Mom's Scathing Message For Pro-Gun Senator Corker

[Tx4obama]

Heather Whaley, Mom, Prank Calls Senator Bob Corker To Advocate For Gun Control

Frustrated after the Senate bill to expand gun background checks failed earlier this month, Heather Whaley has taken matters into her own hands. A member of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, she is practicing what the group preaches, calling Senators who voted against the measure one by one. However, as the clip above shows, when she reached one particular Senator's office, she took a unique approach to the conversation.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/27/heather-whaley-senator-bob-corker-gun-control-video_n_3170462.html

p.s. Be sure to watch it all the way to the end.

[freshwest]

1. Except the person she did the 'gotcha' on isn't in charge of policy or Corker.

All the clerk is allowed to convey is that the caller is irate, supports his position against background check. The phone system will record the incoming call number.

The clerk is in no position to make a judgment on the truth of the caller's claim or anything being said but the basics that the caller supports his position. And the clerk has no power to get Corker to do anything.

A phone call made in this way can be emotionally satisfying to the video viewers but isn't proof of anything. She didn't talk to him, this is like dissing the fast food help in the drive through of an unpopular restaurant.

Corker didn't support checks but this is not the totality of the bill presented. We can't simplify things to this level and expect to make an impact, or use it as evidence, just produce outrage as she said people will enjoy it.

I support the words at HuffPo:

On April 17, Whaley reacted to the Senate's vote by writing on her personal blog: "Today we saw a disgraceful display of cowardice by our US Senators. This is a big blow to our freedom, to our public welfare, and to America."

Yes, it's a big blow to our freedom, to live our lives in peace and not put up with what happened in Newton, etc; and it's a big blow to our public welfare, to not have our lives respected by those who think their 'right to carry' is more important than the right to life.

Sorry, that's my opinion after dealing with these things IRL. I am for background checks and severe gun control legislation. Very severe.

Not effective, not funny since I know people who fit the MH category being singled out here. Others may think this is great.

[SemperEadem]

5. that's neither here nor there...

the office assistant confirmed that Corker's views mirrored her views, which is what this caller was after. Of course this isn't about what the office assistant thought--that wasn't the overall issue here.

I thought it was very effective in that the office assistant said that Corker agreed with her premise.

[heaven05]

10. oh please!

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she is VERY EFFECTIVE AT GETTING THE POINT ACROSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Brimley]

2. I have OCD

And this woman uses her faux mental illness in the service of a prank? Fuck that!

[eggplant]

7. Oh, please. Your concern is touching.

She asked a simple, straightforward question, and got a straightforward, simple answer.

Unless your mental illness falls under the category of *paranoid schizophrenic as deemed by a judge*, she's not talking about you.

[BeatleBoot]

3. I think it gets the point across, thanks for posting...

Lots of stigma with mental illness, it hits home....

[pacalo]

4. That's the approach those senators deserve & Heather played it well with the continued insistence

on a direct answer. Her inflection was spot on, too.

[another_liberal]

6. If one person makes this call to Corker's office, it's annoying.

If ten people make this same call to Corker's office it will get noticed.

If one hundred people make this same call to Corker's office, he will be informed.

If one thousand people make this same call . . .

Get the idea?

[eggplant]

8. You can get anything you want at Alice's Restaurant... n/t

[another_liberal]

9. "I confess . . ."

"I was the one who put that envelope under that pile of garbage!"

[Samantha]

12. Except for one thing

Corker is a total Dud. He speaks on behalf of the wealthy in TN, and businesses, and if you are not in one of those categories, he doesn't care what your opinion is. Blackburn is the same.

Sam

[another_liberal]

13. A Senator is elected State-wide.

If Corker wants to be reelected, and he likely does, he will be sensitive to a large number of people from his State advising him to change his stance on this issue. The NRA's money will do him no good if enough voters begin to disagree with his position on background checks. Chances are they might and turn up on election day to vote the way they feel. He's smart enough to realize that.

In the case of politics and politicians, never say never.

[Samantha]

14. He is very popular in Tennessee -- I know this from my relatives living there

Would you like to know why? He is a good, Christian man. The fact that he always protects the interests of the monied people and corporations totally escapes many voters there.

One of his first public major moves was to step out and proclaim we should let Detroit fail? You want to know why? He was protecting the interests of Nissan and it didn't bother him that many factory workers in Detroit who had been investing years of their lives in working for the auto industry would, should the companies there declare bankruptcy, have to petition a bankruptcy court as all other creditors and take pennies on the dollar for their pensions. Does that sound like a good Christian man to you?

Sorry to rant about him; I just can't stand him or Blackburn either one and I tend to go off about it but it basically is because I know many people there who need their politicians to stand up and speak out to protect for instance the earned benefits programs as opposed to the Fix-the-Debt Crowd.

Sam

[another_liberal]

15. Keeping little children alive is also very popular.

Not every parent is willing to buy their six-year-old a bullet-proof backpack and otherwise just let the chips fall where they may regarding crazy people owning semi-automatic rifles and handguns. Even in Tennessee, most people want their kids to live long enough to graduate High School.

[Samantha]

16. Yes, I agree but there are so many Tennesseans that do not have the capacity to separate religion

from politics. So if someone is considered a good Christian man, he obviously would never support anything that could potentially harm children. or old people. I think a lot of this has to do with the fact that Fox is so influential in that state, and many people do not have the opportunity to listen to more moderate thinking.

On the other hand, the good thing that is happening down there is that so many people from the East and the North are retiring in Tennessee because of its lack of a state income tax and its moderate weather. That should give the area a little more balance.

But yet my step-mother, a life-long, die-hard Democrat who thought FDR walked on water, retired there several years ago and is now a rabid Republican. She left the Democratic party when Clinton's Monica problem erupted into the mainstream news and became a Republican. She is very religious, but it baffles me why she thinks only Democrats have relationships outside of their marriages .... but what do I know???

Sam

PS Don't get me wrong. I think Tennessee is an absolutely beautiful state and has some of the friendliest people in the world. I just get upset that so many of them are poverty-stricken and their Senators do not protect their interests. They are in the pockets of the wealthy and the corporations.

[another_liberal]

17. I knew a man who grew up in East Tennessee.

His family was so poor that as a child he used to get an orange for Christmas. That is what he said, and he was not one to exaggerate about such things. He was conservative, but not stupid or hate-driven. If there are enough other people like him in Tennessee, Croker may be in trouble.

Remember, even in Missouri voters refused to elect that ass, Todd Akin. If that can happen there, anything can happen anywhere!

[zebonaut]

11. This has to be followed up by a protester confronting these Senators during a speech

Code Pink has to go in their and stand up and shout across the room
And more vids like this have to be filmed and posted for each Senator; and turned into ADs

Corker: