Make a 'House Call' to Your South Dakota Congressman
Steve Elliott, President Grassfire.org
Steve Elliott, President, Grassfire.org Alliance
This Thursday, Rep. Michele Bachmann, Mark Levin and others are calling on citizens to make a "House Call" on Congress. Many citizens are traveling to D.C. to personally visit their members of Congress, but of course the vast majority will not be able to make that trip.
We have arranged a way for you to participate in Thursday's "House Call" without traveling to D.C. -- by hand-delivering your personal letter to members of Congress.
In order to have your personal letter hand-delivered as part
of Thursday's "House Call", your order must be placed
by NOON Central time on Wednesday. Please see
below for more information and go here to place
your order:
http://www.grassfire.net/r.asp?U=22693&CID=122&RID=21458445
Steve Elliott
+ + GRASSFIRE SPECIAL REPORT:
PELOSI HEALTHCARE BILL "WORST BILL EVER"
The Wall Street Journal is calling Nancy Pelosi's 1,990-page government takeover of healthcare the "worst piece of post- New Deal legislation ever introduced."
The Journal says it will create an "unrepealable middle class entitlement" that will cause taxes to "rise precipitously" and
will result in "all medicine" being "rationed via politics." The CBO cost estimate is coming in at $1.055 trillion and that's just scratching the surface. The Journal says "ObamaCare will be lucky to cost under $2 trillion over 10 years; it will grow more after that."
Go here to access Wall Street Journal's excellent analysis of what it calls the "worst bill ever":
http://www.grassfire.net/r.asp?U=22694&CID=122&RID=21458445
+ + Bill loaded with taxes, fines, penalties and regulations
In case there was any doubt left that ObamaCare is a massive,tax-increasing power grab, consider what our Grassfire research team unearthed about the words used in Pelosi's bill:
--181 instances of "penalty" or "penalties"
--214 times "tax", "taxes", "taxable" or "taxpayer" are recorded
--90 usages of "fee" and "fees"
..A total of 494 times any form of the words penalty, surcharge, tax, fine or fee are used!
--941 instances of "require(s)", "required" or "requirement"
--106 times the words "obligation(s)" or "obligate(d)" occur
--221 usages of "regulate" or "regulation(s)"
--110 times "impose(d)" or "imposes" are used
..A total of 1,464 times any form of the words impose, require, mandate, obligation, license or regulation are used.
+ + Pelosi promising vote by as soon as Thursday
We are now bracing for a floor vote in the House as soon as Thursday or Friday. That means we have just a few days to get our message through loud and clear.
+ + Action #1 -- Hand-deliver your message directly to Congress
Grassfire has already delivered over 100,000 personal letters from citizens across the country to key members of Congress -- in just the past week.
This is the best way to make sure your message gets personally delivered to your two Senators, your Representative and other key members of Congress.
This is especially crucial this week. Please go here right
now to schedule your messages to be personally
hand-delivered:
http://www.grassfire.net/r.asp?U=22695&CID=122&RID=21458445
Each day's orders are delivered the next day, so please take a moment right now to schedule your hand-delivery.
+ + Action 2 -- Help flood Congress with petitions, phone calls and other contacts all week long.
In addition to the hand-delivered letters, Grassfire will also be hand-delivering each and every signed petition as part of a massive grassroots effort taking place this Thursday.
Grassfire hopes to rally 1 million citizen contacts (petitions, faxes, phone calls, letters) this Thursday, coinciding with Rep. Michelle Bachmann's call to join her in walking the halls of Congress and making sure the voice of citizens is heard.
Two ways you can help:
#1 -- Ask your friends to sign the petition by going here:
http://www.grassfire.net/r.asp?u=22701&PID=21458445
All petitions received by 6am Wednesday will be hand-delivered Thursday.
#2 -- Call! Call! Call!
Please call your two Senators and your Representative.
If they do not receive hand-delivered letters and calls and
other communications from constituents, they will assume
you support ObamaCare!
Rep. Herseth Sandin 202-225-2801
Sen. Johnson 202-224-5842
Sen. Thune 202-224-2321
Or, call the switchboard and ask for your member of Congress: 202-224-3121. Be sure to tell your Senators and Representative that you live in their state or district.
We have posted more information at ResistNet. Go here:
http://www.grassfire.net/r.asp?U=22696&RID=21458445
This is the final countdown to the showdown over ObamaCare. All hands on deck!
Steve Elliott, President
Grassfire.org
P.S. Please forward this message to your friends. We simply must have millions of citizens engaged THIS WEEK in this debate. To send your hand-delivered letters go here:
http://www.grassfire.net/r.asp?U=22697&CID=122&RID=21458445
For more on grassroots efforts:
http://www.grassfire.net/r.asp?U=22698&RID=21458445
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