Backlash to protests hits lawmakers like a brick

[NVMojo]

WASHINGTON -- Sending a brick to your congressman might cost more than a plain old letter, but there's no doubt that it carries more weight.

Four bricks landed in the offices of Nevada's Washington representatives in recent days, sent by constituents who want Congress to build a wall or otherwise secure the U.S.-Mexico border.

"The first one we got we were all wide-eyed, like, what's a brick doing here?" said David Cherry, spokesman for Rep. Shelley Berkley, D-Nev.

Scores of lawmakers on Capitol Hill have been hit by the grass-roots brick campaign, including Reps. Jim Gibbons and Jon Porter, both R-Nev., and Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev.

Gibbons' brick came with a letter stating, "This brick should give you a start in building a wall on the border."

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[DUHandle]

1. This sounds like a job for

Homeland Security!

[tanyev]

2. Have to give them some credit for not heaving them through their windows.

[xchrom]

3. that should give the ''illegal'' aliens conservatives are so

worried about jobs for years and years.

[rodeodance]

4. use the bricks as doorstops?

[OneBlueSky]

5. what people should really be sending to Congress is . . .

bags of horseshit . . . to symbolize their positions on major issues, and all that they accomplish for the American people, the nation, and the planet . . .

[cyberpj]

6. a bill for all the money "lost" in Iraq! nt

[Sequoia]

8. In the classifieds today I saw an ad I've never see: Free horse manure

Well, now......!

[bumblebee1]

14. If you don't have access to horseshit,

then any kind of shit will do. Dog shit, rat shit, guinea pig shit.

[BigDDem]

7. This just in...

Halliburton gets no-bid contract to build wall!

[bleedingheart]

10. and Halliburton is going to ship in Indonesians to build the wall

because they will work for far less than the Mexicans...

[DBoon]

9. So we are going to build a brick wall to keep conservatives out?

sounds like a good idea

[Az_lefty]

11. the protests have done more than hit lawmakers...

down here in So. Arizona several other groups have taken what the Minute Men were doing to extremes. A local news station did an under cover investigation and caught some of their racist crap on camera. "If we kill a few of those ^$##%^&^ they'll stop coming across the border. These guys are serious and seem to be spreading out along the border.

[aquart]

12. Soap opera fans have the same kind of campaigns.

Aren't they cute?

[Bandit]

13. Maybe our wall can be bigger and better than Berlin Wall

:shrug: "Mr. Gorbachev tear down that wall"

[yellowcanine]

15. Maybe send these pictures back by return mail and ask. "Is this what

you had in mind?"