Because it seems to me that right now, the most urgent task
before us is to block Kavanaugh, I want to devote this issue of the newsletter
entirely to why we need urgently to do that, and how it can be done.
If that weren’t cause enough to delay this hearing until
after the November elections, there are now 132 indictments so far, implicating
Donald Trump in crimes and misdemeanors, some of them in violation of election
rules. He must be defanged of his “presidency” before wreaking any more
disaster on this nation.
And of course, there’s the matter of the Republicans
blocking Obama’s nomination to the Supreme Court, not to mention that the
Donald has already taken his own swipe previously in that effort.
Under the influence of Indivisible‘s post card campaign, I
wrote 100 e-mail letters to the Senate yesterday. It ate up maybe one and a
half hours of my time. Here’s how you can do it too, or if you are a person of
busy consequence, you may want to confine your efforts to writing only to the
seven wafflers in the Senate.
Here’s the link to the five column spread sheet breaking the list down (left to right) into
those who oppose the nomination (26) those who “lean” toward opposing it (18),
the wafflers (7), those who tend to support (14) and those who support the
nomination (34).
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1IhksP1EBXbIxirXRILNBOjTH89drJp8im3d2ELnvlSg/edit#gid=1913565360
Please click on the names of as many Senatorial aids as you
wish, then copy the name. Paste it onto a blank e-mail, putting Sir: or Madam:
(or if you can’t quite determine gender from the name) Sir or Madam: on the
subject line.
And finally, if you wish, copy/paste the letter you have generated for all, except the 26 true blue Senators, sign it, include your address, mention that you are a U.S. citizen, and send it off. Please forward this
newsletter to all your lists. Send as many letters as you have time
and conscience (and genuine alarm) to do. And, if you prefer, please at least consider writing to the 7 Senatorial wafflers.
I include sample letters I sent off
yesterday, plus one today to the Wafflers:
To Columns 2 through 5 (see link to spread sheet):
Date
Please convey this message to your Senator:
Senator:
Allow me to remind you that Sandra Day O’Connor whose pivotal
vote selected George Bush as an American President, some time later speculated
she may have made a mistake.
No one is infallible. For that reason it is critical for you
to exercise extreme discretion in evaluating the next Supreme Court Justice, a
nomination that may distort American Democracy for years to come.
Let me remind you of Kavanaugh’s qualifications:
He will protect Trump from accountability for the crimes in
which he is now implicated.
He will overturn Roe
vs. Wade, guaranteeing that millions of American women will be forced into back
alley abortions, resulting in many deaths, among them those
of women with children, creating many orphans.
He will dismantle what shredded environmental protections
remain, guaranteeing that life on
this planet has a limited time left to exist.
He will sabotage the Affordable Care Act at a time when
nearly 70% of Americans favor Medicare for All.
He will side with people of wealth over the well being of
working people, people on whom this country’s prosperity rests.
Because I know you care about the well being of your country, I
strongly urge you to do all in your power to reject his nomination.
Sincerely,
Name
U.S. Citizen
Address
and to those true blue Senators opposing his nomination:
Date
Please convey my message to your Senator:
Dear Senator:
You are one of 26 Senators opposing the nomination to the
Supreme Court of the United States Brett Kavanaugh. Between now, August 30 and
the hearing slated for September 4, little time remains.
My question is: why is Trump, who is now implicated in a
total of 132 indictments, still empowered to nominate people like Kavanaugh to
the bench? I urge you please to do all in your power to abort a nomination
which will only intensify the Trump disaster that has already reduced our
country to a laughing stock.
I don’t need to remind you of Kavanaugh’s qualifications:
He will protect Trump from accountability for the crimes in
which he is now implicated.
He will overturn Roe vs. Wade, guaranteeing that millions of
American women will be forced into back alley abortions, resulting in many
deaths, among them a large proportion those of women with children, creating
many orphans.
He will dismantle what shredded environmental protections
remain, this in the face of the Sixth Extinction, guaranteeing that life on
this planet has a limited time left to exist.
He will sabotage the Affordable Care Act at a time when
nearly 70% of Americans favor Medicare for All.
He will side with people of wealth over the well being of
working people, people on whom this country’s prosperity rests.
I urge you to aggressively horse trade with those Senators
waffling over this critical nomination urging them to grow some spine:
Donnelly, Heitkamp, Jones, McCaskill, Manchin, Collins, and Murkowski.
Because you care about the well being of our country, I
strongly urge you to do all in your power to reject his nomination.
Sincerely,
Signature
U.S. Citizen
Address
and a sample letter tailored to send to the 7 wafflers:
August 31, 2018
Please convey the message below to your Senator:
Dear Senator:
I urge you to reject the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh for
the SCOTUS. As one of seven Senators whose minds are not yet made up, I want to
raise two important questions:
You will be considering a nomination proposed by a president
implicated by a total of 132 indictments (so far), among them election law
violation.
Doesn’t this circumstance appear ever so slightly
aberrant? Or is your hesitation a matter of maintaining parlor room decorum in
the face of presidential high office, even if it happens to be occupied by a
racketeer?
There is also the matter of Republicans refusing to consider
Obama’s nomination for the Supreme Court in an election year. Yet, 2018 is also an election year, one to
whose consequences the Republicans imagine they are quite immune.
I urge you to do all in your power to oppose a nomination
that will drive the decisive coffin nail
in the United States’ pretensions of remaining a democratic state.
I need not remind you of Brett Kavanaugh’s qualifications:
He will protect Trump from accountability for the crimes in
which he is now implicated.
He will overturn Roe
vs. Wade, guaranteeing that millions of American women will be forced into back
alley abortions, resulting in many deaths, among them those
of women with children, creating many orphans.
He will dismantle what shredded environmental protections
remain, guaranteeing that life on this planet has a limited time left to exist.
He will sabotage the Affordable Care Act at a time when
nearly 70% of Americans favor Medicare for All.
He will side with people of wealth over the well being of
working people, people on whom this country’s prosperity rests.
Should the Senate, flying in the face of popular sentiment,
confirm this nomination, unpleasant surprises await in 2019.
I strongly urge you to do all in your power to reject his
nomination.
Sincerely,
Name
U.S. Citizen
Address
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