If you can not be In DC on the 6th....

[hootinholler]

I suggest that you send flowers to your Congresspersons and Senators.

Can you imagine with me a floral carpet throughout the offices of the Senate and Congress? Since they are hand delivered, the staff will have to do something with them. Senator, you have 3 dozen bouquets out here...

I also suggest 5 words for the card: Protect and Defend the Constitution.

-Hoot

[liberal N proud]

1. Funny idea, great way to keep them busy too.

[electropop]

26. Amusing, but it won't work.

I work in a federal office down the street from the Capitol, and I can tell you something about what happens to anything physically delivered to federal offices. I don't know exact details and would not be at liberty to tell you if I did, but let's just say that if you send me a CD the jewel case arrives as a molten mass. If you send me a letter, it looks about 600 years old and falls apart when opened. There is also a 2-week delay.

[Higans]

45. we all know how the feds like to destroy things.

[hootinholler]

47. Um, ok, but...

I'm considering it being delivered in person by a florist employee. I understand that they nuke the mail.

Doesen't Congress have an internal florist? They have a barber shop and a bank in the basement. I guess I'll have to google it.

-Hoot

[katinmn]

2. good idea!

Orange flowers from people all over the country.
I like it.:)

[Jo March]

7. Orange flowers - even better

I think that the card should read, "Defend the Constitution - Protest the Election Fraud" or something like that.

[aquart]

8. ARE there orange flowers?

Wait. Tiger lilies?

[Jo March]

11. Don't know. I'll go look at FTD or one of the flower delivery places

This is a cool idea.

[GreenPartyVoter]

13. Also mums, calendula, california poppies, chinese lanterns

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[Jo March]

22. Nice, GPV, nice ideas there

Oh, we need to get this word out, don't we?

I'm on my way home but I'll post this on my website tonight.
www.domainofarnheim.com

This is great. Man, DUers are so smart! I love this place!

[GreenPartyVoter]

25. Well, the CA poppies aren't going to do well as bouquet or potted plants

but the others will be fine. Actually Chinese Lanterns and orange straw flowers would do well in a dried arrangement, and therefore last that much longer.

All hail the power of sending dead flowers. *g*

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[bunny planet]

37. Yes those dyed orange ones, like the green ones for St. Patrick's day.

[alexisfree]

3. roses with thorns !!for the rep.

[Jo March]

4. What an awesome idea! That is simply perfect!

Absolutely, simply, positively perfect!!! They should be sent to arrive on the 5th, right? So they will have the night to think about it.

This is great. I will keep this kicked!

Wonderful idea.

[New Earth]

5. aww that's a good idea

it might make a hard job for the security over there though....

[Jo March]

9. Screw security! ;)

I can't be there on the 6th and I can't be in Ohio on the 3rd. This is something I can do. I can send flowers to Senators. I can make a statement that way. :)

Maybe they'll recognize my name from all of the faxes that I sent via www.thedeanpeople.org!

[hootinholler]

20. Even better if security is bogged down...

It delays everything!

Why are things so slow today? 'cause we got umpteen hundred bouqets of flowers.

-Hoot

[Jo March]

21. Oh, how utterly sweet that would be

I've been meaning to thank Jeffords for a while now. Might as well "say it with flowers." ;)

[FogerRox]

6. cant make DC--because I'm running the CBS protest in NYC YEAH Ukrainians

ROCK ! ! ! ! !

[aquart]

10. NYC? What's in NYC?

[FogerRox]

27. NYC ? NYC ? go here: http://www.51capitalmarch.com aaaRRRRGGGGGG

My Mission: TARGET CBS

Join the protest @ CBS in NYC or protest in DC--If enough Peeps show @ CBS I will extend the efforts to other outlets, Like ABC & NBC.

Power to the People ! !! ! ! RIght On Brother KIP ! !! !

http://www.51capitalmarch.com /
[e-mail] /

[Elise]

12. Why?

There is plenty going on throughout the country.

I think those of us who cannot be in DC on the 6th should ALL be attending demonstrations closest to us and forget about the flowers unless we have plenty of extra money for that.

Imagine seeing (at least on C-SPAN) massive demonstrations in ALL 50 states!

[hootinholler]

15. Um, sorry, I thought it was obvious...

Isn't the point of the demonstration to get the attention of the Congress?

I was trying to come up with something concrete that a staffer has to deal with and can't just file away.

-Hoot

[Jo March]

18. hootinholler, the point is exactly that

We will not be ignored!

[Jo March]

19. Remember too that some have to work & so this is perfect for them

They don't have to miss work. Contractors like me have no time off and no vacation days. :(

[EFerrari]

14. And if they do nothing, on Jan 7, it's a dead fish wrapped in

newsprint.

lol

Sorry. I know neither of my CA senators will take the bullet. Diane makes too much money on defense contracts. Barbara doesn't want to lose her seat.

[Helga Scow Stern]

16. So that's definite, that Barbara will not contest?

In that case, I will send my flowers to Byrd.

[EFerrari]

28. I have no secret special knowledge. Just a gut feeling. She

was just re-elected, and it seemed to me that her backing even here in SF is sort of tepid.

Diane might as well be a Republican, ties to defense through her husband, and to Big Parma through Magellan Health.

But, I won't quit asking. And flowers are a great idea.

[Jo March]

17. Then focus on Byrd or another Senator

Just focus on one or two and send them emails or faxes. Don't give up.

Heck, I have Libby freaking Dole and Edwards. Edwards is with Elizabeth and Libby is a Rethug. So, I'm concentrating on other Senators - heck, even the ones with R behind their names.

[EFerrari]

29. That's right. I think one thing most of us have in common is we're

more stubborn than God. And a good thing too, we'll need it.

[Jo March]

46. I am a liberal - from Alabama

Does that tell you how committed I am to the cause? LOL!

[bunny planet]

38. Even better.

[SammyWinstonJack]

23. Tea roses?

:evilgrin:

[hootinholler]

24. Dandelions!

:evilgrin:

[s-cubed]

30. MESSAGE: SYMPATHY FOR THE DEATH OF DEMOCRACY

[bunny planet]

39. There you go, that's the message I'm sending, but I would add.......

Unless you act to help save it.

[coreystone]

31. I Think It is an Excellent Idea!

Tomorrow is a Federal Holiday. I don’t know whether Senator Jefford’s office in Rutland, Vermont is open, but, I am reasonably sure that the good Senator would have a good chance of being in the state of his constituency (Vermont).

His home base Vermont office is located 2 ½ blocks from me. I have sat in a chair getting a haircuts when he was getting his. I graduated from high school in 1969 with one of his staff who works in this office.

I viewed a showing of “Fahrenheit 911” in the same theatre as he and his wife did last summer. He was only two rows in front of me.

When he was the Attorney General of Vermont, at a local state college in the early seventies, he gave a speech to the student body. Afterward, he held a voter registration session giving the Vermont’s "Freeman's Oath", now called the “Voter's Oath”.

I’ll check out his office tomorrow with a letter and a simple floral arrangement.

[bobbieinok]

32. is everyone just ignorig what #26 (reply to #1) says???????

[coreystone]

33. Yeah! Since my Senator happens to be right around the corner!..

:-)

[GetTheRightVote]

34. Keep it simple, "I WANT MY COUNTRY BACK"

:kick:

[coreystone]

36. Read the whole thread :-)...

My post #31!

Can't hurt!!

:-)

[bunny planet]

40. I must have number 26 on ignore, what did they say?

oh, there's a two week delay. That's crazy, no wonder they are so cranky, don't Senators ever get flowers? Probably a security thing, since the anthrax scare.

[Helga Scow Stern]

41. Thanks for pointing that out!!! I had heard that they don't even receive

snail mail well, because of anthrax.

Faxes are the best bet, or phone calls, I guess.

[bunny planet]

35. I love it. I am not sure yet if I can be there. This is a great idea.

Classy too.

[smartvoter]

42. I'm going to be there, but this is a gREAT idea. nt

[coreystone]

43. If any of you are in close proximaty to any of your Senator's "local"..

office, avoid the the "beltway", and try to go within your state on a local level. Bring the flowers and a letter to the staff which represents the Senators of your state. Make some personal contact!!!!

KISS! For those who are in an area where it is possible. Chances are that most of these Senators are either in their home state during the holidays or, in a very warm Carribean Island on vacation.

:-)

[katinmn]

44. Good point! Stopping in at the local office is good, too.

One way or another, the message will get through