Burn up their phone lines again today!
- Thread starter MsDoodahs
- Start date
georgiapeach
Member
- Joined
- Sep 6, 2008
- Messages
- 222
I emailed all my peeps last Friday and called their offices yesterday. SO now I am going down the whole list. So far today:
Neil Abercrombie's office: Didn't catch the name of the guy I talked to, but we wound up talking for about 5 minutes. He said Neil is totally against the Wall Street bailout but is willing to consider one that will help people keep their houses since he is sure that a bailout of some form will happen. He said that they he and Neil both agreed that Bernake and Paulson have been terrible about answering questions. AND, he said there was some sort of meeting yesterday about the bailout that Dick Cheney was in, and that tricky SOB was really pushing the bill. He said that the Republicans in the meeting said "No!" and walked out. He said it was the first time he had heard of the Republicans standing up to the White House. He said he has been a ton of calls from people against the bill. Yay!!
Gary Ackerman's office: asked me about state of residence. Said that they had had an overwhelming amount of calls from people against the bill.
Robert Aderholt: not taking messages from people outside of his district.
Todd Akin's office: asked me if I lived in some town in MO. I didn't catch the name of it but I said yes anyway. Left message.
Called Thomas Allen, Jason Altmire, Robert Andrews, and Rodney Alexander. I left messages with all of them but nothing interesting to report on them.
I'm going back to calling people. I'll report back later with progress.
Neil Abercrombie's office: Didn't catch the name of the guy I talked to, but we wound up talking for about 5 minutes. He said Neil is totally against the Wall Street bailout but is willing to consider one that will help people keep their houses since he is sure that a bailout of some form will happen. He said that they he and Neil both agreed that Bernake and Paulson have been terrible about answering questions. AND, he said there was some sort of meeting yesterday about the bailout that Dick Cheney was in, and that tricky SOB was really pushing the bill. He said that the Republicans in the meeting said "No!" and walked out. He said it was the first time he had heard of the Republicans standing up to the White House. He said he has been a ton of calls from people against the bill. Yay!!
Gary Ackerman's office: asked me about state of residence. Said that they had had an overwhelming amount of calls from people against the bill.
Robert Aderholt: not taking messages from people outside of his district.
Todd Akin's office: asked me if I lived in some town in MO. I didn't catch the name of it but I said yes anyway. Left message.
Called Thomas Allen, Jason Altmire, Robert Andrews, and Rodney Alexander. I left messages with all of them but nothing interesting to report on them.
I'm going back to calling people. I'll report back later with progress.
Bruno
Member
- Joined
- Feb 3, 2008
- Messages
- 19,518
I did TELL, just chose bad wording when I wrote that. I was pretty clear about it, in fact.
Bruno
Member
- Joined
- Feb 3, 2008
- Messages
- 19,518
I emailed all my peeps last Friday and called their offices yesterday. SO now I am going down the whole list. So far today:
Neil Abercrombie's office: Didn't catch the name of the guy I talked to, but we wound up talking for about 5 minutes. He said Neil is totally against the Wall Street bailout but is willing to consider one that will help people keep their houses since he is sure that a bailout of some form will happen. He said that they he and Neil both agreed that Bernake and Paulson have been terrible about answering questions. AND, he said there was some sort of meeting yesterday about the bailout that Dick Cheney was in, and that tricky SOB was really pushing the bill. He said that the Republicans in the meeting said "No!" and walked out. He said it was the first time he had heard of the Republicans standing up to the White House. He said he has been a ton of calls from people against the bill. Yay!!
Gary Ackerman's office: asked me about state of residence. Said that they had had an overwhelming amount of calls from people against the bill.
Robert Aderholt: not taking messages from people outside of his district.
Todd Akin's office: asked me if I lived in some town in MO. I didn't catch the name of it but I said yes anyway. Left message.
Called Thomas Allen, Jason Altmire, Robert Andrews, and Rodney Alexander. I left messages with all of them but nothing interesting to report on them.
I'm going back to calling people. I'll report back later with progress.
encouraging! thanks for the update!
rockandrollsouls
Member
- Joined
- Jan 8, 2008
- Messages
- 3,858
Done yesterday getting others to follow suit today.
Bruno
Member
- Joined
- Feb 3, 2008
- Messages
- 19,518
call again if you have time. I did. They'll mark it down as another NO vote
Senator Bill Nelson of Florida just said on C-SPAN that he won’t vote for the 700 billion, but he’d vote for 150 billion then come back later for more if it was working and only if they created some sort of government agency that would insure that the money would go to keeping people in their homes.
matthylland
Member
- Joined
- Oct 30, 2007
- Messages
- 694
got my 3.
I was able to reach the aides of each of them, and left a polite message.
Keep it up guys, its all over the news that there is doubt about this bailout from congress.
It makes me even happier to see republicans walking out of a meeting with Cheney! how cool is that.
I was able to reach the aides of each of them, and left a polite message.
Keep it up guys, its all over the news that there is doubt about this bailout from congress.
It makes me even happier to see republicans walking out of a meeting with Cheney! how cool is that.
V4Vendetta
Member
- Joined
- Jul 22, 2007
- Messages
- 2,703
Just got in contact with Senator John Cornyn office the guys words that answered the phone:
"Mr. Coryn doesn't think the Federal Government has the authority to bail out corporations."
I NEARLY FAINTED WHEN I HEARD THOSE WORDS!!!!!!
Call him to verify:
(202) 224-2934
Still get a busy signal when calling Hutchinson's office.
(202) 224-5922
"Mr. Coryn doesn't think the Federal Government has the authority to bail out corporations."
I NEARLY FAINTED WHEN I HEARD THOSE WORDS!!!!!!
Call him to verify:
(202) 224-2934
Still get a busy signal when calling Hutchinson's office.
(202) 224-5922
Last edited:
matthylland
Member
- Joined
- Oct 30, 2007
- Messages
- 694
That is great to hear...people actually thinking about this...I love it!
rockandrollsouls
Member
- Joined
- Jan 8, 2008
- Messages
- 3,858
Guys, make sure to tell whoever you reach that you don't support the bill in any way, shape, or form! Don't give them a loophole.
undergroundrr
Member
- Joined
- Aug 17, 2007
- Messages
- 3,334
Called my congressman. Joe Barton's assistant says he's against the plan.
Great to hear about Cornyn as well, although I don't trust either of them.
Great to hear about Cornyn as well, although I don't trust either of them.
LibertyEagle
Paleoconservative
- Joined
- May 28, 2007
- Messages
- 52,730
When they get to the point when they answer the phone speaking those words, THEN we will have done something.
Dave
Member
- Joined
- May 14, 2007
- Messages
- 925
Here's what I did yesterday:
Everyone keep calling! Senator Grassley says his phones are ringing off the hook and that he hasn't made up his mind yet.
Call your local radio talk shows and tell them there IS a solution to this crisis - everyone wants to talk about what's going on. It's easy - just use the handout for talking points.
- Called statewide radio talk show (WHO) and spoke for several mintues about why the bailout is wrong and encouraged everyone to call their reps/senators. Used the pdf from the C4L website for talking points. Mentioned C4L a couple times - encouraged everyone to join us in mobilizing to fight this nonsense.
- Called my rep/senators and told their staff that I wanted them to vote against the bailout.
- Put on a suit/tie and took a stack of the handouts to my County (largest in IA) GOP Central Committee meeting and spoke on behalf of C4L about organizing opposition to the bailouts. I was very well received and there were lots of questions and lots of agreement. To my surprise I was then elected to my Congressional District GOP Executive Committee.
Everyone keep calling! Senator Grassley says his phones are ringing off the hook and that he hasn't made up his mind yet.
Call your local radio talk shows and tell them there IS a solution to this crisis - everyone wants to talk about what's going on. It's easy - just use the handout for talking points.
georgiapeach
Member
- Joined
- Sep 6, 2008
- Messages
- 222
Ok, now I have called:
Michael Acuri, Joe Baca, Michele Bachmann, Spencer Bachus, Brian Baird, Tammy Baldwin. Gresham Barrett, Roscoe Bartlett, Joe Burton, Mellissa Bean, and Xavier Becerra. For all those I just left a message with their secretary, nothing special.
The gentleman who answered John Barrow's phone said that Congressman Barrow had not seen the bill in writing and therefore had made no commitment either way. He said that if he did ok it then the Congressman wanted executive paycuts and more regulations. Booo!! I told him that if the Wall Street wasn't depending on a government bailout they would figure a way out on their own. I am not ok with a taxpayer bailout!
Ya'll should give Congressman Barrow a little extra phone call attention.
Michael Acuri, Joe Baca, Michele Bachmann, Spencer Bachus, Brian Baird, Tammy Baldwin. Gresham Barrett, Roscoe Bartlett, Joe Burton, Mellissa Bean, and Xavier Becerra. For all those I just left a message with their secretary, nothing special.
The gentleman who answered John Barrow's phone said that Congressman Barrow had not seen the bill in writing and therefore had made no commitment either way. He said that if he did ok it then the Congressman wanted executive paycuts and more regulations. Booo!! I told him that if the Wall Street wasn't depending on a government bailout they would figure a way out on their own. I am not ok with a taxpayer bailout!
Ya'll should give Congressman Barrow a little extra phone call attention.
MsDoodahs
Senior
- Joined
- May 10, 2007
- Messages
- 11,373
Folks, I had one of them try that "we only serve OUR district" bullshit with me yesterday.
Earmarks.
You want to serve only your district? We can play that game and work to keep your districts paws out of my districts pockets.
If I hear that again, I'm going to use that and see how it works...lol...
Earmarks.
You want to serve only your district? We can play that game and work to keep your districts paws out of my districts pockets.
If I hear that again, I'm going to use that and see how it works...lol...
Menthol Patch
Banned
- Joined
- Nov 9, 2007
- Messages
- 5,820
Keep making phonecalls everyone!
