Sorry I missed you - I wanted to meet all the FReepers who came out.

The police watched us closely for about 15 minutes until they decided that we were blocking the access to the 2 ATMs. I almost laughed out loud at how long it took them to come up with something so lame.

LOL! We had a Policewoman on our side of the door, for a short while. She didn't bother us at all. Maybe it's because the Rabbi was nearby. :o) She seemed to watch the passers by, and just take in the general scene.

It was good to find this many good folks in the middle of the bluest of the blue cities.

I thought so, too. Maybe we can get something going. A little chapter to call our own....

[Taft in '52]

He is still a Republican after all

He's a Republican in the tradition of Senators like Jake "the Snake" Javits, Mac Matthias, and Lowell Weicker, and of Representatives like Ed Zschau (R-Calif.), who voted with Ted Kennedy and George McGovern on most issues.

[firebrand]

It was great to see you last night. Two threads now on FR about the nonappearance of Snarlin Arlen. Why is Santorum making statements about supporting him NOW? Did the New York RINOs with all their money get to him? The people who love to say they are fiscal conservatives but . . . all together now . . . SOCIAL LIBERALS!!!