Reid Hears The Base’s Roar, Pulls FISA/Telco Immunity Bill
Posted by Phoenix Woman on December 18, 2007
Check it out. Reid’ll probably bring it back after the recess, but we will (with Chris Dodd leading the way) just shout it down again. (Really, we don’t need the current “temporary” bill anyway — let it lapse.)
The base has been pissed at the leadership for months. This is an example of what the base can do for the leadership when they stand up against Bush.
Here are the number of calls and e-mails that went to Congress just via Dodd’s site; lots more went out via DFA and DailyKos and FDL and Eschaton and Salon, to name just the ones off the top of my head.
11,300+ people emailed the Senators (16,000 people visited the page, a 75% follow through rate)…
506,000+ emails were sent to the Senate…
5,700+ comments were submitted through the website (350+ were posted on Twitter) in 7 hours…
135+ people joined the Facebook group since 11am…
340 people reported the phone calls they made to the Senate…
Quite simply, between Chris Dodd’s leadership and your activism, we were able to stop retroactive immunity today. The fight will continue next month, but with support like this I am confident that we can resume this fight and move towards victory.
