I just called Domenici's office & I am SHAKING WITH ANGER

[Gloria]

I read via a Buzzflash link that Domenici back in June 94 told Roll Call that he was against any end to the filibuster rule.

I just called Domenici's office here in Las Cruces and the secretary was just pulling off his press release with all the crap about how he's always believed every nominee deserves an up and down vote. Just spouting the official "message."

I told this woman that he had flip flopped on his 94 position (as recounted in the linked article up at BF) and that he was obviously no longer working for the people of this country. That I had lost all respect for him (not that I had that much) and that I would never vote for a Republican again (I've voted in the distant past for moderate Repugs). I said I didn't know how they all could live with themselves.

She hung up. Typical, what LOVELY people....

I am absolutely TOTALLY ENRAGED. My "public servant" at work....for me....not.

[DoYouEverWonder]

1. Apparently it is acceptable now a days

for Senate staffers to be rude. They don't have to talk to anyone who is telling them anything that they don't want to hear. I've been hung up on by Bill Nelson's staff and Tom Delay's staff. Consider it a badge of honor, you obviously hit a soar spot.

[tridim]

4. Taxation without representation

What's the penalty for that?

[Toby109]

16. R E V O L U T I O N

[tridim]

17. Word!

[Kerrytravelers]

2. I'd write a LTTE about this.

In fact, the post above is pretty conseise and well put.

[kaygore]

8. I AGREE. DO IT!!!

Show what a liar this guy is: How he can't be trusted.

[Lexingtonian]

3. have you called up the Albuquerque media yet?

Seems like something that should get in the papers in New Mexico, especially Heather Wilson country.

[MnFats]

5. Your post is a nearly-finished letter to the editor!!

and a damn good one!
massage it a little bit, make sure you've got complete sentences and all that, and PRESTO! his feet are to the fire!

[kaygore]

6. Get others from New Mexico to call

New Mexico is going to get bluer as people are forced to leave California due to the high costs of living. Let him know that his flip flopping and lies will not save him even if the Republican try to rig the voting again in New Mexico.

See, that's what all of these guys are counting on: That there will be no more honest elections. But, there is a way around the rigged voting machines. We can defeat them and beat them at their own game.

Don't just be mad. Get everyone you know to call and be mad. The senator has local offices. It doesn't need to be a long distance call. Picket the office nearest him tomorrow. Write letters to the newspapers.

This is our country. Our whole democracy is at risk here.

Don't be complacent!

You letter is best short and simple. I'll even help you write it.

Just do it! Make these people pay with their jobs.

[Arugula Latte]

7. What is the way around the rigged machines?

Please tell!

[kaygore]

10. Why do you care

They can't rig the elections in Oregon!

[stevedeshazer]

14. Explain why that is true, please.

Thanks in advance.

[kaygore]

15. Forgive me for being glib

But my answer was the answer and if you are from Oregon then you probably can figure it out. Because Rove is NOT from Oregon, I don't think they'll figure it out until it is too late.

Also, tomorrow will be a meeting in Sacramento to start the rigging of elections in California. That is actually our best hope because if they try they will be unmasked and the whole house of cards will come tumbling down!

What an East Coast rain we are getting in North Portland right now! It is as if God is even angry at Smith for being such an ass!

[T Town Jake]

19. You still haven't answered the questions put to you...

...in posts #7 and #14. Why don't you take another crack at it, and drop the Maxwell Smart routine? Thanks.

[kaygore]

23. Absentee ballots

basically that's how they vote in Oregon. It is a real paper ballot. You don't have to stand in the rain in long lines for hours to vote. You can vote at your leisure. It is the Oregon way.

The only problem is what I found when I was volunteering in Florida: those people most likely to vote Democratic were not sent their absentee ballots. However, next time we will be prepared. If most Democrats vote via absentee ballot then it will be the Republicans standing in the rain and the voting machines will not know how many have voted for Democrats for sure so they can't start deducting votes from the Democratic candidate, especially if there are no votes for the Democratic candidate on the machine.

We don't have to have verified voting. We only need to exercise our right to a paper ballot and we can do that by voting on an absentee ballot.

[magellan]

32. Do you hand count those OR absentee ballots?

Here in my FL county, all the votes including absentee ballots are run through an optical scanner and counted using a DIEBOLD GEMS AccuVote tabulator. Which means no matter how I vote, it can be messed with.

[Arugula Latte]

35. Yep, they're run through a scanner here.

Not hand counted.

[ComerPerro]

9. That is what bothered me the most about accusations about Kerry flip-flops

I mean, wtf?

How do Republicans get away with it.

They shouted flip-flopper all day and night up to the election, and the media just happily repeated it.

But they are constantly showing glaring hypocracy and direct conflicts with previous positions, and no one ever calls them on it!

[flpoljunkie]

11. Cowardly Domenici sold out long ago to the fascist corporate Bush agenda.

And what is that he does with his hand when he talks--it is really weird and annoying.

[pacalo]

12. I called Mary Landrieu's office today

& when I asked what her position is on the filibuster issue, I was told, "Mary hasn't taken a position on it yet." Now that's a Democratic senator (who will be running for re-election in '06, I might add).

It's irritating enough to know the Repugs are rubberstamping this issue, but when a Democratic senator is complaisant about such a vital issue for the sake of being re-elected in a red state, it's enfuriating. Anyone who doesn't value the principle of filibusters in the Senate doesn't recognize the danger our democracy is in with the Republicans' radical power binge going on.

[Hippo_Tron]

28. She's up in '08

She wouldn't be in office now if her opponent wasn't such an evil bitch.

[pacalo]

29. Oops -- you're so correct! On both counts.

:hi:

[stevedeshazer]

13. I know how you feel

Same thing with Gordon "Pea Packer" Smith in my state.

His vote and total bullshit argument only ensures that I will work my ass off to get him VOTED OUT at the next available opportunity.

:grr:

[kaygore]

18. Wasn't Smith an ass on CSPAN

This state is only going to get more blue. The vote can't be rigged in Oregon. In fact, with Google going into The Dallas area, even that Republican stronghold will fall. Smith is simply silting his throat.

I called right after he spoke on CSPAN and called out his lies and misdirections, but the "I've got an advanced degree" guy who answered the phone (I out-degreed him, though) claimed that Smith did not lie or misrepresent. I guess Kerry was right in his CSPAN speech, say a lie enough and it becomes the truth.

Gordon Smith...we will NOT forget!

[stevedeshazer]

20. Yes.

He was a jerk.

[CBHagman]

21. Consider your back patted.

GOOD FOR YOU for calling them.

I caught part of the GOP senators' press conference on the filibuster, in which Grassley and Stevens and the like bloviated about how failure to vote on a nominee was unprecedented, and besides, the whole thing is so unfair. Where were these clowns when Clinton's judicial nominees waited years for a hearing, not even a vote, and even Rehnquist said the Senate wasn't confirming enough judges?

So good for you. Hold his feet to the fire.

[Gloria]

22. What esp. pisses me off is that I had called well over a month ago on this

and got this story about how he hadn't decided and the woman said she really thought that all of them should go home and stop acting like high school kids!!!

And that he had ALWAYS worked for the people of the state...blah blah blah...I said at the time that he's had a long career, he's close to retirement, and he doesn't need to follow the party line.

WHAT CRAPOLA!! He probably does have misgivings but has been pressured to conform.

[Nikki Stone 1]

24. "She hung up."---What frigging arrogance!

They are supposed to work for us. Well, supposed to....

[CatWoman]

25. It has been bought to my attention that a rag wing site posted this thread

on their site, and is ridiculing it.

To them I say stop the fucking inbreeding, get a fucking life, get a fucking clue, and try to do some good in the world.

[Gloria]

26. Which site? I'd like to know what assholes are offended by MY BEING

OFFENDED by the Domenici office...

Note to freepers: I sent of a letter to the local paper...

[WMliberal]

27. at least there's Bingamin (sp?)

I'm in VA with Allen and Warner. You'd think Warner and Domenici, with their decades of experience in the Senate, would at least flinch before destroying the most important rule in that institution. :shrug:

Don't get your hopes up. They're pukes through and through. For example, I remember Steve Bell, Domenici's Chief of Staff, telling my Legislative Policy class two years ago Domenici's idea of gun control is steadying the firing arm with the free arm.

[snowbear]

30. Write letters to the editors of all your papers telling them..

..that you were rudely hung up on.

They will totally ((( FLIP ))) at the negative PR.

Start writing!... Do it! :bounce:

[MADem]

33. That is a good idea

Send it to the biggest papers in your state, be VERY temperate in your remarks, do not exceed three or four paragraphs, but do mention the hanging up. Sign it, give them your address and phone (ask them not to publish it, of course) and your hometown.

They'll publish it, they love drama.

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[Catherine Vincent]

34. Domenici was caught picking his nose and looking at it while on tv.

This was either on the Senate floor or at one of the SOTUs.