Please Help--Senate Votes on Tuesday to Steal Election
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Thank you! You’ve sent almost 20,000 e-mails to the Senate to stop the Democrats from stealing the election. We need more help immediately. Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev) has scheduled a vote on the DISCLOSE Act for Tuesday at 2:45pm.
The House has already passed the DISCLOSE Act. And it goes into effect 30 days after President Obama signs it. If you could forward this to your friends and family and if just one takes action, we can make it 40,000 letters to the Senate. Or if you could “friend” us on Facebook (click here) and then post a status about DISCLOSE mentioning our Take Action tab on our page and just one friend takes action—that’s an average of 400 letters to each senator! And resend an e-mail daily to them if you can.
We know many of you think it is pointless to e-mail very liberal Senators. Please know that it is not—letting them know that there are people that won’t just sit back and take whatever they try to dish out to us does matter. And even if we can’t always defeat awful bills, we can make them somewhat less disastrous, as we did with both Obamacare and the financial reg bill. And even the very liberal Californian Senators’ offices will count every e-mail from their constituents that they receive!
Also, some of you have received emails from your liberal Senators that sound reasonable. Here’s a few comments on the talking points in those letters.
1. Even if somehow the speech restrictions in this bill were constitutional, their uneven application would be a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment’s equal protection under the law. Even the left-leaning Sierra Club has labeled the DISCLOSE Act a two-tiered system that is “unfair and undemocratic" and that smaller grass-roots organizations would be disadvantaged because they lack the resources to cope with "the additional disclosure burdens." The unions and the big non-profits get to keep their free speech given to them in the January Supreme Court decision, but the corporations and small non-profits lose theirs.
2. Also, President Obama and some Democrats are dishonestly stating that the court’s decision would “open the floodgates for special interest, including foreign corporations, to spend without limit in our elections.” However, current federal law and Federal Election Commission regulations already ban foreign corporations from participating directly or indirectly in American elections. (see 2 U.S.C. § 441e and 2 U.S.C. 437g).
So here’s a hypothetical scenario of a result of this bill.
(For those interested, here’s a good link with information on the actual language and problems with the DISCLOSE bill, click here.)
Housekeeping issue: Some of you have had problems with our validation letters test used to ensure that your email letter is not generated by a computer. Evidently sometimes the computer programs that certain congressional offices use kick back that message. But when we've checked, the letters actually have gone through. So, your letters actually do make it through even if you keep getting the numbers back. But we’re sorry for any inconvenience.
The Washington Post has an excellent article on the details of this bill. In it the author Cleta Mitchell, a board member of the NRA and a campaign finance law attorney, declares that the true purpose of the perversely named DISCLOSE Act is to “silence congressional critics in the 2010 elections”! Let’s work hard to keep this from happening—please click here!
Thank you! You’ve sent almost 20,000 e-mails to the Senate to stop the Democrats from stealing the election. We need more help immediately. Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev) has scheduled a vote on the DISCLOSE Act for Tuesday at 2:45pm.
The House has already passed the DISCLOSE Act. And it goes into effect 30 days after President Obama signs it. If you could forward this to your friends and family and if just one takes action, we can make it 40,000 letters to the Senate. Or if you could “friend” us on Facebook (click here) and then post a status about DISCLOSE mentioning our Take Action tab on our page and just one friend takes action—that’s an average of 400 letters to each senator! And resend an e-mail daily to them if you can.
We know many of you think it is pointless to e-mail very liberal Senators. Please know that it is not—letting them know that there are people that won’t just sit back and take whatever they try to dish out to us does matter. And even if we can’t always defeat awful bills, we can make them somewhat less disastrous, as we did with both Obamacare and the financial reg bill. And even the very liberal Californian Senators’ offices will count every e-mail from their constituents that they receive!
Also, some of you have received emails from your liberal Senators that sound reasonable. Here’s a few comments on the talking points in those letters.
1. Even if somehow the speech restrictions in this bill were constitutional, their uneven application would be a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment’s equal protection under the law. Even the left-leaning Sierra Club has labeled the DISCLOSE Act a two-tiered system that is “unfair and undemocratic" and that smaller grass-roots organizations would be disadvantaged because they lack the resources to cope with "the additional disclosure burdens." The unions and the big non-profits get to keep their free speech given to them in the January Supreme Court decision, but the corporations and small non-profits lose theirs.
2. Also, President Obama and some Democrats are dishonestly stating that the court’s decision would “open the floodgates for special interest, including foreign corporations, to spend without limit in our elections.” However, current federal law and Federal Election Commission regulations already ban foreign corporations from participating directly or indirectly in American elections. (see 2 U.S.C. § 441e and 2 U.S.C. 437g).
So here’s a hypothetical scenario of a result of this bill.
Exampleville, Ohio has two people running for U.S. Congress—Mr. Democrat and Mr. Republican—in what promises to be a close race. Exampleville’s local Tea Party believes in Mr. Republican. The Tea Party wants to run ads highlighting Mr. Republican’s stance on cap and trade, federal spending, increased taxation, etc, but they don’t have enough money to fulfill the new highly complex reporting requirements from DISCLOSE. And DISCLOSE would force them to list their top donors, even if they are not necessarily the specific donors to the ads, in their ads. Besides, the disclaimers required could take up to 14 of a 30 second ad. The Tea Party gives up trying to run ads to support Mr. Republican.
In contrast, Mr. Democrat has some well-funded unions who want to see Exampleville’s factories unionized, so the unions run ads against Mr. Republican and ads for Mr. Democrat. Also, the Sierra Club and the ACLU (groups actually opposed to DISCLOSE) want Mr. Democrat to support their issues, so they also run ads for Mr. Democrat. None of these ads are subject to DISCLOSE’s requirements.
Guess who wins?
(For those interested, here’s a good link with information on the actual language and problems with the DISCLOSE bill, click here.)
Housekeeping issue: Some of you have had problems with our validation letters test used to ensure that your email letter is not generated by a computer. Evidently sometimes the computer programs that certain congressional offices use kick back that message. But when we've checked, the letters actually have gone through. So, your letters actually do make it through even if you keep getting the numbers back. But we’re sorry for any inconvenience.
The Washington Post has an excellent article on the details of this bill. In it the author Cleta Mitchell, a board member of the NRA and a campaign finance law attorney, declares that the true purpose of the perversely named DISCLOSE Act is to “silence congressional critics in the 2010 elections”! Let’s work hard to keep this from happening—please click here!
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