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Non-Profits Tell Senate to 'Keep Off the Grassroots'
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| March 03, 2006
| Susan Jones
Posted on 03/03/2006 12:51:19 PM PST by 300magnum
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posted on
03/03/2006 12:51:22 PM PST
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300magnum
To: 300magnum
What part of the phrase "free speech" do these people not understand?
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posted on
03/03/2006 12:54:33 PM PST
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(Islam Factoid:After forcing young girls to watch his men execute their fathers, Muhammad raped them.)
To: 300magnum
Reason number 45,209 to get rid of the current tax code: unconstitutional limitations on free speech of people in non-profit groups
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posted on
03/03/2006 12:55:59 PM PST
by
KarlInOhio
(Next Olympics I want wide track bobsledding. Four sleds on the track at once - like Ben Hur on ice.)
To: 300magnum
Maybe it's the Senate's oblique way of saying they're fed up with a thousand copies of the same form email or fax coming from some non-profit with a bullhorn.
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posted on
03/03/2006 12:56:13 PM PST
by
jiggyboy
(Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
To: 300magnum
They don't want to hear from American citizens because they really don't give a crap what we think anyway.
This is total bullsh*t. I say if they fix it where they can't hear us then we don't vote period...for them or anyone else.
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posted on
03/03/2006 12:58:07 PM PST
by
sheana
To: 300magnum
I'm sure that a lot of government officials, elected, appointed and hired, would like to abolish the first amendment. Looks as if some are trying harder than others.
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posted on
03/03/2006 12:58:51 PM PST
by
FreePaul
To: 300magnum
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posted on
03/03/2006 12:59:31 PM PST
by
SJSAMPLE
To: jiggyboy
"For example, if we wanted to alert you to gun ban that is moving in our nation's capital, we could first have to tell [Congress] about what we're planning to do, who we're planning to alert (that is, grassroots folks like yourself), how much money we plan to spend, etc.... In effect, we would end up alerting Sarah Brady every time we plan to wage a grassroots campaign in opposition to gun control." Sounds like there's more to it.
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posted on
03/03/2006 12:59:43 PM PST
by
300magnum
(We know that if evil is not confronted, it gains in strength and audacity, and returns to strike us)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
What part of the phrase "free speech" do these people not understand? They understand that it doesn't put money directly in their pockets.
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posted on
03/03/2006 1:01:55 PM PST
by
PsyOp
(The commonwealth is theirs who hold the arms.... - Aristotle.)
To: jiggyboy
...they're fed up with a thousand copies of the same form email or fax coming from some non-profit with a bullhorn.More likely they are fed up with the "little people" trying to get their attention when the lobbyists are dangling big bucks in their faces. That kind of interference can be very annoying. We had an outstanding example of that in the Texas legislature last year. I doubt that it is any different in any other legislative body.
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posted on
03/03/2006 1:03:35 PM PST
by
FreePaul
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To: jiggyboy
My favorite was always the "cut taxes cut wasteful spending" barrage right around April 15th.
How much money does a ream of fax paper cost? Figure a US Senate office goes through 2-3 on a SLOW day with 4-5 reams, just for faxes, on a busy lobbying day. How much money would the groups have saved Congress by simply sending one email with lots of signatures?
This Amendment is unconstitutional.
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posted on
03/03/2006 1:47:50 PM PST
by
brothers4thID
(Being lectured by Ted Kennedy on ethics is not unlike being lectured on dating protocol by Ted Bundy)
To: FreePaul
Whole Bill-of-Rights thing kind of gets in the way of Socialism, eh.
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posted on
03/03/2006 2:41:49 PM PST
by
CowboyJay
(Rough Riders! Tancredo '08)
To: KarlInOhio
Wow.. that's a hypocritical statement if I ever heard one.
If you don't want to be stifled in your speech than don't be a non profit.
Nobody forces you to be a non-profit.
So you just gave us the #1 excuse of all liberals.
I'm going to do it the way I want and then whine about it when I don't get everything I want.
To: CowboyJay
Whole Bill-of-Rights thing kind of gets in the way...Seems that way but not limited to socialism. Too many politicians feel that they have an "entitlement" to their elected office and will do anything to stifle competition. When free speech applies only to the office holders we no longer have freedom. That seems to be the goal of some office holders.
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posted on
03/03/2006 3:26:04 PM PST
by
FreePaul
To: brothers4thID
How many senate offices receive paper faxes. Would be interesting to know. If they have any substantial number they should receive them electronically. That way they can be filed and/or distributed easily.
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posted on
03/03/2006 3:30:08 PM PST
by
FreePaul
To: 300magnum
Who were the 10 who voted against the First Amendment?
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posted on
03/03/2006 3:40:59 PM PST
by
SUSSA
To: SJSAMPLE
Thanks a lot, Jorge :( This bil is sponsored by 2 rats "Lieberman-Levin Amendment." It has no chance of passing the GOP controlled Senate or House and it will never see Dubya's desk. Thank God Republicans are in control.
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posted on
03/03/2006 7:19:35 PM PST
by
Once-Ler
(The rat 06 election platform will be a promise to impeach the President if they win.)
To: Once-Ler
I say "thanks" to him because it was his signature that emboldened further restrictions of our constitutional freedoms.
If, by some chance, it passes the GOP and makes it onto Jorge's desk, will you be worried?
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posted on
03/04/2006 10:37:09 AM PST
by
SJSAMPLE
To: SJSAMPLE
I say "thanks" to him because it was his signature that emboldened further restrictions of our constitutional freedoms. Right. Before Dubya came along we were all following the letter of the Constitution.
If, by some chance, it passes the GOP and makes it onto Jorge's desk, will you be worried?
Yes because it will mean hell froze over. Your first sentence shows you hate Dubya as much as the rats. Your second shows you are a kook.
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posted on
03/04/2006 6:31:10 PM PST
by
Once-Ler
(The rat 06 election platform will be a promise to impeach the President if they win.)
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