Roberts alert from PFAW: Call your Senator ASAP

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We Have to Be in a Fight to Win One


If your senators support voting rights, women's rights, environmental rights, privacy rights, and reproductive rights, demand they stand up for their values by voting
NO ON ROBERTS

Call:
Sen. Dianne Feinstein
Phone: [phone]
Sen. Barbara Boxer
Phone: [phone]
Tell us how your calls go by visiting
www.SaveTheCourt.org/CallReport

Write:
SaveTheCourt.org/VoteNoOnRoberts

If you want to send a message to senators who don't claim to champion these issues, tell them they ought to.





"All Americans, of every race, of every religion or nationality, whether they are women or men, gay or straight, or people with disabilities … need equal access to a fair and independent judiciary to ensure 'equal justice under the law.' "

--Rep. John Lewis, testifying in opposition to Roberts' nomination




It's not just about winning or losing, it's about whether our leaders are willing to defend our core values.

We won't lie to you -- John Roberts did a great job smooth-talking his way through his hearings (while saying very little). With some notable exceptions, few senators were appropriately outraged at Roberts' appalling record, non-responsiveness, and deceptive answers. Some of our leaders seem afraid to take a stand against Roberts.

Progressive activists have long been demanding that their leaders take principled stands for our core values -- voting rights, women's rights, environmental rights, privacy rights, and reproductive rights. Now is the time for us to remind our leaders that their job is to do the right thing. The vote on Roberts' nomination is about much more than whether he should become our nation's next chief justice. It's about whether our leaders are going to stand up for our core values or cave when push comes to shove.

The progressive community needs to remind our national leaders that if they won't stand up for our values when we need them, we won't be there for them. We need to hold our leaders accountable -- tell them to vote no on Roberts because it's the right thing to do.

To paraphrase the late Sen. Paul Wellstone, we have to be in a fight to win one. The battle over Roberts is a crucial installment in our ongoing war against the right wing's effort to roll back the progressive gains of the last century. No one's guaranteeing that we'll win this round, but we cannot desert the battlefield.

If your senators support voting rights, women's rights, environmental rights, privacy rights, and reproductive rights, demand they stand up for their values by voting NO ON ROBERTS.


For Californian's Call:
Sen. Dianne Feinstein
Phone: [phone]
Sen. Barbara Boxer
Phone: [phone]

National toll free number for Senate:
800-828-0498 and 800-SOB-USOB (800-762-8762)


Tell us how your calls go by visiting http://www.SaveTheCourt.org/CallReport

Write:
http://www.SaveTheCourt.org/VoteNoOnRoberts

If you want to send a message to senators who don't claim to champion these issues, tell them they ought to.

--Your Allies at People For the American Way


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