Channel your frustration into action: important CLOSE vote Wednesday

[Cocoa]

This is the budget bill with brutal cuts to Medicaid, and with more tax cuts to the rich.

target the wavering republicans Simmons NY, Sweeney CT and Goode VA!


http://www.hillnews.com/thehill/export/TheHill/News/Fro...

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Republicans from marginal districts know that lean funding can hurt them come election time, and the only Democrat to vote for a budget or spending reconciliation bill during Blunt’s tenure as whip, Rep. Ralph Hall of Texas, is now a Republican.

Blunt scored a victory by six votes — 212-206 — when the House passed a nearly identical package of spending cuts last month. But his coalition is showing signs of erosion.

Rep. Rob Simmons (R-Conn.), perennially one of the GOP’s most vulnerable incumbents, has declared he will switch his vote to no. Rep. John Sweeney (R-N.Y.) is wavering. Rep. Virgil Goode (R-Va.), another supporter of the cuts in December, is not commenting on his upcoming vote, according to a spokesman.

None of the three has declared his support in the three-way race for majority leader, but Sweeney is an outspoken advocate of holding a full slate of leadership elections.

Blunt faces John Boehner (R-Ohio) and John Shadegg (R-Ariz.) in Thursday’s election of a new majority leader, a job Blunt has handled since Rep. Tom DeLay (R-Texas) was forced to step down because of an indictment.

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here's the roll call from Dec. 19, ALL dems were against it.

http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2005/roll670.xml

[emlev]

1. Thanks for the tip. And While You're Taking Action:

During the "State of the Union" speech tomorrow night there will be "State of Emergency" protests all over the country.

Find one here:
http://www.worldcantwait.net

or start one and publicize it at the same site!