Bradley Whitford on Telecom Immunity: Call Your Senators Now
By Nicole Belle Sunday Dec 09, 2007 6:15pmGuest post by Julia Rosen. Julia is the Online Political Director for the Courage Campaign and is an editor at Calitics
Bradley Whitford took time out from a film shoot in Calgary to make this video on the importance of opposing retroactive immunity for telecom companies that wiretapped Americans without a warrant. He is calling on all of us to contact our Senators and ask them to support Sen. Dodd's promised filibuster.
Telecom immunity is scheduled to be discussed this week and it is crucial that all of our Senators hear from us before they vote. We need 40 votes to sustain Sen. Dodd's filibuster, if it comes to that.
The Courage Campaign teamed up today with CREDO Action (from Working Assets) to send this video out to all of our members asking them to call Senator Dianne Feinstein. You can report back on your calls to Sen. Feinstein here and find all of her regional office numbers.
Or, if you don't live in California, use the Capitol Switchboard number to reach your Senator 202.224.3121. Flood their phone lines and fill up their voicemail!
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Unfortunately, calling my senators, Kay Bailey Hutchinson and Man-on-Box-Turtle-Sex John Cornyn is akin to calling Dubya and saying, "Please stop being an asshole."
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Immunity for the telecom companies,immunity for KBR and Halliburton.....geeezzz look what they've done to this country.
We should'nt have to call and ask our senators to do this.
They should filibuster without us (reminding them)
why would they need to be reminded to filibuster a vote like this anyway?
in case they forget or something?
Bradley Whitford, another communist pot smoking puppy eating Hollywood hippie. Why should we listen to him? Because he's right. Go Dodd Go!!!!
Call my senators? Why bother? Dodd and Lieberman? One's too busy running hopelessly for president and the other is a wacko.
marie, it might be worth it with Dodd
but i agree why should we even have to call them? don't they have any moral fiber or care about us, the people, at all? the even thought of someone thinking of giving telecom immunity sickens me. here these companies can completely ruin a person's life giving all their info up and be 100% without penalty for what they do wrong?
we all had such high hopes getting a dem house and senate and where the hell has it done a damn thing for anyone? we elect hillary prez it's gonna be more of the same.
let's shake things up
No need to call chris bond. He hasn't responded to my letters in years. The last response to a letter (several yrs. ago) was "thank you for your letter. I appreciate your opinion BUT........
He fits in with bush. DEAF EARS.
Wanna know something hilarious... I switch my phone service to CREDO, but the phone hasn't arrived yet (might be waiting at home while I'm here at work) and my current phone service was disconnected this morning. The whole reason I switched was because I didn't want to give money to companies that participated in the warrentless wiretapping program. So, now I can't call Dianne Feinstein to pressure her not to support telecom immunity because I switched carriers to one that wasn't involved in the scandal to begin with!
Hahaha... HA... ha... h- ah shi.
You can forget about Bayh, never even bothered with Luger.
NO. Use these toll-free numbers. Simply tell the operator to connect you to any office. The call is FREE. Post these numbers on every board and include in all your e-mail. You need to be calling several times every day. Don't just call your reps. Any member who works on any committee represents you. So call 'em all.
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Bradley Whitford doing Wisconsin proud. I am lucky enough to have at least one Senator who usually falls on the right side of the issues. I would comment on Herb Kohl but he lays to low for mention.
Unfortunately, my Senate "representative" is difi - and we know where her loyalties lie..... don't we?
#12, if you call Difi, she will tell you to "shut the fuck up, she knows what's best, oh, and you're free".
Jeez, though, he looks like hell - puffy, pale, old. I hope it's for the film, as I've always liked him (his work, at least).
I love Brad Whitford!
Hill @ 1:
I hear ya. I'm in the state just to the north of you and I've got Coburn and Inhofe. Those bastards are so rotten they both voted against the McCain Detainee Amendment banning torture two years ago and they were only 2 of 9 to do so.
It was sad when Dodd told Ed Schultz he could go out to dinner before being asked his first question at the debates
Joshua Lyman, it has indeed been a long time. This man was once one of the greatest minds in the Democratic party. His experience as Deputy Chief of Staff for President Bartlet gives him more legitimacy than any of those so called politicians in office now.
Sorkin/Schlamme 08
Is there a site I can wager that the bill will get though and the filibuster will land flat on its ass ? Could make a few $ on that one ......
budda @ 6:
A little off-topic, but it does address the issue of public knowledge. Our local media is printing the names and respective salaries of each and every public official and employee in the area, including teachers, deputies, etc.; I think they've published that of two counties in neighboring VA and more are on the way. Apparently it is lawful, and the local TV station defended the action by declaring that the employees work for the public and that we citizens have a right to know because it is "our money."
I for one do not see the need for this. If they want to give me the average teacher salary in the county, fine. If they want to give me the low and high salaries, fine. But listing names too? Last time I checked, I wasn't aware that the public got to vote or have input on how much we paid teacher John Jones and sheriff Ed Smith. What's next, medical histories of everyone? Why not? If a particular person is going to be in charge of my child and will be in close proximity to him or her, I have a right to know if they are medically up to the job or if my child is at risk. Right? Right?????
budda @ 6:
Yeah, why bother to contact your Senator and demand they do something? After all, if it's not handed to you on a gold platter, who wants these freedoms?
It's not Martin Luther King Jr. had to march and get hit by rocks, shot at, and assassinated. He didn't have to fight back. He could just sit back, sure that his Senators (Arch-racist Richard B. Russell, Jr. 1933-71; anti-civil rights stalwart Herman E. Talmadge 1957-81) were going to do the right thing.
What planet really do you folks live on, before you come here for vacations? Because around here, you have to fight for EVERYTHING, unless you are already in the privileged classes who can just sit back and have it all delivered to your taste.
don't hate me @ 10 "Any member who works on any committee represents you."
In the context of that committee ONLY.
Also, the conference committee is where any such amendment can be stripped. Given that the Dem House leadership has uniformly rejected ANY immunity grant, it would be worth contacting (politely pressuring) Leader Hoyer, Rep. Clyburn, Rep. Lewis, Rep. Emanuel (and others, including the Speaker) to insist that any Senate immunity grant is stripped from the bill in conference.
That would be more effective than trying to get Feinstain to not put forward her amendment (which she will certainly do).
I always thought his name was Whitford Bradley.
Sounds more dignified,
I would contact my senator, but I don't have one. DC VOTING RIGHTS NOW.
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