Posted on 04/04/2008 9:58:53 AM PDT by Liz
Faxes and phone calls to New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Alaska during Congress's two-week Easter break have delivered four more signers of the Discharge Petition to force a US House floor vote on Rep. Heath Shuler's SAVE Act (H.R. 4088) to stop companies from hiring illegal aliens. If the SAVE Act goes into law, you will see a mass exodus of illegal aliens over the next several years.
SIGNERS Alaska -- Rep. Young New York -- Rep. Walsh Ohio -- Rep. Tiberi Pennsylvania -- Rep. Kanjorski
Out of 435 Members of the House, 185 have now signed the Discharge Petition, which is a rarely used procedure to move legislation that is blocked by House leadership......a phenomenal number. But it will take 218 signers to force Speaker of the House Pelosi to bring the SAVE Act to a vote.
We need 33 more signers.
ACT 1: Please go here to make sure you have sent the faxes and made the phone calls posted to move the SAVE Act forward.www.NumbersUSA.com/actionbuffet
ACT 2: Call non-signers from your state. Those w/ Representative already signed can help by pressuring nearby non-signers.
Capitol Switchboard: 202-224-3121
Victory is near -- as close as we were in 1996 when major solutions to our immigration mess slipped through our fingers at the last moment. If the SAVE Act goes into law, you will see a mass exodus of illegal aliens over the next several years. We have to find 33 more allies among the 250 remaining non-signers.
Below are the Representatives identified by NumbersUSA Capitol Hill Team as the most susceptible to requests from constituents. If your Representative is not a signer, you need to keep pushing even if he/she is not on the lists below. The lists below contain our top possibilities, worthy of cross-district and cross-state efforts.
TOP DEMOCRAT TARGETS
These are House Democrats who: won their last election with 51% or less of the vote, are cosponsors of the SAVE Act have not signed the discharge petition
Ron Klein (FL22) Jim Marshall (GA08) Melissa Bean (IL08) Baron Hill (IN09) Patrick Murphy (PA08) Steven Kagen (WI08)
We note winning margins in last elections because, generally, the closer the vote the more a Member needs to listen to our side of the issue.
SECOND-PRIORITY DEMOCRAT TARGETS: These are House Democrats who: won their last election with only 52-56% of the vote, are cosponsors of the SAVE Act have not signed the discharge petition
Leonard Boswell (IA03)- 52% Jason Altmire (PA04) - 52% Kirsten Gillibrand (NY20) – 53% Charlie Melancon (LA03)-55% Joe Sestak (PA07)-56%
These 11 Democrats support the SAVE Act. They have strong political reasons to stand up on our side. Signing will greatly improve their Immigration-Reduction Grades which have already suffered because they haven't signed the Discharge Petition.
A lot of the NON-signers will say that they oppose giving jobs to illegal aliens and that the SAVE Act will keep that from happening. But they'll say they can't sign the Discharge Petition because the SAVE Act should go through the committee process before getting a vote. The problem is that Speaker Pelosi has made it clear during her 15 months in power that she won't allow a vote on any enforcement unless it includes an amnesty for illegal aliens. The only way to significantly increase laws of enforcement is to by-pass the current House leadership. The Discharge Petition -- if signed by 218 people -- will deny Speaker Pelosi the ability to attach any of her amnesty preferences.
If you are a Democrat and not in any of the states where the Democrats listed above reside, please consider calling the Representatives who are in states in your region. Talk Democrat to Democrat. Four dozen Democrats have broken with Party Leadership to co-sponsor SAVE. And 10 of them have really shown courage by signing the Discharge Petition.
PRIORITY REPUBLICAN TARGETS
About 90% of House Republicans have followed their Party Leadership's request that they sign this Discharge Petition. In order for a Republican to NOT sign it now, that Republican must be a huge supporter of hiring illegal aliens ... or one might think that. Here are the remaining House Republicans who have not signed the petition. If you have any of these in your state, don't you have a way of shaming them into joining the rest of the Party? They are listed in alphabetical order by state.
ALABAMA Mike Rogers (AL03)
CALIFORNIA Devin Nunes (CA21) George Radanovich (CA19)
FLORIDA Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (FL18) Lincoln Diaz-Balart (FL21) Mario Diaz-Balart (FL25)
IDAHO Bill Sali (ID01)
ILLINOIS Tim Johnson (IL15)
INDIANA Mark Souder (IN03)
NEW JERSEY Frank LoBiondo (NJ02) Scott Garrett (NJ05)
NEW YORK Vito Fossella (NY13) John McHugh (NY23) Thomas Reynolds (NY26) Randy Kuhl (NY29)
MICHIGAN Vernon Ehlers (MI03) Fred Upton (MI06)
MISSISSIPPI Charles Pickering (MS03)
OHIO David Hobson (OH07) Deborah Pryce (OH15)
TEXAS Ron Paul (TX14)
WASHINGTON Richard Hastings (WA04) Cathy McMorris Rodgers (WA05)
WEST VIRGINIA Shelley Moore Capito (WV02)
Republicans this is for you: We have 175 Republicans willing to force a vote to finally effectively remove U.S. jobs from illegal aliens. But the 24 Republicans listed above are standing up for the ability of companies to continue to choose illegal aliens over American workers. Can they possibly justify this stance? Ask them.
Personally, I think most of these just don't realize how exposed they are to public ridicule or that their lack of action is such a prominent role in protecting outlaw businesses. Some may just have been careless in paying attention. Others may have some legitimate concerns about process but are failing to grasp the overall balance of this situation. Only constituents can push them to make the right decision.
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“Faxes and phone calls to New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Alaska during Congress’s two-week Easter break have delivered four more signers of the Discharge Petition to force a US House floor vote on Rep. Heath Shuler’s SAVE Act (H.R. 4088) to stop companies from hiring illegal aliens. If the SAVE Act goes into law, you will see a mass exodus of illegal aliens over the next several years.”
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Then he went to D.C. and voted with Nancy Pelosi 81% of the time, and with the national unions almost 100% of the time. Now an election is around the corner, and he's trying to pretend, again, that he's a conservative.
I know all this because I'm in the Republican primary in NC 11 with intent to paint Shuler for exactly what he is, and end his congressional career at two years.
If you REALLY want enforcement against illegal immigration, help me beat Shuler. I won't kill the effort on day one by voting for Nancy Pelosi for Speaker.
John / Billybob
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We call that having a " Come to Jesus" moment. RINO Rooty Giuliani was good at "seeing the light" at selected caucus/primaries----that's why he tanked like a deadweight going down a 300 ft cistern.
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