I got off the phone awhile ago with Senator Jim Webb’s (D-VA) Richmond office. I talked to a very nice person, and explained that I would appreciate it if Senator Webb would vote “no” on cloture tomorrow. Poor woman sounded rather worn out, and her voice was somewhat strained. She was non-committal towards me, but the word is out that Webb will swing to voting, “no.”
Because I live in Virginia, I’ve been calling all of Senator Webb’s offices to register my opposition to cloture on the immigration bill. I haven’t been able to get through to his Washington office, but I actually got a live person on the phone at his Hampton Roads office. She told me that nothing has been officially announced, but that he’ll be voting no on cloture. I don’t know what that’s worth, but if you want to post that online so that people can keep on calling him, I think it would be helpful. Keep the pressure on!
Exactly. Keep making those calls. Make the constituent services people lose their voices for all the time on the phones. If you can’t get through, keep trying. Chances are you won’t get through to a key senator’s DC phone, so go to their US Senate website ([Senators last name].senate.gov) and look up the regional office nearest yourself. Call or fax. But do something.
We’ve got a chance to put a stake through the heart of this beast.
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