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Sep. 18th, 2006 06:32 pmI know that political posts push some people's buttons like whoa, but this is just too important for me to put entirely behind a cut.
The United States Senate will be voting this week on whether to issue a PARDON to George W. Bush for illegal wiretapping of, and possibly other crimes committed against, American citizens.
MoveOn.org has a convenient email petition form set up, which will add your name to a list of electronic signatures to be presented to both the Senate and the House of Representatives denouncing the proposed pardon and asking members of Congress to vote against it.
I have already signed the petition via this form, and added the text behind the cut below to my message. Because faxed letters are given more weight by most Congresspeople than emails, phone calls or even snail-mailed letters, however, I will also be faxing each of my Senators individually tomorrow.
While I'm at it, I will gladly fax a letter to anyone else's Senators on their behalf. All I need is the text you would like in your letter (a personal note addressing each Senator's record and/or history is helpful but not necessary), the names and fax numbers of each of your Senators, and a graphic file with your signature -- you can do this right in a graphics program if you don't have access to a scanner, just be sure that it is either saved at 300 dpi or higher, or appears approximately three times the size of your normal signature on the screen.
( What I added to the standard MoveOn.org petition text )
Using either the text of the MoveOn.org petition or what I wrote is better than not saying anything to your Senators, but correspondence whose text is identical to other senders' is granted less weight by politicians, so use your own words unless you really can't think of anything different to say.
Comments are screened by default, so that only I will see the real names, addresses and signatures of anyone who wants me to send a fax for them (feel free to post such comments anonymously if you prefer not to have your name associated with your LJ) but other comments will be un-screened unless you request otherwise.
Edited to add: Contact information for elected government officials at all levels for all states can be found here. That site also offers an "Extra Impact" service -- someone will hand-deliver your letter to a member of Congress to their offices in Washington, for about US$9 per letter, for those who have the extra money to throw at this outrage.
The United States Senate will be voting this week on whether to issue a PARDON to George W. Bush for illegal wiretapping of, and possibly other crimes committed against, American citizens.
MoveOn.org has a convenient email petition form set up, which will add your name to a list of electronic signatures to be presented to both the Senate and the House of Representatives denouncing the proposed pardon and asking members of Congress to vote against it.
I have already signed the petition via this form, and added the text behind the cut below to my message. Because faxed letters are given more weight by most Congresspeople than emails, phone calls or even snail-mailed letters, however, I will also be faxing each of my Senators individually tomorrow.
While I'm at it, I will gladly fax a letter to anyone else's Senators on their behalf. All I need is the text you would like in your letter (a personal note addressing each Senator's record and/or history is helpful but not necessary), the names and fax numbers of each of your Senators, and a graphic file with your signature -- you can do this right in a graphics program if you don't have access to a scanner, just be sure that it is either saved at 300 dpi or higher, or appears approximately three times the size of your normal signature on the screen.
( What I added to the standard MoveOn.org petition text )
Using either the text of the MoveOn.org petition or what I wrote is better than not saying anything to your Senators, but correspondence whose text is identical to other senders' is granted less weight by politicians, so use your own words unless you really can't think of anything different to say.
Comments are screened by default, so that only I will see the real names, addresses and signatures of anyone who wants me to send a fax for them (feel free to post such comments anonymously if you prefer not to have your name associated with your LJ) but other comments will be un-screened unless you request otherwise.
Edited to add: Contact information for elected government officials at all levels for all states can be found here. That site also offers an "Extra Impact" service -- someone will hand-deliver your letter to a member of Congress to their offices in Washington, for about US$9 per letter, for those who have the extra money to throw at this outrage.
