SamuelAlito.com and Pressuring "Pro-Choice Republicans"

[AaronforAmerica]

After successful Netroots collaborations on StopJohnBolton.com and StopJohnRoberts.com (where we were able to launch an online 30 second TV ad that was scripted by bloggers and netroots activists), we have implemented many of the ideas that you sent us in our new website: www.SamuelAlito.com

The idea voiced by many of you was to try a unique petition angle to pressure the four Senators who call themselves “pro-choice Republicans” to vote NO on Samuel Alito. As with many of you, I am appalled that a “pro-choice Republican” could even consider voting in support of Samuel Alito. This is the same judge who wrote in a 1985 memo that “the Constitution does not protect the right to an abortion.”

Please help Lincoln Chafee remember the rights of the people who elected him from Rhode Island, where 63 percent of citizens are pro-choice and just 32 percent oppose choice. Put the heat on Arlen Specter from Pennsylvania where 51 percent are pro-choice and just 44 percent oppose choice. Remind Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe that 63 percent of people in Rhode Island are pro-choice and just 32 percent oppose choice.

www.SamuelAlito.com

But this is not the only issue. In the honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., former Vice President Al Gore eloquently addressed what can happen when the federal government abuses its power to secretly wiretap American citizens:

“And on this particular Martin Luther King Day, it is especially important to recall that for the last several years of his life, Dr. King was illegally wiretapped-one of hundreds of thousands of Americans whose private communications were intercepted by the U.S. government during that period.

The FBI privately labeled King the "most dangerous and effective Negro leader in the country" and vowed to "take him off his pedestal."”

In 1984, Samuel Alito wrote that an executive branch official that approved of wiretapping American citizens should be immune from prosecution. Please consider stopping by www.SamuelAlito.com and share your thoughts with these Senators.

We need to encourage our Senators to avoid a return to the dark history of the government encroaching upon our civil liberties.

[Czolgosz]

1. Good post. Thanks.

[diamondsndust]

2. done...... n/t

[mom cat]

3. Great site. I highly recommend it. I added this comment:

Alito has made it clear that he does not think that the Constitution protects a woman's right to choose or protects us against Presidential spying. He was caught red handed in a conflict of interest that would have had state judges thrown off the bench and, for someone with a keen memory, it is incredulous that he cannot remember his membership in a sexist, racist organization that he once touted to get a job. Either he is a liar about his memory, or he was willing to say anything in earlier years to get a job. In either case, his ethics (especially when combined with the Vangard conflict of interest) are not what we need now in a time of such scandal. The Republicans could help their image right now by repudiating Alito for his ethical lapses.

[AX10]

4. Thank you!

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