Posted on 06/26/2007 9:20:00 AM PDT by MplsSteve
I just got off the phone with someone at Norm Coleman's office. I told them that I was a constituent as well as financial supporter.
I asked if they knew how the Senator was planning on voting.
I was informed that the Senator will vote for cloture today because he feels the 24 amendments should be voted upon.
As for final passage of the bill, I was told that he's still undecided.
I politely informed the staff person that I wasn't sure that I'd be around in 2008 (financially and volunteer-wise) if the Senator votes for cloture.
She sounded mildly exasperated when I said that. I'm sure her office has been taking a lot of calls from perturbed constituents. Apparently, it's not working out too well as Coleman will vote for cloture.
Comments or opinions - anyone?
I already knew he was a loser in the LOTT mode.
RINO b@stard.
Coleman's toast.
Thanks for your good work, at least. They need to be told that their funding is going to be cut off by former supporters.
Thus ends his career.
Colman needs to lose his seat when he’s up for re-election. American people are taking names...
If he votes YES, vote him out.
Actively support any candidate who opposes him and boycott his corporate sponsors.
Here are the top contributors:
NORM COLEMAN: CAREER PROFILE (SINCE 2002)
Top Contributors
1 Target Corp $167,350
2 UnitedHealth Group $75,915
3 3M Co $57,450
4 Wells Fargo $41,350
5 Xcel Energy $38,050
6 Northwest Airlines $32,690
7 US Bancorp $32,350
8 General Mills $30,500
9 Cargill Inc $30,450
10 Ecolab Inc $30,000
11 Blue Cross/Blue Shield $27,780
12 Dorsey & Whitney $27,700
13 Njk Holding Corp $26,000
14 Qwest Communications $24,000
15 Blank Rome LLP $23,500
16 Medtronic Inc $23,421
17 RBC Financial Group $22,875
18 Florida Power & Light $22,500
19 Contran Corp $21,825
20 National Assn of Broadcasters $21,225
Target (tarzhey, excusez moi) is #1. Copy their CEO on emails to Norm advising of your intentions to shop elsewhere.
These bozos don’t care about us, just money & power. Deny them both.
they admitted that on Laura’s show. he’s voting for amnesty.
Cloture=Amnesty
“Damned if you do; damned if you don’t.”
You sound like a reasoned and polite person. I don't think I would have been so tempered. Unfortunately Clinton and Schumer are my representative, so I haven't bothered to call.
I would call this schmucks office and tell his staff that they can whisper in his ear that he’s TOAST and to start looking for his next private sector job. It’s past time to beat around the bush. Tell her NO DONATIONS AND NO CAMPAIGN WORKERS. He can send her to walk the streets and beg!
Lose his seat to Al Franken?
Which is stupid because any amendments voted into the bill in order to get a few "Yay" votes now will be stripped from the bill in conference, after which there can't be a filibuster so the few votes so purchased can go back to being "Nay" votes. Lott screwed up and let the strategy slip out of his loose lips the other day.
It's a really slimy way of bending around the threatened filibuster. Sure wish Frist were as capable a weasel as Reid is. We could have gotten lots of things done.
How did you get that list? Can they be found for all the critters?
Thanks.
Yeah, dittos for me. My pair are Kyl and McQueeg.
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On this matter, we would have been as well off as if Walter F. Mondale had returned to the Senate. I suspect people in MN are strongly for amnesty. They see it as part of the continuing civil rights movement identified with Minnesotans HHH, Mondale, and many others.
The amendment thing is a face-saving tactic. He wants amnesty, or at the least caved to Bush’s strong-arming. He’ll vote against the passage of the bill knowing full well it’s a lock with or without him. A vote for cloture is a vote for amnesty, don’t forget it. Remembsr this whsn he asks for your vote in 2008.
I wish he would vote against Cloture today, but the key is the Cloture vote to end debate and proceed to a final vote.
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