CAFTA vote tonight Delay predicts win please, please please!

[Robert Oak]

Write your house reps to vote no on this bill.

It is a disaster for workers in every nation, there is not even a provision to stop forced labor and child labor in the CAFTA nations!

It's so close, a massive public outrage could stop it!

The stakes involved here are tremendous. Passage will immediately force America's 140,000,000+ work force to compete with another 20-40 million Central American workers, many of whom are making less than $2/day. In effect, it will increase our workforce size by 20-40 million, without increasing the number of jobs any. Increased supply of labor always reduces wages. In this case it will be much worse, because of the starvation-level wages of these new slave-laborers.

[Deep13]

1. tonight

My Rep. is Sherrod Brown (D-OH) and he talked about this at a party event last Sunday. He predicted the vote would be in the middle of the night, just like that Medicare thing. He predicted that the vote would stay open for hours and that the WH would harang Rs by phone until they had a majority. He told us a while ago for that medicare thing, the Ds had an opposition majority of one or two for hours. The WH was telephoning the Rs telling them to come and vote and to vote their way. Two freshman R reps. voted 'no.' They were telephoned by Bush himself at the House chamber and threatened until they changed their votes. As soon as they did so, the voting was closed after being open for hours. (Usual is 15 or 20 minutes.)

[liberal N proud]

2. He was also at an event on Capitol Hill yesterday

Caught a few minutes of his speech replayed on CSPAN this AM

[Robert Oak]

3. toll free number

1-800-718-1008

CAll your reps, especially if they are Republican and tell them to turn off their phones.

Just don't allow them to do yet another bill that harms America.

We just cannot afford it.

[Dream of the Flood]

5. FReepers don't like CAFTA either

See their thread here.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1451688/posts

It's funny. They appear to be on our side for more than a few key issues, yet they continue to support a party that stands for the destruction of the American family and the American dream due to their need for blind allegience to W.

This could be an important wedge issue for 2006.

[Robert Oak]

7. NeoCons not Republicans

It's the corporate party, Neocons and frankly there are corporists posing as Democrats too.

If the conservatives and liberals joined forces we might get our country back.

I think few realize just how much in common conservatives and liberals have...this is because sane economics is actually fairly well known...
yes massive divergence on social issues, but even there sometimes not.

Believe it or not, Bernie Sanders and a conservative Republican co-sponsored a bill to withdraw from the WTO. (Bernie Sanders is a socialist) and of course the bill got no press and hardly any votes.

You're right it is the Republicans fault for letting the Neocons gain control of their party, but on our side how to get corporate America agenda out of the Democratic party (at least when it is in direct conflict with the American people's interests).

[Dream of the Flood]

8. Yeah. You're right.

I should make the distinction. I'm an ex-Republican myself (although my politics and values took a left turn nearly a decade ago, I finally registered as a Democrat during the Primaries of 2004). It's especially easy for to be hard on my former party having been one. If there were more Olympia Snowes and McCains, I might not have switched, but there's no pride in being in a party that seems overrun by corporatists and zealots.

And yes, there are also more than a few DLC "centrist" corporatist Democrats as well (like the 15 turncoats who joined the Repubs in passing this appalling bill.)

[Sapphire Blue]

4. Current vote count--check to see where your Rep stands

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=4203163&mesg_id=4203504

[Robert Oak]

6. another partial list of representatives & their vote

from the national journal - subscription only

# Yes: Bachus, Barton, Bass, Beauprez, Biggert, Blunt, Boehner, Bonilla, Bono, Bradley, Brady, Burton, Calvert, Cannon, Cantor, Carter, Castle, Chocola, Cole, Conaway, Cox, G. Davis, T. Davis, DeLay, L. Diaz-Balart, M. Diaz-Balart, Doolittle, Drake, Dreier, English, Ferguson, Flake, Fortenberry, Frelinghuysen, Goodlatte, Granger, Harris, Hart, Hastert, Hastings, Hayworth, Hensarling, Herger, Hulshof, Hyde, Inglis, N. Johnson, S. Johnson, T. Johnson, Keller, Kennedy, P. King, S. King, Kirk, Kline, Knollenberg, Kolbe, LaHood, Latham, R. Lewis, Linder, Lungren, Marchant, McCaul, McCrery, McKeon, Moran, Myrick, Neugebauer, Northup, Nussle, Oxley, Pence, Pitts, Porter, Pryce, Radanovich, Ramstad, Reichert, M. Rogers (Ala.), M. Rogers (Mich.), Ros-Lehtinen, Ryan, Ryun, Sessions, Shaw, Shays, Sherwood, Shimkus, L. Smith, Souder, Sullivan, Thomas, Tiahrt, Weller, Westmoreland, Wicker and H. Wilson. (98)
# Leaning Yes: Akin, Barrett, R. Bishop, Boozman, Brown, Chabot, Culberson, Cunningham, Dent, Gilchrest, Gingrey, Gohmert, Istook, Kingston, Leach, J. Lewis, Lucas, Pearce, Peterson, Platts, Poe, Price, Putnam, Schwarz, Shadegg, Shuster and Terry. (27)
# No: Boustany, Cubin, Foxx, Goode, Hayes, Hunter, Jones, LaTourette, McHenry, Norwood, Otter, Paul, Rehberg, Simpson, Tancredo Taylor, and J. Wilson. (17)
# Leaning No: Aderholt, Bonner, Brown-Waite, Coble, Foley, Gutknecht, McCotter and Simmons. (8)
# Undecided: Bartlett, Bilirakis, Blackburn, Boehlert, Burgess, Camp, Capito, Crenshaw, Deal, Duncan, Ehlers, Emerson, Everett, Feeney, Fitzpatrick, Forbes, Franks, Gerlach, Gibbons, Gillmor, Graves, Green, Hefley, Hobson, Hoekstra, Kuhl, Mack, McHugh, McMorris, G. Miller, J. Miller, Murphy, Musgrave, Ney, Osborne, Petri, Pickering, Rohrabacher, Saxton, Sensenbrenner, C. Miller, Sodrel, Sweeney, Upton, Walden, Walsh, Wamp, C. Weldon, D. Weldon, Whitfield, C.W. Young and D. Young. (52)
# Declined to answer: Buyer, Garrett, Issa, Nunes, Regula, Tiberi, Turner and Wolf. (8)
# No Response by Presstime: Alexander, Baker, J. Davis, Fossella, Gallegly, Hall, Hostettler, Jenkins, Jindal, Kelly, LoBiondo, Manzullo, Mica, Pombo, Renzi, Reynolds, Hal Rogers, Royce, C. Smith, Stearns and Thornberry. (21)

This is dated yesterday.


Call the undecideds first and say NO CAFTA!