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General Categories => Laws and Legislation => Topic started by: Glock 1 on July 16, 2009, 08:43:57 PM
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I received the ALERT from the NFOA on sotomayer!! I sent emails to both B.Nelson and M. Johanns urging them both to vote AGAINST her confirmation!! I was very blunt and to the point on her possible bastardization of the 2nd Amendment and the Constitution!
I URGE and EXPECT every member of this Association to send emails and Bombard our Senators with our position!! I truly believe that Johannswill vote AGAINST with regards to all his communications with me! (I send emails to both Sens. and A. Smith twice weekly)
With regards to Sen. Nelson, He's a "brownshirt" who will vote his party despite what it means with regards to our rights as Gunowners!
Let's put the pressure on them and ask to rally others for support of our agenda!
Thanks!
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Sent my letter. I think it's time for Ben Nelson to go the way of Hagel.
Don't forget to call Senator Nelson and Johanns
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Nelson needs to be reminded that he serves the people of Nebraska, not the Democratic Party, vote and fund his opponent in the next election...
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I just reminded him again that he represents Nebraska, he is voting for Nebraska, not his new best friends.
If he votes for her, I will make it my personal goal to get him voted out, and devote 100% of my focus on that goal. And trust me, Nelson does not want my complete and undivided attention.
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I agree with you! I told Nelson in my letter that I would look at his vote record and would hold him responsible for any attack on my 2nd Amendment right.
This guy is a squib!!!! In one response from him 2 weeks ago he told me he believed in reasonable restrictions with regards to my gun rights!
I fired off another email to him and informed he to explain his reasoning. I informed him of my rights and explained I didn't want to hear about "reasonable restrictions". Guess what? The frog in his response says he believes in "reasonable procedures"!
This idiot is something else! Now, I'm sure he's sitting at his computer answering emails, Right? I doubt it!! He's got some ragged tooth intern with an Ivy league education who thinks they're the next Atilla-the-hun!!!!!
Send those messages! I'll be sending another round of letters of my own on Friday night!!!!!!!
Thanks!
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Did my part, sent in an email to both of them.
I agree with you, if either of them votes to actually put this crazy woman into the Supreme Court we need to make sure they are *NOT* re-elected.
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Sent my emails yesterday. Received a "thanks" from Johanns.
No response from Nelson.
Interesting.
Sometimes I wonder if the liberal DC-based staffers in some of our legislators' offices are "selective" when it comes to how many and which emails our representatives actually see.
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Sent my emails yesterday. Received a "thanks" from Johanns.
No response from Nelson.
Interesting
Sometimes I wonder if the liberal DC-based staffers in some of our legislators' offices are "selective" when it comes to how many and which emails our representatives actually see.
Update: This little gem was buried in a World Herald article about Johann's views on the Ag Secretary's cap-and-tax, errr... trade legislation:
WASHINGTON ? Judge Sonia Sotomayor did well in her confirmation hearings last week, Sen. Ben Nelson said Tuesday.
The Nebraska Democrat had expressed initial concerns about past statements by the Supreme Court nominee, but he said Tuesday that those concerns have been laid to rest.
?She explained away what she meant and how it came out differently, perhaps, than she had anticipated and perhaps was also taken differently than she intended,? Nelson said.
Nelson said he still wants to see what the Senate Judiciary Committee does with the nomination before deciding how he will vote.
BEN'S NOT LISTENING... if you haven't sent that email or made that phone call... do it now!
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Did anyone get their letter back yet from Johannes that he promised to send?
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Did anyone get their letter back yet from Johannes that he promised to send?
No, but it's only been a couple days since I emailed them.
On the other hand, I've still received nothing, not even an acknowledgement of receiving my email, from Nelson's office. Does anyone who has contacted him before know if that's standard operating procedure?
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I don't know what Nelson's standard procedure is, but I didn't get any acknowledgement either. I suppose most of these politicians get a lot of mail, and there is probably no way they could actually respond to everything and still get anything else done (like they do, anyway?). Still, when it comes to computer-based contacts they should all be able to send an automated response so you at least know they got your message. Maybe Nelson had a power surge like the DMV!
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From my past letters to Nelson's office I usually got a written response back in the mail, generally after whatever action that is being written about has completed in the Senate.
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Get back on it folks, the time is now to bombard him.
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Get back on it folks, the time is now to bombard him.
Preach on, brother Rat... preach on.
A news story on KFAB today said Nelson said he's "waiting to decide on how he votes on the Sotomayor nomination." He says he's spending the time "convincing himself that she will not be an activist judge."
Good luck with that Ben... but I digress.
This is a change from his statement immediately following the judiciary committee hearings, when he said he "liked what he saw, felt she would judge objectively and not be an activisty" (which is a load of bull).
So... he's hearing from people, folks... and he's getting nervous. Like my good friend LilRat says NOW IS THE TIME!!! Don't let off the gas!!!
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just read this. outlook doesn't look promising.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090802/ap_on_go_su_co/us_sotomayor_nra
NRA loosing its power in DC?
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From the linked article:
It was cautious about breaking that pattern..."
And therein lies the problem: the NRA... the N-freaking-RA... one of the most powerful lobby's in DC... BLINKED. The anti-gunners smelled blood in the water, and now the NRA is about to be castrated by the media as "ineffective." See what happens when you try to play "nice"...?
Asked whether he was worried about ruining his perfect NRA score and endorsement by opting to vote for Sotomayor, Nelson paused and said with a smile, "I'd probably have a good rating regardless."
Smile when I do everything I can to ruin your next election, Ben. I don't give a rat's hind end what your "rating" is... I WILL get involved with whoever is running against you and donate time and money to get your sorry @ss out of DC if you vote to approve Sotomayor.
But it stopped short of saying it would include the vote on her confirmation in its political ratings.
Why the hell not?!?!?! THIS IS THE PROBLEM, PEOPLE! The NRA is playing "nice," when the Dems are playing for keeps. After all these years of playing hardball, they've finally fallen into the DC "let's just all get along so we all get invited to the right parties" mentality.
In the days since, other senators have inquired privately as to how much they could hurt themselves by supporting Sotomayor, only to be given an ambiguous answer: It's too early to tell.
HEY NRA!!!! I'm not paying your membership fees so you can be cute. Lay down the law like you used to: a "yes" vote is going to hurt you. Period."
Good Lord, is LaPierre paying attention to what his people are saying? This woman is a MAJOR THREAT to 2nd Amendment rights!
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Well, let's hope the NRA backs up its threats and these turncoats get booted out next election (assuming there's someone better running against them).
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??? ??? ??? ??? >:( ::)
Prime example of why we formed the NFOA.
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Nelson is going to support Sotomayor.
http://www.omaha.com/article/20090803/NEWS01/708039841
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Nelson is going to support Sotomayor.
http://www.omaha.com/article/20090803/NEWS01/708039841
Not surprised at all.
Vote him out!!!!!!
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We'll see if he's still smiling when the NRA gives him a lower rating next time. Email NRA and push them that way, since they seemed to be waffling a bit.
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We'll see if he's still smiling when the NRA gives him a lower rating next time. Email NRA and push them that way, since they seemed to be waffling a bit.
Good call... the NRA blinked on this one, and got caught between the eyes. If they don't hit back hard, they'll be declared "ineffectual" and "no longer a consideration" for legislators by the lefties in the media.
It's interesting that the AP article in the World-Herald (which cited the Journal Star as the source, now THAT's funny) only mentioned that the NRA has threatened to "downgrade senators' ratings". No mention of why... don't want too many people to know what she actually said?..... there was no mention of the Ricci vs. New Haven decision, the "wise Latino" comment or any other issue either. Wonder why they only mentioned the NRA threat? Perhaps that's where he was getting the most blowback?
It's also interesting that three days after saying he's "thinking about it," he jumps on board. Musta got a phone call.
I'm headed off the NRA website now.
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I'll be there, too, as soon as I'm done walking my dogs and washing my truck. (Not that either of those are more important!) There was an angry letter to the editor in today's LJS about Nelson (and others) not announcing their decisions soon enough for their constituents to try and change their minds if they considered the decision a mistake. I thought that was kind of silly. Give them your opinions before they make their decisions so they don't have to risk appearing like they don't know what they want should they feel like reversing themselves.
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It looks like his decision would not make a difference in the overall vote, she is in regardless of whether Nelson votes for her or not. His vote reflects his true opinion, now we have proof that he is an idiot who does not care about his constituents, only his standing with the Dims. He is now going to get my complete and undivided attention, Game on, Ben.
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Oh, and while I'm thinking about it...
...be sure and post a "comment" on the Nelson article at the Journal-Star website. I've been told that Nelson's staff reviews the "comments" Nelson stories get on the website to see what people back home are saying.
Yea, you'll have to "sign up" with a username and password, but if it's getting to his office, well... that's more than I know about the emails I send him.
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I emailed Nelson and took him to task about his vote on Holder. I recieved no reply. I also emailed him about sotomayer and recieved no reply.
We need to work togather and defeat this guy next election. We also need to contact the NRA and get them to jerk his A rating.
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Hope to God that Soto is not BO's key to future 2nd amendment attacks!
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I got a response from the NRA today from the email I sent yesterday asking that they do, indeed, use the confirmation votes as part of their basis in rating future candidates. I was assured that they will and that had also sent letters to every member of the Senate to make sure they knew, too. Here is the link to a pdf version of the letter they sent: http://www.nraila.org/media/PDFs/Sotomayor.pdf (http://www.nraila.org/media/PDFs/Sotomayor.pdf)
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BTW, here is a link to an article explaining Nelson's decision, in case anyone is interested. I'm not even sure how, or why I started getting emails from statepaper.com, but they have so far seemed to do a better job of reporting things than most news services.
http://nebraska.statepaper.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2009/08/05/4a79c149726f6 (http://nebraska.statepaper.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2009/08/05/4a79c149726f6)
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Does anyone who where Senator Ben Nelson and Johanns are at? I thought that they were to tour the state to mingle with their constituents this week. Let me know.
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If you find out, let us know. He won't be hard to spot. Nelson will be the guy with the goofy hair and a yellow streak on his back.
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You got it. I should have some leads tomorrow. The Norfolk Daily News reported last week the Ben would be in Norfolk along with other Nebraska sites (Omaha) to mingle with us voters.