Posted on 04/25/2005 2:33:55 PM PDT by Bob J
Received via Email
Dear Friends,
We've heard some very good news from multiple sources in Washington, D.C. and Capitol Hill.
In response to the flood of emails, phone calls and FAXes that Senator Voinovich and his staff have received, the Senator is considering coming out once again back in support of John Bolton's confirmation as U.S. Ambassador to the UN. The Senator had no idea that there were so many Americans who supported Mr. Bolton's nomination, let alone even knew who he was.
We need just ONE MORE day of a heavy volume of emails, phone calls, and FAXes. If you can, ask a friend or family member to send just one email or make just one call. I NEED EVERYONE READING THIS TO TAKE PART IN THIS IMPORTANT DRILL...
Email Senator Voinovich's office and tell them you support John Bolton for the post of U.S. Ambassador to the UN and request that Senator Voinovich support Mr. Bolton's confirmation:
Aric_Newhouse@voinovich.senate.gov Marcie_Ridgway@voinovich.senate.gov Dana_smullen@voinovich.senate.gov Scott Milburn@voinovich.senate.gov Phil_Park@voinovich.senate.gov
Also... please call the Senator's office in addition to the emails and - again - indicate your support for Mr. Bolton's nomination:
PHONE: (202) 224-3353
If the above number is busy call: (513) 684-3265
And if that number is busy try: (216) 522.7095
And finally, if you have access to a FAX machine, or can send a FAX from your computer please send a FAX in support of Bolton to:
FAX: (202) 228-1382 ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... .....
The aspect of Voinovich's actions that offended us the most is that what Senator Voinovich did was to empower Barbara Boxer and John Kerry to accomplish a partisan political drill to embarrass the President.
Senator Boxer and Senator Kerry don't like John Bolton because they think he will be too tough on the United Nations - an institution they strongly support. Boxer and Kerry have been leading defenders of Kofi Annan, in spite of the mounting evidence of his corruption and hostility towards American interests.
Boxer and Kerry wanted to defeat Bolton for another reason - as part of their efforts to recast the recent presidential election results. The liberal Democrats on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee want to block Bush's judicial nominees, they want to see Republican House Leader Tom DeLay incarcerated, and they want to embarrass President Bush by defeating his tough, pro-American UN nominee.
But, shouldn't Senator Voinovich have been serving the interests of his constituents - the American people who want to see a strong, honest and forceful UN ambassador who will fight the corruption and Anti-Americanism that has infested the UN!?!?!
That's what this email/phone/FAX and radio ad campaign (to generate more emails and phone calls) has been all about - to get the Senator to see that he lost his way by serving the interests of people who simply are still bitter that they lost so badly in the 2004 elections.
Please read the article in the Sacramento Bee below. It explains how effective your efforts have been to date. Some of you have already called or emailed Senator Voinovich's office at least once. Others have contributed to our radio ad campaign -- you can hear the ad and also help us pay for more airtime by going to our website here:
http://www.MoveAmericaForward.org
These radio ads are getting the message out to more and more Ohioans and that will remind Senator Voinovich just who it is he is supposed to be representing and serving.
Since the Sacramento Bee link takes you to a site that requires registration I also have included excerpts of the article below...
http://www.sacbee.com/content/politics/story/12773871p-13624987c.html
Kaloogian targets fellow Republican
Ex-state legislator attacks Ohio Sen. Voinovoich over the delay on Bolton. ...
Within a couple of hours of Voinovich's action Tuesday, Move America Forward announced on its Web site and in faxes to news organizations that it would target Voinovich for his "obstructionist conduct." On Thursday, the day the ads began running, Voinovich's office phones were jammed with callers and computer e-mail in-baskets were clogged with messages related to the Bolton confirmation. It was no better Friday.
"The telephone lines are consistently busy," said Voinovich spokeswoman Marcie Ridgway. "And we're getting lots of e-mails because they posted our e-mail addresses on their Web site."
Kaloogian, who used the talk-radio circuit to talk up the recall against Davis, thinks the Voinovich campaign is a big boost to an organization that, for the most part, has gained only a smattering of attention from its Sacramento-area events and its rebuttals last summer to filmmaker Michael Moore.
"This seems to be the time when people in Washington, D.C., have taken notice of what we're doing," Kaloogian said.
Kaloogian's co-chair is KSFO-San Francisco radio talk show host Melanie Morgan, who said the initial radio buy in Ohio was small but more stations will be added over the next couple of weeks as contributions arrive.
"This is pretty big," she said.
He's up in 2006. Looks like the WH is going to campaign on his behalf, however, in exchange for the Bolton vote.
Voinovich is a dweeb, plain and simple. I have had numerous occassions to either interview him or listen to his speech to a group of voters. He talks conservative and then votes less so. And he was wrong, wrong, wrong on the tax cuts he oppossed a couple of years ago. The economy had been hit with 2 body blows, the tech bubble in March 2000 and then 9/11. The tax cuts helped lift us out of that. Yes, we have big deficits. But imagaine what those would be if the economy was still sputtering. The tax cuts spurred the economy which increased revenues. The deficits are a matter of increased security spending, the war, and TOO MUCH Congressional discretionary spending.
Back to the dweeb. What has he done substantively in the Senate? Nada. He is just taking up space. Oh and speaking of spending. When Mayor of Cleveland in the 80's he was ALWAYS whining about the lack of Federal Funds coming into his city.
The BASE must continue to email, call and tell the RINO types that we, the BASE put them into office in the first place. Not the NY Times, liberal Dems, the UN or Europe! I have done so to not only the RINO's but also the Leadership , the WH and even some media outlets. It is not only Bolton, but the jurists, the issue of illegal immigration and of course, SS reform and Tax Reform. Unless the BASE continues to do so, the WH and the RINO's will compromise away the majority. That must not happen. And the President is not protected from this onslaught. He needs calls, emails to stop acting like a RINO himself.
LOL!!
LOL!!
Real title of this article should be "Voinovich taking meds and reading mail again."
Who brung this idiot to the danz?
Would you happen to know if Voinovich ever ran as a Democrat? I live in Ohio (obviously) and an acquaintance claims V was once a Dem.
I can't find any confirmation of that and think she is mistaken.
Voinovich just got elected again so he will be around for quite some time....unless we recall him
I don't trust George Voinovich and it is because I am his contituent and he has taught me not to trust him.
I heard this is really about local politics. Voinivich was trying to get the adminstrations attention for local issues - - NASA and Navy finance.
He was busy beating his mule. Don't hold it against him.
I don't know much about Voinovich to be sure if he's a Republican In Name Only [RINO], but he needs a good spanking regardless of what he is. FRegards....
Excellent post! =]
Boxer and Kerry, two idiots who should be voted out of office!
Agreed. What an empty, unprincipled suit. Amazing....
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It is not that amazing. Lots of politicians are empty suits. As I wrote him when I saw his disgusting performance that day, what is amazing is that anyone could become a US Senator and not understand the basic rule that when in doubt YOU BELIEVE THE GUYS ON YOUR TEAM AND NOT YOUR OPPONENTS.
How in the world could he be so DUMB as to be surprised that this caused him to get so many faxes, e-mails etc. Why is he so dumb as to take the word of a known plagarists like Biden over other GOP Senators?
At some level, I respect a good ol' hard core liberal. At least they have principles. When dealing with a liberal, you know where they are coming from. Lord only knows what a moderate is thinking from second to second.A moderate is only out to please others. Some of the others some of the time, other of the others other times. They end up pleasing no one and only proving what total slime-balls they are. About everything. To everyone. In every case.
Stop the grandstanding .... "We need a TOUGH man at the U.N. not just another wussy Albright-less."
Voinovich's making a run for Chafee's title of "Most Recognizable RINO."
Gotta get down to it
RINOs have let Bolton down
Should have gone through long ago.
The Democrats knew this
and still kept putzing around
But George didn’t seem to know.
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