*ranting, raving, throwing furniture, kicking the TV*

[GreenPartyVoter]

Hi,

Yes, I'm ok. Thank you for checking in. My blood pressure is a bit high at the moment because I'm having trouble keeping this action alert up and getting people to participate in it.

If you've already given the media and Congress a piece of your mind over the Gulf disaster response, great! You're free to go. If not, I have some really handy dandy easy peasy email forms you can fill out at major activism networks like Move-On that will contact the media and your congress critters for you.

Some of them have prewritten letters, some do not however the activism thread below is chock full of DUer letters, pick one and borrow it. There are plenty of other Katrina facts and figures in the thread as well if you need more ammo. If you prefer to call the Hill and chew out a real live human being you can find that info there as well.

Please, we need help shouting down the spin doctors and the repugs on the Hill. We need numbers and volume. We have to speak up for the people whose lives were torn apart or ended by Katrina, FEMA, and Fatherland InSecurity. If we don't speak up for them, who will?

Thank you!

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[mod mom]

1. GPV, I'm with you. Now that we have a sympathetic press and elected

officials in outrage, we need to continue feeding information to them while thanking and encouraging them. I just got off this one:

"Why is Blackwater Security patrolling NO @ $350/day ???

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/09/12/142...

Our National Guard isn't capable? This is further abuse of the situation by Bush administration cronies who reap large profits at the expense of the American taxpayer. It is also demeaning to our brave service men/women who are paid a mere pittance for doing the same work. The GOP culture of corruption rewards their pay to play loyalty with absurd pay-offs.

The tie-in
is the DeVos family of Amway. Blackwater is owned by Eric Prince brother of Betsy, wife of Dick DeVos son of Amway founder and now CEO. Betsy was past GOP chair in MI.

I say feed the fury! these despicable neocons need to be stopped NOW!

[GreenPartyVoter]

2. Yep, Blackwater and the no-bid contracts are my next targets. This is

insanity!

:hug:

[walldude]

3. Well, as you say I am free to go since I have sent my

letters and made my phone calls. On the other hand to use the words of our great :eyes: POTUS, I think I need to "repeat over and over again to...kinda catapult the propaganda." So I'll be sending some more letters and e-mails today...

on edit-I don't think anyone is going to be "free to go" until our job is done. Regime change starts at home.

[GreenPartyVoter]

5. *high five* Thanks! For once I agree with the POTUS on somethin

except that we don't have propaganda.. we have truth. :hug:

[MsUnderstood]

4. Calm down friend!

Okay I've finally gotten off my fat arse and told my reps how sickened I am about the federal government's failure to respond and the need NOT to cut taxes. . .take a chill pill!

Thanks for the reminder.

[GreenPartyVoter]

7. I can't take a chill pill. I've been trying for several days to get this

thing off the ground and I just can't do it. Sinks like a stone every time I post it. *sigh*

But thanks for telling your reps what's what. Every call and letter helps. And so does replying to this post since it keeps the thread alive. *g* :hug:

[maine_raptor]

6. GPV, talked with Mike Michaud directly this past weekend

he is aware (very aware), I'll say no more about the conversation, but watch the papers in the next week or so.:evilgrin:

[GreenPartyVoter]

8. Bless you! I plan on reading Susan Collins the riot act. Again.

:hug:

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[maine_raptor]

10. You might want read it SLOWLY to her and use small words too GRIN

[GreenPartyVoter]

11. Heehee. She and McCain were here earlier this year. I had been SO tempted

to tell them off then, but hubby was freaked out over the idea so I stuck with the letters.

[maine_raptor]

12. In Jan 2009

I'll tell you one of my connections...til then shhhhhhhhhhhhh!

[GreenPartyVoter]

15. Ok. I just hope it isn't Jean Hay Bright. She tweaked my nose

when she jumped in line to get in front of me to ask Cindy Sheehan a question and tout her campaign at the Full Circle Fair.

Of course, I am biased when it comes to her because my dad has known her for years and had some less than flattering things to say about her. :P And anyway, I still got to ask Cindy my wuestion about the DSM and plamegate.. and I plugged DU too! *g*

[maine_raptor]

17. Nope

But you'll freak out loud when I tell you...it is un-f'ng believable. Have to keep it on the QT for now.

Just PM me when Jan 22, 2009 rolls around.

[GreenPartyVoter]

18. Well, gee... it's a ways away, but I'll pencil it in *g*

[anarchy1999]

9. I called the White House last week and ranted for an actual 5-10 minutes

with a real person and then I called my favorite, Kay Bailey-H. office in Dallas. Would you believe they told me, they had the nerve to try and to tell me I did not need to be contacting her, I need to be contacting "my representative"! Whoa, hold on a minute dear, she is a Senator, right? I get to vote every once and a while for a State Senatore, right? Yes, well then she represents me, right? Yes, well then why in the hell are you telling me I need to call someone else? HOW DARE YOU!

Once again I reiterate, I will do everything within my power to make sure Kay is defeated in whatever position she may decide to run for next, she is a miserable politician and most of all she is a miserable mother and grandmother. Period, and thank you very much.

[GreenPartyVoter]

13. Kay is slime. I can't believe they tried to pawn you off onto a Rep when

she IS a representative of you. Or at least she is supposed to be.

Amazing the white house let you go off for so long. That is great! :hug:

[Lone_Star_Dem]

19. Oh, anarchy1999, you should have asked them if she wants your vote

Our politicians here are just too sure of themselves.

I have a stack of letters from KBH telling me how she supports every damn thing bush has proposed that I've ever written her about. I get the form reply, I appreciate your concern but you're wrong and I'm with him, or words to that effect. I only wish I had complained about Brown being placed as head of FEMA to her so I'd have that one to throw in her bush butt kissing face.

[GreenPartyVoter]

20. I get the same sorta letters from Olympia, except that she's nicer about

it than Kay. But still, she peddles all the GOP talking points on most issues. (Like the last reply I got fomr her--finally--where she pooh poohed my demands to look into the DSM because the war was ok since they made the decision on the intel that was available at the time. *ARGH*)

[LSK]

14. done a week ago

I wrote one of the original letters and have been sending it around. :hi:

[GreenPartyVoter]

16. Yes, you did and you rule! *hugs* I wasn't able to compose

a letter that fast. It takes me time to stew and simmer and get all the points arranged in my subconsciousness before I can type it out. And then I have to have all of DU proof it before I can send it. :P

Actually I hate doing LTTEs because of having to ride out the "rebuttals", even if they come from far away and days after the fact. Makes me sick to my stomach when people argue with me. (I woulda made a great trial lawyer, eh?)

But I have to get over my fears and just do it. Good government doesn't just happen. Citizens have to make it work.

[GreenPartyVoter]

21. kick

[DoYouEverWonder]

22. I got a Repug at the beauty parlour the other day

does that count?

The poor thing was trapped with no where to go and she started to talking about the storm. She had all the Rush talking points down and I nailed her on everyone. It was so much fun.

[GreenPartyVoter]

24. Yes, it's good to get the word out on the ground, but we still have to

tree the Congress Critters on this too. *g*

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[DoYouEverWonder]

26. Oh I know

I just wanted to brag. It felt so good.

[GreenPartyVoter]

27. Brag away :^) We to show the world that no, liberals are not too scared or

too nice to speak out against the RW garbage.

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[trof]

23. Here's one of my senators' reply:

I feel SO much better now.
:grr:

Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 10:44:18 -0400
From: "Shelby, Senator (Shelby)" <[e-mail]>
To: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Thank you for your e-mail

*******************************************************************
NOTE: If you are an Alabama constituent who already included your
full name, complete address and phone number in your original
e-mail
message in a format similar to:

Pat Doe
123 Anywhere Street
Somewhere, AL 12345
[phone]

you may disregard this message -- you will receive a response
addressing your concerns as soon as possible.
*******************************************************************


Thank you for your recent e-mail message to my office. I am glad
you
took the time to contact me. I am always interested in receiving
the
views of Alabamians, and responding to my constituents is a top
priority of my office.

Because of the high volume of e-mail I receive daily, everyone
who sends me an e-mail message will be sent this automated
response acknowledging receipt.

If you did NOT include your postal address in your original
e-mail to me and you are an Alabama constituent who wants a
response, please e-mail your address AND the original comments
from your previous e-mail so that I may appropriately respond
to you.

Again, thank you for contacting me.

Sincerely,
Richard C. Shelby
United States Senator
http://shelby.senate.gov/
P.S. Please sign up to receive regular e-mail updates from me on
issues of importance to you by logging on to:
http://shelby.senate.gov/newsletter/newslist.htm

[GreenPartyVoter]

25. Mmmmm yes, touching. Let us know if he ever gets back to you on

the actual points in your letter and not just the fact that you emailed him. (I bet dollars to donuts you get a vauge form letter like always receive from my Sens and Reps.)

[GreenPartyVoter]

28. kick

[GreenPartyVoter]

29. No really, I mean it *kick*

[GreenPartyVoter]

30. punt

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[GreenPartyVoter]

31. boot

[GreenPartyVoter]

32. Anyone?

[unless]

33. OK, I'll bite -

send me your initiatives of choice & where to go/write.

I'm a reformed freep and a (gasp) fundamentalist Christian - I'd be happy to talk about writing to some religious orgs if you have a list...

[GreenPartyVoter]

34. Great! Here is where you need to go to do this

There are links to some sites where you can fill out email forms in a hurry. No big deal. :)

What religious orgs would you like to blast? Me, I can't get enough of giving Fracas of the Family, Fallwell, and Robertson a hard time. :P

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Maybe you would be interested in my liberal Christian website? Unless you went from fundy to atheist/agnostic and prefer to stay away from religious pages. :)
http://www.geocities.com/greenpartyvoter/liberalchristians.htm

[unless]

35. I'll check out your site - but I'm still a fundy - just "rebooted"

:) A bit of a platypus, a liberal fundy...

Fracas of the Family, Fallwell, and Robertson are on my crap list.

[GreenPartyVoter]

36. Thanks. Hope you find some stuff of use there *hugs*

[unless]

37. I'll check out your site - but I'm still a fundy - just "rebooted"

:) A bit of a platypus, a liberal fundy...

Fracas of the Family, Fallwell, and Robertson are on my crap list.

And I went to all the sites you sent me to & sent emails/signed petitions. That was easy! And I feel useful!

[GreenPartyVoter]

38. sleepy kick. Nite all. I hope to awaken to find lots more folks have

written their emails. And while yer at it, boo the sweetheart no-bid contracts to KBR and Halliburton, and tell them NO to John Roberts. Just give 'em a laundry list of dos and don'ts.

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