Suggestion for an e-mail to Sen. Landrieu:

[newswolf56]

Dear Senator Landrieu:

Ma'am, I am frankly appalled by your opposition to filibustering the appointment of Samuel A. Alito Jr.

You of all people -- having experienced firsthand the methodical tyranny of the Bush Administration as demonstrated by the aftermath of Katrina -- should understand what is at stake here: literally the survival of American liberty.

While I understand the commendable protect-Louisiana-first instinct behind your reasoning, I respectfully submit it is profoundly misguided: speedy confirmation of the Alito appointment would not expedite Congressional enactment of additional post-Katrina relief. It would instead (by granting the president an imperial omnipotence utterly alien to American principles and tradition) merely guarantee that our entire nation could soon be reduced to the dis-empowered wretchedness the Bush Administration has deliberately left un-remedied in New Orleans and on the Gulf Coast -- a calculated neglectfulness that continues to cause untold suffering amongst your own constituents.

Please ma'am therefore reconsider; please O please support the filibuster.

Sincerely,



Landrieu's e-mail matrix is here:

http://landrieu.senate.gov/contact/index.cfm

(To those who sneer at "ma'am" and other archaic language as hopelessly quaint, it is a mandatory gesture of respect in the culture from which Ms. Landrieu comes.)

[FogerRox]

1. They will leave her hi & DRy

WOOT for the Filibuster- here

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x262847


Local office phone numbers for Senators

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=262959&mesg_id=262959

WOOT for the Filibuster

[stillcool]

2. here's mine...

Dear Senator Landrieu, I am not from Lousisiana, but when so few have the power to vote away the futures of all of us, I feel it necessary to make my case to stop Judge Alito from proceeding to the Supreme Court. I understand your reluctance to join your fellow democratic senators in the filibuster, for fear of using up the precious little time you have to get the basic necessities restored,to the people in your state. Have you considered, using the time afforded you by a filibuster to inform the rest of us on what is really going on in your state? There is no news in my state of Massachusetts on the needs, or condition of all those Louisianans displaced by hurricane Katrina. Please Senator, I sense your needs are great, but once this man is on the bench, it will be too late to save us all from the loss of our basic freedoms, the rule of law, and our constitution. Elections will be purely symbolic in nature, and there will be no opposition or disent. Surely you see what's at stake. Please reconsider, and join your fellow democrats in stopping this nomination, and informing the citizenry of what is really going on inside our federal government. Thank You.

[BigBearJohn]

3. I'm gonna send out both of these letters. Mind if I steal them?

[stillcool]

4. not at all...

I'm cruising trying to find the email addy's of the one's not willing to fili...keep getting side-tracked...

[newswolf56]

7. To find those e-mail addresses:

(1)-Google or Dogpile the full name of the senator complete with title (e.g., "Sen. Mary Landrieu");

(2)-Scan the page until you find the senator's personal website (this will be identified by a senate.gov/ URL);

(3)-Access the senator's website and search it until you find a "contact" or "contact us" icon;

(4)-Click on the "contact" icon, which should either take you directly to the e-mail matrix, or provide you another icon you can click on to bring up the e-mail matrix.

Good luck!

[newswolf56]

6. Go for it! (That's precisely why I posted it.) And thanks. (n/t)

[omega minimo]

8. Nicely done NW56. If we add our handwritten comments it adds weight to the

consideration in that office.

I'm sure you know (others may not) that offices at all levels of government use MULTIPLIERS for each contact, estimating the number of other people they think each email, call, fax, letter, postcard, etc, actually represents.

Elegant and eloquent (spitwad;) ) as per usual.

[ticapnews]

5. The points I made in my email on Friday

A) she said the Administration is moving too slowly to help the Katrina victims
B) the Senate will not grind to a halt if the filibuster succeeds - the Patriot Act expires February 3 and the GOP will want to act on that ASAP.
C) if she filibusters and we are successful, the president and Congressional GOP leaders will be so weakened she will be in a much better position to get relief for the Gulf States.
D) It's the right thing to do anyway.

[froshty1960]

9. Here's what I wrote her

Dear Senator Landrieu,

I have long been an admirer of yours. As I watched the horrors that Katrina wrought far away from New Orleans at a friend's house in NC, my heart went out to you because I know you had fought to get money to shore up the New Orleans levees. Again, as Rita hit the southwestern parts of Louisiana, I thought and prayed that the Senate would finally listen to you.

The truth is that the Republicans and the Republican-led Senate don't care about your state one bit. Any hopes that you might have that voting to confirm Alito or opposing a filibuster will win Republican support for your requests to help your state after its devastating tragedies are unfounded. They don't care--not about Louisiana, not about New Orleans, not about anyone. They will smear you in your future campaigns whether you support them or not, because that's what they're like. Remember, this is the same party that said that New Orleans should not be rebuilt and voted against your requests for levee funds.

Please, I urge you to support the filibuster proposed for the Alito debate. Women like me need to be able to control what happens to our bodies. The country needs to keep the system of checks and balances that were created by our founding fathers to prevent our president from becoming a dictator. Please take a stand for some of your long-time supporters and not for people who plan to blame you for what happened in New Orleans to earn a vote or two.

[in_cog_ni_to]

10. Thanks! I just emailed her, Thank you, sir!

:hi:

[mom cat]

11. That is great! I hear that her objection is that a filibuster would take

time away from dealing with the aftermath of Katrina and Rita.
In any case, your letter is true to the spirit of the gentile South... LOL ... it reminded me of my childhood there.

[newswolf56]

13. Spent two-thirds my boyhood in the South; grew up with its protocol. (n/t)

[Swamp Rat]

12. Merci beaucoup n/t