[editor-surveyor]

Anyone but Spector!

Time for action.

[matchwood]

Over 159,000,000 Americans disagree with Specter; does that guy read the papers?

P.S. Are we sure of the spelling - maybe it should be "Spector."

[snooker]

ALERT! ALERT! ALERT!
MSM abortion trap ahead
Suggest stand down

[1Old Pro]

He should be removed from the judiciary committee and replaced by Santorum.

[davidosborne]

I just got off the phone with Sen. Frists office and expressed my concern in this matter. We MUST get Sen. Specter removed from the Judiciary Committee....

[dware]

Perhaps a good start would be getting together a loose-knit group or 'committee' to get out the vote so to speak here on FR. There could be 5 or 6 folks (regulars) whose job would be to champion this cause and get people rallied to make contact here on FR and in society.

Just a thought.

[votelife]

called my Senators yesterday (shelby and sessions)

[SolomoninSouthDakota]

My suggestion to those motivated to write congressmen or the President: Keep it short and businesslike. Rather than spending the time to develop a treatise with great arguments etc., use the time to get a couple of friends to write as well. These guys have just had a reminder that this is a democracy and they have it clear in their mind now who was in the majority of this democracy!

[snopercod]

I just called Frist's office in Tennessee in opposition to Specter chairing the Judiciary Committee.

The secretary told me they had been getting a lot of calls opposing Specter, but there was nothing that Frist could do. The Rules of the Senate...blahblahblah...

[UpInArms]

The RP just called and asked for money. I said I would give if Spector was barred from the Judicial Committee.

[davidosborne]

SPECTER COMMENTS ON THE JUDICIAL CONFIRMATION PROCESS Washington, D.C. - Senator Arlen Specter (R-PA) made the following comments today on the judicial confirmation process. “Contrary to press accounts, I did not warn the President about anything and was very respectful of his Constitutional authority on the appointment of federal judges. “As the record shows, I have supported every one of President Bush’s nominees in the Judiciary Committee and on the Senate floor. I have never and would never apply any litmus test on the abortion issue and, as the record shows, I have voted to confirm Chief Justice Rehnquist, Justice O’Connor, and Justice Kennedy and led the fight to confirm Justice Thomas. “I have already sponsored a protocol calling for a Judiciary Committee hearing within thirty days of a nomination, a vote out of Committee thirty days later, and floor action thirty days after that. I am committed to such prompt action by the Committee on all of President Bush’s nominees. “In light of the repeated filibusters by the Democrats in the last Senate session, I am concerned about a potential repetition of such filibusters. I expect to work well with President Bush in the judicial confirmation process in the years ahead.” In other words if The DEMOCRATS dont like the JUDGE then "Chairman" Specter will block the nomination in order to avoid the "filibuster"... I say filibuster for the next four years if thats what it takes to get a vote on President Bush's nominations ..

[Spiff]

Another article about Specter's possible appointment to Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee and why that would be a bad thing. This one is from 26 December 2003 and it was in the Washington Times:

Conservatives work to deflect Specter

By Charles Hurt
THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Sen. Arlen Specter's prospects of becoming chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee if he wins a fourth Senate term in Pennsylvania is making him a target of some conservatives.

"You put a person like that in charge of the Judiciary Committee, and we won't see many of President Bush's nominees get through," says Connie Mackey of the Family Research Council. "With regard to social issues, he is a poster child of NARAL and NOW."

NARAL Pro-Choice America, formerly the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League, and the National Organization for Women are two leading abortion-rights groups and vigorously lobby the Judiciary Committee to defeat conservative judicial nominees.

Because of Republican-imposed term limits on chairmanships, Sen. Orrin G. Hatch of Utah is expected to relinquish his committee position after the 2004 elections. Based on seniority, Mr. Specter is the next Republican in line. He will inherit a deeply divided committee, which is the venue of some of the Senate's most bitter, partisan fights over issues such as abortion and homosexual "marriage."

Mr. Specter, who favors abortion rights, publicly has expressed reservations about several of Mr. Bush's judicial nominees and, according to some Republicans, has worked behind the scenes to block others. And some Republicans never have forgiven Mr. Specter for his opposition to President Reagan's nomination of Judge Robert Bork to the Supreme Court.

"It will be just awful," says one Republican member of the Judiciary Committee. "Arlen will go off with [Democrats´] agenda more often than he'll go with ours. Many of President Bush's nominees just won't get through."

It's an issue that Mr. Specter's Republican primary opponent, Rep. Patrick J. Toomey, has seized on to raise money outside of Pennsylvania.

"Republicans recognize that Arlen Specter has spent his career obstructing everything Republicans stand for," Mr. Toomey said last week on his way to a fund-raiser in New York City. "But the most palpable fear among Republicans is what would happen if Arlen Specter is re-elected and becomes the next chairman of the Judiciary Committee. It's a frightening prospect."

Sen. Charles E. Schumer, a Democrat on the Judiciary Committee from New York, last summer suggested that Mr. Bush break the impasse over his judicial nominations by nominating Mr. Specter to the federal courts. Mr. Specter, he said, would get unanimous support from Democrats.

Ralph G. Neas, president of the liberal People for the American Way, says Mr. Specter once was known as an "independent Republican," but in recent years has become "an increasingly reliable vote for Republicans." Asked whether his group would support a Specter nomination, Mr. Neas paused, and declined to say.

"Senator Specter is not here to be a rubber stamp," Specter spokesman Bill Reynolds says. "He's going to look at the record of each nominee."

But he noted that Mr. Specter has not cast a vote against a single Bush nominee.

"There's a lot of rhetoric out there," Mr. Reynolds says. "But just look at what President Bush has to say about Senator Specter."

Mr. Bush, who has named Mr. Specter as one of the state chairmen for his re-election campaign, said recently: "I look forward to working with him as the chairman of the Judiciary Committee in the United States Senate to make sure my judges get through and appointed."

Republican strategists say Mr. Bush doesn't want to upset what in the past has been a comfortable Republican seat. In 1998, Mr. Specter won re-election with 61 percent of the vote — much of that support coming from Democrats and independents supportive of abortion rights. Pennsylvania casts 21 votes in the Electoral College, and only four states have greater weight there.

Some Republican strategists say a liberal Republican such as Mr. Specter, who appeals to Democrats and others, can attract independents and Democrats to the Republican ticket, while a conservative Republican such as Mr. Toomey cannot.

[Agitate]

From hoystory.blogspot.com:
Reduce the GOP Senate majority: Barring any unexpected, last-minute developments, the GOP will have a 55-44-1 majority in Congress' upper chamber. After President Bush and Vice President Cheney helped Pennsylvania's senior Senator Arlen Specter fend off a strong primary challenge from conservative Pat Toomey, Specter has decided to bite the hand that feeds him.

Specter, as presumptive chairman of the powerful Senate Judiciary Committee, suggested that he would block any Bush nominee to the Supreme Court who opposed abortion rights. Reiterating his position that a woman's right to choose is "inviolate," he said overturning Roe v. Wade today would be akin to trying to reverse Brown v. Board of Education, the court's 1954 landmark desegregation decision.

Barring unforeseen GOP objections, Specter, 74, should assume the committee chairmanship in January. He also sent an unsubtle message to the White House that he expects nominees for the federal bench to be of the highest caliber, and took a critical swipe at the stature of the current court. [emphasis added]

Well, I think that the GOP should object. Specter can switch parties if he pleases -- we don't need him. Republicans can't accept a Pat Leahy-type obstructionist on the judiciary committee.

GOP chairman Bill Frist can be contacted at (202) 224-3344 or bill.frist@frist.senate.gov. Let him know how you feel about Sen. Specter.

Frist fax:
202 228-1264 (DC FAX)
615 352-9985 (NASHVILLE)
202-224-3344 (DC OFFICE)



We can't let Spector get away with this. Please call and/or write Senator Frist. If we should contact someone else as well, please post that information, thank you!

See also:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1271129/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1271211/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1270529/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1270632/posts

[familyop]

Here's some news.

Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) legacy may be chair of Judiciary Committee
Various in Iowa. Petitions under way.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1270628/posts

Chuck Grassley On the Issues
http://www.ontheissues.org/Senate/Chuck_Grassley.htm

[George Frm Br00klyn Park]

{name here}, PLEASE SAY NO to "Scottish Law" Specter for Judiciary Chairman. LOUDLY please. We NEED U.S. of A. Constitutional judges. NOTHING else will do.

I think{?} Specter may be setting up a "straw man" arguement with his "no anti-abortion judges" statement in order to intimidate those who would keep his "Scottish Law" ass out of that seat. Peace and love, George.
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Guys,Above is an e-mail I sent to the President, Frist, and other Republican leaders I found at The Republican leadership page. Specter is as slimey as they come. Peace and love, George.

[vannrox]

WE ONLY HAVE TWO YEARS.

We cannot take any chances. We must not take the Risk that he will pull a Jeffords. He was lucky to get Bush's endorsement and that is the only thing that enabled him to win back his Pennsylvania seat. A big mistake as we all know. But now action must be taken.

I am so dissapointed in the Republicans for not being tough and creative and persistant...with our liberties and our Conservative values.

We have a very short window to erase decades of Socialism and encroaching Communism. We have to take this oportunity and act on it. No excuses are permitted. You are either with us or you are against us. PERIOD!

[amdgmary]

Ping on Spector report

[Agitate]

Stop Specter Bump

[Agitate]

Looks like our voices are being heard!
The people rule!

Conservative wing raises fuss over Specter's views
Carl Hulse, New York Times
November 6, 2004
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Angry conservatives flooded Senate phone and fax lines Friday demanding that Republicans prevent Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., from presiding over the Judiciary Committee for saying two days earlier that judicial nominees who strongly oppose abortion might be rejected.

Republican senators and their aides, speaking privately for the most part, said the uproar posed an impediment for Specter, who is in line to succeed chairman Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, atop the committee that examines judicial nominees. It was likely that he would still get the post, they said, but not certain. "He is not out of the woods," said one aide.
Stop Specter!


Offices of Senator Frist:

Washington, D.C. Office of Senator Bill Frist, M.D. 461 Dirksen Senate Office Building Washington, DC 20510 202-224-3344 202-228-1264 (fax)	Nashville 28 White Bridge Road Suite 211 Nashville, TN 37205 615-352-941 615-352-9985 (fax)
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See also:
United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary
Find & Write your Senators Here
Senator Frist Web Form

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