Wednesday, June 26, 2013

Amnesty critics flood Senate with phone calls, Boehner deterred from bringing Senate bill to House

Well, something positive on the immigration front.

NRO’s Jonathan Strong tweets that Boehner says he won't bring the Senate immigration bill to the House floor...


And much of that is likely due to YOU! Conservatives, Americans, are bombarding Senate phone lines before a final vote on this Schumer-Rubio amnesty bill...
TheDC: Critics of the Democrat-led immigration rewrite are bombarding Senate offices with thousands of phone calls, and advocates say those calls are keeping numerous wayward GOP Senators from joining the Democrats’ immigration bill.

“Five hundred [calls] yesterday, and right now, they’re just ringing non-stop,” said an upset staffer at the office of Mississippi Republican Sen. Roger Wicker, who has voted on both sides of the dispute.

Protestors have sent “hundreds or thousands” of calls to Ohio Republican Sen. Robert Portman’s Republican office, a staff member told The Daily Caller.

“That vast majority of calls today have been on that… [and] we’ve been getting calls on that for a couple of weeks,” said a staffer working for Pennsylvania Democrat Sen. Robert Casey.

The calls have stiffened the spine of GOP Senators who might otherwise bend to pressure from business groups and from influential people in their home state, such as editorial writers and clerics, said Roy Beck, executive director of NumbersUSA, which provides a free phone service for Americans who oppose the massive rewrite.
Thank you Roy Beck & NumbersUSA...keep fighting, America! (numbers provided in link!)