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Most emails to Congress are against illegal immigrants
Congressional Website ^ | 4/06/06

Posted on 04/06/2006 9:04:56 PM PDT by texas_mrs

Alot of Americans are ticked off with their leaders today. I havent come across many who are for it.


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To: ConservativeMind

I didn't click on it but if it was legitimate it would be:

Congress.gov


21 posted on 04/06/2006 9:30:42 PM PDT by dalereed
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To: ConservativeMind

No, but when you send a letter thru Congress.org, it goes to your congresscritter. Of those who send a letter to their congressman thru congress.org, it is currently 80% for border security and reducing immigration, and 20% for amnesty and increasing legal immigration. I have little doubt that it is probably pretty close to the same averages thru any such service. How effective it is, I cannot say, but I think if I were a congressman, I would take notice of the percentages, that is unless I had already pillaged and looted and been paid off enough that I was ready to get sent home.


22 posted on 04/06/2006 9:33:19 PM PDT by AnnoyedOne
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To: texas_mrs

I am most of the conservative Kansans have both e-mailed and called Brownback. Unfortunately, he doesn't give a rat's pootie as to what the people think who worked and donated to get him into office.


23 posted on 04/06/2006 9:42:23 PM PDT by GarySpFc (Jesus on Immigration, John 10:1)
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To: Terpfen
They do care about telephone calls.

Yes, they do. I called my Senator this evening, his voice mail box is full.

24 posted on 04/06/2006 9:54:40 PM PDT by HiJinx (~ www.proudpatriots.org ~ Serving Those Who Serve Us ~ Operation Easter/Passover ~)
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To: texas_mrs

Dear Senator,

WHAT PART OF "NO AMNESTY" DOES OUR SENATE LEADERSHIP NOT UNDERSTAND?
Republicans by vast margins oppose amnesty. So, why are Senators selling out our country?

Please vote "NO" on the amnesty provisons in the immigration bill and support a filibuster. NO BILL is better than a bill that rewards lawbreaking and entering.

This 5-year 'compromise' amnesty plan is idiotic.

Just as lax border enforcement gives the counterfeiters
a living making fake social security cards, now the amnesty will give the fraudsters a living making fake utility bills from 2000.
ITS THE STUPIDEST OF MANY STUPID IDEAS FROM DC THAT I'VE HEARD.

Immigration problem can be solved if DC just simply makes the decision to enforce the law. Support border security, internal enforcement of immigration law, and use of state and local resources to deport illegal immigrants; oppose chain immigration, the 'hidden' amnesties in immigration law, and most of all, any and all amnesty provisions.

Please support Kyl-Cornyn and declare opposition to any and all amnesty, whether from Sen Hagel, or McCain-Kennedy, or Sen Spectre. that would be helpful.


25 posted on 04/06/2006 10:08:13 PM PDT by WOSG (http://freedomstruth.blogspot.com/)
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To: dalereed

Here is email/webform contact information for every Senator ...

http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm

Just say NO to amnesty.


26 posted on 04/06/2006 10:09:44 PM PDT by WOSG (http://freedomstruth.blogspot.com/)
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To: texas_mrs

another way to contact Congress:

http://www.numbersusa.com/faxcenter?action=preview&ID=4835


27 posted on 04/06/2006 10:11:36 PM PDT by WOSG (http://freedomstruth.blogspot.com/)
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To: Terpfen

I am curious: Why don't they care about emails?

I have called them as well because I am livid about the way they keep ignoring we who pay all the bills and catering to the people who are bleeding us dry -- and aren't even citizens, to boot!


28 posted on 04/06/2006 10:12:58 PM PDT by KittyKares
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To: Mr. Mojo
"Those Mecha/Aztlan types bear a striking resemblance to the Palestinian mobs.

Seems only the suicide belts are missing."

Uncanny, ain't it??

California is doomed to be a future battleground -- literally.

29 posted on 04/06/2006 10:17:47 PM PDT by Liberator
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To: KittyKares

Because they're oftentimes generated at an anonymous whim, or are the preferred form of mass-mailing efforts. They're free, which means the sender only sacrificed the few seconds it took to type some incoherent, illegible babble about some issue, and you can't emphasize anything over email.

Meanwhile, with a phone call, you not only tie up a staffer, but the staffer gets an earful of a living, breathing person who decided an issue was important enough to take the time out of his day to call, pay long distance, wait on hold, and finally yell at someone.

Just like how a boss' reprimand has more effect when done verbally, so too does a voter complaining to a Congressthing.


30 posted on 04/06/2006 10:23:44 PM PDT by Terpfen (72-25: The Democrats mounted a failibuster!)
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To: Terpfen

Thank you. That makes sense.


31 posted on 04/06/2006 10:28:21 PM PDT by KittyKares
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To: SUSSA
Who's screwing who?

32 posted on 04/06/2006 10:51:33 PM PDT by Dallas59 (MOHAMMED LIED-PEOPLE DIED)
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To: WOSG
WHAT PART OF "NO AMNESTY" DOES OUR SENATE LEADERSHIP NOT UNDERSTAND?

They don't understand the "NO" part. But, take heart. At least they understand the OTHER half of it. And after all, isn't "compromise" what it's all about?

So, we wanted "NO AMNESTY", and we walk away with HALF of what we wanted. I'd call that a good compromise, wouldn't you?

Gag....

33 posted on 04/06/2006 11:20:26 PM PDT by Don Joe (We've traded the Rule of Law for the Law of Rule.)
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To: Terpfen
Meanwhile, with a phone call, you not only tie up a staffer, but the staffer gets an earful of a living, breathing person who decided an issue was important enough to take the time out of his day to call, pay long distance, wait on hold, and finally yell at someone.

During the Impeachment fiasco, I did a lot of calling to my "critters" in DC and Atlanta.

I kept hearing that for every telephone call they get, they estimate there are about 300 other people who care about as passionately about a given issue, but, for whatever reason, can't manage to call- too shy, too cheap, can't find the time, etc.

So view your call as having a 300:1 multiplyer.

34 posted on 04/07/2006 2:50:12 AM PDT by backhoe (Just an Old Keyboard Cowboy, Ridin' the Trakball into the Dawn of Information)
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To: WOSG; onyx

Great link WSOG


35 posted on 04/07/2006 7:33:15 AM PDT by wardaddy (i'm thinking...)
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To: Don Joe

"So, we wanted "NO AMNESTY", and we walk away with HALF of what we wanted. I'd call that a good compromise, wouldn't you?"

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LOL... I have to laugh at that, because with this dumb compromise I almost think that's the way they are thinking these days.

Its so absurd its Seinfeldesque.


36 posted on 04/07/2006 12:49:26 PM PDT by WOSG (http://freedomstruth.blogspot.com/)
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To: WOSG

LOL, yeah his post struck me the same way. :)

BTW, I was watching CNBC yesterday and they had some "expert economist" as a guest. They were discussing the compromise (sell-out) that had come up. When he was asked about whether Americans should be bothered about it, he went into a long, convoluted explanation as to why immigrants were not REALLY depressing our wage scales. Then not two minutes later, she asked him how he thought the business community would respond to the compromise about more visas and he said "Business will love this, because it helps them to keep labor costs down".

Say WHAT?!?! How is it keeping labor costs down and not suppressing workers wages? Most blatant example of speaking with a forked tongue I ever saw.


37 posted on 04/07/2006 3:26:48 PM PDT by AnnoyedOne
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To: AnnoyedOne
Say WHAT?!?! How is it keeping labor costs down and not suppressing workers wages?

It's simple. When your job has been lost, it's no longer a question of comparative wages. On a spreadsheet, your "wages" would be NULL, thus invalidating the calculations.

See how simple it is when you look at it "correctly"?

(Wake me up when this nightmare is over...)

38 posted on 04/07/2006 5:24:49 PM PDT by Don Joe (We've traded the Rule of Law for the Law of Rule.)
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To: AnnoyedOne
One of Bush's economic spokesman did the same thing. Eventually she said we need to "focus on education" to solve any wage problems.

Great way to pass the buck on into infinity because we are paying for the primary, secondary, and college education of illegals with federal, state, and local tax money. While at the same time outsourcing American jobs overseas. While at the same time importing highly educated Asians for work "Americans don't want to do" such as engineering and computer science.

39 posted on 04/07/2006 6:47:00 PM PDT by Robertsll
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To: Don Joe
(Wake me up when this nightmare is over...)

Likewise.

40 posted on 04/07/2006 6:47:43 PM PDT by Robertsll
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