Posted on 11/05/2004 8:05:42 AM PST by jebanks
hyperpoly8 sez: If you have other information, why not share it with NRA members, like myself, who would be very interested.
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OK - as a former NRA member who left the organization over this issue, I have two questions for you:
1) How does someone who signed the 1993 Clinton Gun Ban (you can look it up) get an A rating from the NRA?
2) How does NRA give Specter an A when Gun Owners of America gives him a C-? (BTW, Toomey got an A from GOA prior to the PA Senate primary, yet NRA endorsed Specter over Toomey)
Hope this helps - as someone who shares your passionate support of RKBA, I look forward to your response.
I've also pinged OKSooner, who has similar issues with the NRA with regards to the Coburn-Carson Senate race.
LOL!! I did exactly the same thing, here in Johnstown. That assbag Specter needs to be put in his place--big time! BTW, I was shocked to hear that my Cambria County, which has 2:1 registered Dems to Repubs, went for Bush. If anyone knows this area, it was nothing short of a miracle.
Go here to sign:
http://www.gopusa.com/activist/petitions/petition.php?petition=specter_chairman
and
National Right to Life
URGENT CONGRESSIONAL ALERT
Help Prevent Arlen Specter
From Becoming Chairman
of the Senate Judiciary Committee! Click link
ACTION ITEMS:
Please take these three actions immediately, and urge others to do the same:
1. If one or both of the U.S. senators who will represent your state in the new Congress is a Republican, contact his or her office immediately with this message: "Senator Specter must not become chairman of the Judiciary Committee. We urge Senator ______ to support any other Republican member of the Judiciary Committee to become chairman -- anyone but Arlen Specter." The offices of continuing senators can be contacted by telephone through the Capitol Switchboard at 202-224-3121, and appropriate e-mail messages can be sent to them by clicking on the "Elected Officials" tab at the top of this page. Please use both phone AND e-mail.
[NOTE: We will post contact information for the seven newly elected Republican senators on our website's Legislative Action Center as soon as it becomes available. For some of these, local campaign offices may still be open and taking messages. The seven newly elected Republican senators are Mel Martinez (Fl.), Johnny Isakson (Ga.), David Vitter (La.), Richard Burr (NC), Tom Coburn (Ok.), Jim DeMint (SC), and John Thune (SD).]
2. Call the office of Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tn.) at 202-224-3344, with a message along these lines: "Senator Arlen Specter MUST NOT become chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee. He would use that position to protect Roe v. Wade and to advance abortion and human cloning. We urge you to do everything in your power to ensure that a pro-life Republican becomes chairman, not Specter." You can also send Sen. Frist a fax at 202-228-1264, and send him an e-mail by clicking here.
[NOTE: The majority leader does NOT have the power to simply appoint a chairman for the Judiciary Committee. But Senator Frist can be influential in guiding the Republican senators collectively to solve this urgent problem.]
3. If you receive a response from the office of any Republican senator, or see a statement on the matter by your senator in the news media, please forward it to the Federal Legislation Department at National Right to Life at Legfederal@aol.com, or by fax to 202-347-3668, or by phone to 202-626-8820.
SPECIAL ACTION ITEM:
If your Republican senator is already a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, he can be especially influential in deciding who the new chairman will be. Please make every effort to encourage other constituents to contact the Republican committee members who are listed below. (NOTE: One or more NEW Republican senators may be appointed to the committee later this month, but it is not yet known who they will be.)
Orrin Hatch (Utah)
Charles Grassley (Iowa)
Jon Kyl (Az.)
Mike DeWine (Ohio)
Jeff Sessions (Al.)
Lindsey Graham (SC)
Larry Craig (Id.)
Saxby Chambliss (Ga.)
John Cornyn (Tx.)
and:
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.
Contact Information for Republican Senators on the Judiciary Committee:
Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) 202-224-2934, email:
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Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT) (202) 224-5251, email:
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Senator Charles Grassley (R-IA) (202)224.3744, email:
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Senator Jon Kyl (R-AZ) (202) 224-4521, email:
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Senator Mike DeWine (R-OH) (202) 224-2315, email:
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Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL) (202) 224-4124, email: http://sessions.senate.gov/contact.htm#form
Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) (202) 224-5972, email: http://lgraham.senate.gov/index.cfm?mode=contact
Senator Larry Craig (R-ID) 202/224-2752, email:
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Senator Saxby Chambliss (R-GA) (202) 224-3521,email: http://chambliss.senate.gov/Contact/default.cfm?pagemode=1
Senator Bill Frist, Phone 202 224-3344, Fax 202-228-1264 email: http://frist.senate.gov/index.cfm?FuseAction=AboutSenatorFrist.ContactForm
Senator Rick Santorum, Phone 202-224-6324, Fax 202-228-0604 e-mail:
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202 228-1264 (Washington)
615 352-9985 (NASHVILLE)
1. Go to www.fairjudiciary.com and sign up. Contribute if able. CJ Wm. Rehnquist is in our thoughts and prayers, and may have precious little time left this side of eternity. The Left has millions set aside for the imminent SCOTUS battle.
Source for context
2. Write to your Republican senators (if unlike me you have that luxury) about keeping Specter off the judiciary committee.
Here are the emails for the existing Senate (both Dems and Republicans) have fun.
editor@weeklystandard.com, beltwayboys@foxnews.com, tblankley@washingtontimes.com,jmccaslin@washingtontimes.com, gpierce@washingtontimes.com,jseper@washingtontimes.com, Templar119,malkin@comcast.net,letters@charleskrauthammer.com,ben@cspc.org
Contact Senator Specter:
Phone: 412-644-3400
Fax: 202-228-1229
E-mail: http://www.senate.gov/~specter/webform.htm
Contact Senator Santorum:
Phone: 412-562-0533
Fax: 412-562-4313
E-mail: http://www.senate.gov/~santorum/emailrjs.html
3. Lastly, send a respectful but passionate message to Senator Frist: http://frist.senate.gov/index.cfm?FuseAction=AboutSenatorFrist.ContactForm
Tell him you do not wish to see Arlen Specter ascend to Chairman of the Judiciary Committee.
Whereas, liberal Senator Arlen Specter is in line to be Chairman of the Judiciary Committee.
Whereas, liberal Arlen Specter has a stated litmus test against pro-abortion judges.
Whereas, liberal Arlen Specter has stated he will fight against conservative judges
Whereas, in the past liberal Arlen Specter has helped defeat great judges like Robert Bork,
Whereas, the Democrats have loaded the Judiciary Committee with extreme liberals such as Kennedy, Feinstein, Leahy, and Schumer.
Whereas, liberal Arlen Specter is in a position to turn our huge and historic election victory into a defeat by killing the nomination of all decent judges,
Be it resolved, that we will do whatever it takes to get liberal Arlen Specter off the Judiciary Committee
Dear Senator Frist,
After a long and contentious fight to retain the White House and expand our majority in both houses of Congress, I am extremely dismayed by comments made by Senator Specter regarding the President's right to choose his own candidates for the nation's judiciary. After several years of stonewalling on the part of Democrats in the Senate Judiciary Committee, it is incredibly distressing to see a member of the Republican party attempting to block excellent and qualified judges from the bench because of their conservative ideology.
I am a partisan. I will continue to work for our party's success because I believe that we embody the principles that are best for the nation. But make no mistake, conservative members of the Republican party will not continue to support the GOP if a very small minority of our Senators refuse to give a fair hearing to judges who agree with the party platform.
The last election should be a wakeup call to party leadership. The single most important issue to voters was "moral values". The party did a masterful job of getting Evangelical and other Conservative voters to the polls - voters who stayed home in 2000 - largely because of the moral issues facing the nation. It would be disastrous for the party and country if these voters felt betrayed and did not return to the polls in 2006 and 2008.
Renegade judges have been legislating from the bench for decades and have recently accelerated a dangerous experiment in social engineering - whether by redefining marriage, tinkering with the Pledge of Allegiance, or ruling against late term abortion restrictions. The American people recognize this judicial tyranny for what it is, and we look to you and other members of the Senate to put a stop to it.
Senator Specter and Democrats in the Senate say that the President should not nominate candidates with a conservative ideology because they are "outside the mainstream". If that is the case, most of the country must be outside of the mainstream. The vast majority of Americans support some limits on abortion, and clearly Tuesday's results in the states voting on Marriage Amendment should prove that this country will not accept gay marriage as a government supported institution.
In light of all of this, I am writing to you to urge you to take action to remove Senator Specter from the Judiciary Committee. The idea that this man, who won a tough primary fight only with the help of the White House, could be the next Chair of the Judiciary Committee is truly frightening. Please take steps to ensure that he does not aid liberals in continuing to block the President's agenda.
I understand that this move could lead to Mr. Specter defecting to the other side. In reality Senator, he made that defection long ago. Please do what is right and help President Bush and the majority of the American people in seating solid judges, without forcing them to pass a liberal litmus test. As our majority leader, we are counting on you.
you really don't know much about arlen specter's record do you? he would turn traitor to the PResident in a heartbeat and opened his yap to that effect the day AFTER conservatives elected W to the second term. He is beyond low and he is NOT guaranteed that chairmanship. My husband worked on the Senate Judiciary Committee and he knows exactly how untrustworthy ARLEEN is in this regard. as Laura Ingrahman has so eloquently stated, the people that came out and gave W the second term did so largely BC of the judicial nominees, to allow the LOSERS to dictate what sort of nominees get named is to spit on 'those that brung him', so to speak.
What did Specter actually object to in Bork. I have read some Bork and he does have one possible oddity. He believes not just in original intent of the Constitution, but also that the original intent was that all definitions used should be frozen in time as of the ratification. So in other words, where terms like "reasonable" or "cruel or unusual" appear, the original intent was that future generations should never re-evaluate what qualifies for those definitions. Is there historical evidence that this kind of freezing of general terms is in fact what the founding fathers wanted?
"cruel or unusual" => "cruel and unusual"
Well, please DO care, not just about whether you personally can go bang, but whether the lives of million of unborn will be allowed without restriction to go bang as well. Specter views Roe as a pillar. Well if it is, we need a Samson to shove that pillar down.
Call tim.....Frist's office 423 323 1252
Dan Rather just announced that Arlen Specter will be Bob Scheiffer's guest Sunday on Face The Nation. The topic, he smirked, judicial appointments.
Maybe, now the election is over he'll just switch to the other side (Dem) and call himself what he really is!
He needs to face a very angry nation, most of whom do not agree with the full scope of Roe.
I know plenty about Specter's lousy voting record.
I wish everyone success in this endeavor. I just don't think overturning the GOP seniority process will be successful.
Nor do I believe that it will ultimately be necessary. Specter will play ball and get the president's nominees through. Additionally, Frist is running for president; the surest way to kill his own candidacy is to not keep Senator Specter in line.
It went from bad to worse when I tried to bring it to the attention of the NRA. Turns out my district's election volunteer coordinator had split the state and gone to Iowa for the last few days before the election. Not that I mind him helping out with the Bush campaign, but it left everyone in Oklahoma's first congressional district without access to NRA resources, and the lies continued all the way thru election day.
An ugly scene all the way round, and it's still going on. Bottom line is I'm now a member of LEAA and GOA, but not NRA.
He's on the Armed Services Committee and he wastes more spending on contracts for outdated technology in his state than Soros will waste on electioneering until he dies. Then he gets on the Judiciary Committee and is reading from the liberal playbook. Pennsylvania, there are primaries for a reason!
hyperpoly8 -
Lets put it this way - Specter was NOT deserving on the NRA's endorsement. How can you justify supporting a signer of the Clinton Gun Ban over a candidate with a 100% pro-gun voting record over six years? You can't - but the NRA did.
One thing prompted the NRA to endorse Specter over Toomey: fear. Fear of what he would do as chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee if they didn't support him and he won. Principle got tossed in the trash can in pursuit of political expediency.
I take no pleasure in pointing this out to you, in fact it breaks my heart. I joined the NRA in the mid-to-late 90s because they were the only group to fight back against the criminal Clintonistas (the GOP sure didn't), and they were more responsible for Bush's election in 2000 than any other group.
That being said, this stinks. It is politics at its worst. The movement to remove Specter as SJC chair is a great one, for a number of reasons (pro-life and RKBA issues being the top two).
As far as the NRA goes, IMHO they have betrayed their principles this year, so I left and will be joining GOA instead.
Don't forget to call or email the RNC especially if you contributed money to them. Call or email Bill Frist. There are many things to do. Do NOT let Specter shut down our President's agenda.
paraphrase: "It said no more than an ink blot what those rights are."
This is anathema to the living constitution crowd, whether they be liberal, libertarian or conservative.
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