15 states where Sens undecided about filibuster and need your help

[rodeodance]

to call Senators.

The states are: ....Alaska, Arkansas, Connecticut, Florida, Iowa, Delaware, Louisiana, Maine, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Rhode Island and South Dakota,.....

I got this as an email:

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: NOW Targets Key States to Defend the Filibuster
Date: Wed, 04 May 2005 23:59:33 -0400
From: NOW Media Relations <[e-mail]>


For Immediate Release
Contact: Jenny Thalheimer, 202-628-8669 x 116

National Organization for Women Targets Key States to Defend the Filibuster

May 4, 2005

"NOW activists across the country are leading an emergency campaign to save our courts," said NOW President Kim Gandy. "We are targeting senators in fifteen states and sending the message that we will not allow the legacy of our courts to be dictated by religious and political extremists."

This is a critical time for NOW activists in 15 states represented by senators who have not yet said publicly whether or not they will support Senator Frist's attempt to "go nuclear" and banish the filibuster. NOW activists are targeting Alaska, Arkansas, Connecticut, Florida, Iowa, Delaware, Louisiana, Maine, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Rhode Island and South Dakota, urging undecided senators not to "blow up" the senate.

"Republican leaders are misleading the public by claiming that Democrats have blocked numerous judicial nominations," Gandy said. "The fact is that in the last four years, they've only blocked 10 of Bush's nominees while confirming over 200."

Responding to the suggestion that filibusters against nominees Priscilla Owen and Janice Rogers Brown might trigger the nuclear option, Gandy said: "NOW is not pleased to oppose the elevation of two women to the highest courts of the land. But our primary focus, above all else, is equality and justice for women. Unfortunately, these two nominees have embraced with zeal judicial philosophies that do not respect women's rights, consumer rights, environmental rights or minority rights."

Despite their gender, these two state Supreme Court Justices have revealed their hostility to the employment rights and reproductive health of women. Senate Democrats were right to filibuster these two nominees when they were first nominated, and should do so again. George W. Bush thumbed his nose at the justifiable opposition to these nominees, knowing that he was throwing down the gauntlet.

"This battle over judicial nominees is ultimately about the Supreme Court," Gandy said. "Whether or not we succeed in protecting the filibuster could determine the status of abortion, civil rights and the separation of church and state for decades to come."

[Paul Dlugokencky]

1. They are...

Sen. Richard Shelby (Alabama)
Sen. Ted Stevens and Sen. Lisa Murkowski (Alaska)
Sen. John McCain (Arizona)
Sen. Richard Lugar (Indiana)
Sen. Charles Grassley (Iowa)
Sen. Pat Roberts (Kansas)
Sen. Jim Bunning and Sen. Mitch McConnell (Kentucky)
Sen. Olympia Snowe and Sen. Susan Collins (Maine)
Sen. Thad Cochran (Mississippi)
Sen. Chuck Hagel (Nebraska)
Sen. Judd Gregg and Sen. John Sununu (New Hampshire)
Sen. Pete Domenici (New Mexico)
Sen. Mike DeWine and Sen. George Voinovich (Ohio)
Sen. Gordon Smith (Oregon)
Sen. Arlen Specter (Pennsylvania)
Sen. Lincoln Chafee (Rhode Island)
Sen. Lindsey Graham (South Carolina)
Sen. Lamar Alexander (Tennessee)
Sen. John Warner (Virginia)



http://www.cafepress.com/kickindemocrats

[RC]

2. When stories about the Dems blocking nominations appear

in the MSM, why is there very seldom mentioned that the nominees are extremists, that these nominees are far from being moderates and that they far to the right of the main stream? It is always pitted as Dems vs repugs and politics as normal.
Never anything about how flaky, reality challenged and incompetent most of bu$h's judicial nominations are.

We need to get across that siting judges need to be close enough to being moderates that they won't run this country off the edge of the slippery slope. Very few to none of Bu$h's appointees can be accused of being moderate.

[Catbird]

3. South Carolina not South Dakota

Thanks for the list. However, there is a senator from South Carolina (Lindsey Graham)on the list, but I don't see one from South Dakota.

Usually we're just one of those "Carolinas" but sometimes we get to be just one of those "South" states.

[Pepperbelly]

4. Neither Lincoln nor Pryor of Arkansas will support Frist. nt

[sinkingfeeling]

6. That's what I've been told by Lincoln and Pryor's staff as well. Do you

think they've confused AR and AZ again?

[Rainbowreflect]

5. I have called, written, faxed & emailed my Nebraska Senators,

I guess I can do it one more time.
:kick: