MONDAY ALITO FILIBUSTER GAMEPLAN: URGE ABSTINENCE!

[kpete]

Monday, January 30, 2006
MONDAY ALITO FILIBUSTER GAMEPLAN: URGE ABSTINENCE!
Last updated: 7:17 am Pacific.


“The Woodstock of Politics”
– a caller to The Young Turks radio filibuster for filibuster,
about the grassroots Alito activism.



First, THANK YOU for your hard work over the weekend! As far as I can tell, all key Senators' D.C. voicemails, and over 90% of the voicemails in their various District offices, were filled up by the end of the weekend. I started hitting random extensions and leaving messages for poor hapless staffers. Every Senator will get the message on Monday morning. Awesome!

For today, I want to back away from the shotgun petitions. It's frustrating that no one in the Dem leadership will tell us who the "Alito 8" are (the Democrats who aren't hewing the party line), and we don't know how well Kerry and Kennedy are doing at moving them around to our side. But we can make an educated guess, and focus on those key Senators. In addition to calling their offices, we're also going to target their re-election campaign HQs. (A great idea thought up by our friend and fellow-traveler, Bob Fertik!) Finally, we're going to hammer away at a simple, but politically powerful, message.

Our theme today is: Lead, Follow, Or Get Out of the Way. In political terms, that's:


EITHER SUPPORT THE FILIBUSTER
OR ABSTAIN FROM THE CLOTURE VOTE,
BUT DON'T GET IN OUR WAY.

http://vichydems.blogspot.com/2006/01/monday-alito-filibuster-gameplan-urge.html#113863028928569686

[Surya Gayatri]

1. K & R Woot to boot Alito

Thanks for the morale boost, kpete. Excellent move to target campaign

headquarters--right to the jugular. :kick: SG

[woodsprite]

2. Just talked to Kerry's office and asked if there was anyone

we needed to concentrate on. They said they couldn't give out names, but call any Dem that seems to be waivering or only committed halfway.