I am forwarding this message, I received, to all of you. You do whatever you see fit. I hope this is ok with the list server rules. wojtek dworak ============================================================================ Fellow Citizen, Thank you for signing EnoughIsEnough and for the work you've done in the November 3rd election and since. Act again now in whatever ways you can to stand up for what you believe in and against this terribly destructive partisan abuse of law and government. The actions and information below were gathered from the best of what's happening on the web. If we don't act, the President will be impeached. The majority leadership is trying to foreclose the option of censure. Without a censure option, many moderates will be compelled to vote impeachment. If impeachment passes on the House floor, the nation will be paralyzed for months as the President is put on trial in the Senate. 1. Related sites worth attention: o Censure and Move On http://www.moveon.org/ o People for the American Way http://www.pfaw.org/ o Online Jopurnal -- Stop Coup http://www.onlinejournal.com/Info_Central/StopCoup/stopcoup.html o Stop Starr Now http://hometown.aol.com/StopStarr2/index.html o Truth in America http://www.truthinamerica.org/page21.html oCitizens Campaign to Preserve the Elected Presidency http://www.beatlestribute.com/CCPEP.htm o Committee for the People's Choice http://www.freeyellow.com/members5/peopleschoiceforprez/index.html o Michael Moore http://www.MichaelMoore.com/ o Contacting Congress http://www.visi.com/juan/congress/ Much of this is reprinted from Censure and Move On http://www.moveon.org/ o FREE CALLS THRU WEDNESDAY (POSSIBLY LONGER). Call your Member of Congress. Constituents' calls are taken most seriously. CALL 1-877-TO-MOVEON (1-877-866-6836) and give the operator your zip code, to be connected to your representative for FREE. We have the toll-free line through Wednesday 12/16, and we have to keep up the pressure. You can call the congressional switch-board at any time directly at 1-202-224-3121. Once you reach your representative's office, let the staff member know: -- that you are a constituent (by giving your name and city) -- that you are opposed to impeachment, -- and that you expect Congress to immediately "MOVE ON" to important issues. Express your own personal concerns and ask for a response from your representative. Free calls are provided courtesy of Working Assets Long Distance (http://www.wald.com) and People for the American Way. If you get a busy signal, try again later or use the direct number 1-202-225-3121. Capitol Hill offices are open between 9am and 6pm EST. You can also leave voicemail after hours in many offices. If the Capitol Hill switchboard is busy, you can get your representative's direct number in Washington from the People For the American Way website. Click on http://www.moveon.org/actionplus.htm so they can count your call and report totals to the press. o Tell everyone you know about moveon.org and 1-877-TO-MOVEON. If you are a member of any existing organizations that might mobilize their membership -- give those contacts special attention. This kind of networking is extremely important. o Call the Speaker of the House. The incoming Speaker of the House, Bob Livingston, is really responsible for this process. If he lets his party members vote their conscience, impeachment will probably die and members will vote censure. If he continues to threaten the "full wrath of the Republican party" to members who break ranks, the President will be impeached on a purely partisan vote. Use the 1-877-TO-MOVEON number to call Bob Livingston's office now. If the toll free number is busy, call his office directly at 202-225-3015 (Washington office) or 504-589-2753 (local district office). Let his staff member know (1) that you are opposed to impeachment and support censure, (2) that you believe that your Member of Congress should be allowed to vote his/her conscience, and (3) that you expect Congress to immediately "move on" to important issues. o Contact Swing Votes. There is a short list -- getting shorter all the time -- of Members of Congress who are considered swing votes on impeachment. Go to http://www.moveon.org/swingvotes.htm for a list of key fence-sitting Members of Congress or see the info below. Calls denouncing impeachment and supporting censure could be very important in swaying fence sitters, or in emboldening mavericks breaking party lines. Dial 1-877-TO-MOVEON (1-877-866-6836) or dial direct if you're getting a busy signal. Start with Members of Congress in your state or region, and then work down the rest of the list as far as you can get. Urge them to serve as a Profile in Courage. It is high time GOP moderates to liberate their party from the extreme right and to stand up for the nation. Capitol Hill addresses are given below, as well. Follow up the calls with letters.Web pages are given as well, but using them for emailing Congressmen must vault you through a sophisticated filter system. Phoning and writing are most effective. Pass this list to others, and ask THEM to continue the chain. Just eleven anti-impeachment votes are needed. Fax numbers for swing and leadership votes/202 area code > Roukema: 2259048 Shays:2259629 > Skeen: 2259599 Franks:2259460 > Frlinghuysen:2253186 Castle:2252291 > Berman2253196 Johnson:2254488 > Porter:2250837 Ewing:2258071 > Pappas:2256025 Forbes:2253143 > Lazio:2254669 Trent Lott:2242262 > Daschle224-2047 Nickles2246008 > Ford2240046 Gingrich2254656 > Armey972-444-8626 Gephardt2257452 > DeLay2255241 Bonior2261169 > Fazio2255141 Boehlert:2251891 > Walsh:2254042 Paxson:2255910 > Tauzin:2250563 Ramstad:2256351 > Gutknecht:2253246 Myrick:2253389 > Ballenger:2250316 McCarthy2255758 > Maloney2254709 Boehlert2251891 > Paxon2255910 Greenwood:2259511 > Weldon:2258137 Pitts:2252013 > Wamp:2253494 Hyde:2251166 > Bono:2252961 Sensenbrenner:2253190 > McCollum2250999 Gekas2258440 > Coble2258611 Smith 2258628 > Gallegly2251100 Canady2252279 > Inglis2261177 Goodlatte2259681 > Bono2252961 Buyer??? > Bryant2252989 Chabot2253012 > Barr2253012 Jenkins255714 > Hutchinson2255713 Pease??? > Cannon2255629 Rogan2255828 > Graham2253216 Moderate Republicans Cong. Marge Roukema, New Jersey -- 202-225-4465 -- Rm. 2469 == Rayburn House Office Building Washington, D.C., 20515 http://www.house.gov/roukema/ Cong. Christopher Shays, Connecticut -- 202-225-5541 -- Rm. 1502 -- Longworth House Office Bldg.,Wash, D.C., 20515 http://www.house.gov/shays/ Cong. Robert Franks, New Jersey -- 202-225-5361 -- Rm. 225 -- Cannon House Office Bldg. Washington, D.C., 20515 http://www.house.gov/bobfranks/ Cong. Rodney P. Frelinghuysen -- New Jersey -- 202-225-5034 Rm. 228 -- Cannon House Office Bldg.Washington, D.C., 20515 http://www.house.gov/frelinghuysen/ Cong. Peter T.King -- New York -- 202-225-7896 Rm. 403 -- Cannon House Office Bldg.Washington, D.C., 20515 http://www.house.gov/king/ Cong. Michael N.Castle -- Delaware -- 202-225-4165 Rm. 1227 -- Longworth House Office Bldg. Washington, D.C., 20515 http://www.house.gov/castle/ Cong. Nancy L. Johnson -- Connecticut -- 202-225-4476 343 Cannon Office Building Washington, D.C., 20515 http://www.house.gov/nancyjohnson/ Cong. John Edward Porter -- Illinois -- 202-225-4835 2373 Rayburn House Office Bldg. Washington, D.C., 20515 http://www.house.gov/porter Cong. Thomas W. Ewing -- Illinois -- 202-225-2371 2417 Rayburn House Office Bldg. Washington, D.C., 20515 http://www.house.gov/ewing/ Cong. Michael Pappas -- New Jersey -- 202-225-5801 1710 Longworth House Office Bldg. Washington, D.C., 20515 http://www.house.gov/pappas/ Cong. Michael P. Forbes -- New York -- 202-225-3826 416 Cannon House Office Bldg.Washington, D.C., 20515 http://www.house.gov/forbes/ Cong. Rick Lazio -- New York -- 202-225-3335 2444 Rayburn House Office Bldg. Washington, D.C., 20515 http://www.house.gov/lazio/ Cong. Sherwood L. Boehlert -- New York -- 202-225-3665 2246 Rayburn House Office Bldg. Washington, D.C., 20515 http://www.house.gov/boehlert/ Cong. James T. Walsh -- New York -- 202-225-3701 2351 Rayburn House Office Bldg. Washington, D.C., 20515 http://www.house.gov/walsh/ Cong. Bill Paxson -- New York -- 202-225-5265 2412 Rayburn House Office Bldg. Washington, D.C., 20515 http://www.house.gov/paxon/ Cong. W. J. (Billy) Tauzin -- Louisiana -- 202-225-4031 2183 Rayburn House Office Bldg. Washington, D.C., 10515 http://www.house.gov/tauzin/ Cong. Jim Ramstad -- Minnesota -- 202-225-2871 103 Cannon House Office Bldg.Washington, D.C., 20515 http://www.house.gov/ramstad/ Cong. Gil Gutknecht -- Minnesota -- 202-225-2472 425 Cannon House Office Bldg. Washington, D.C., 20515 http://www.house.gov/gutknecht/ Cong. Sue Wilkins Myrick -- North Carolina -- 202-225-1976 230 Cannon House Office Bldg. Washington, D.C., 20515 http://www.house.gov/myrick/ Cong. Cass Ballenger -- North Carolina -- 202-225-2576 2182 Rayburn House Office Bldg. Washington, D.C., 20515 http://www.house.gov/ballenger/ Cong. James C. Greenwood -- Pennsylvania -- 202-225-4276 2436 Rayburn House Office Bldg. Washington, D.C., 20515 http://www.house.gov/greenwood/ Cong. Curt Weldon -- Pennsylvania -- 202-225-2011 2452 Rayburn House Office Bldg. Washington, D.C., 20515 http://www.house.gov/curtweldon/ Cong. Joseph R. Pitts -- Pennsylvania -- 202-225-2411 504 Cannon House Office Bldg. Washington, D.C., 20515 http://www.house.gov/pitts/ Cong. Zach Wamp -- Tennessee -- 202- 225-3271 423 Cannon House Office Bldg. Washington, D.C., 10515 http://www.house.gov/wamp/ o Call Your Senators. If the House of Representatives votes to impeach, the Senate will conduct a trial. We want Senators to pressure the House leadership to put this issue to bed. Let them know their constituents care about this issue. Use the 1-877-TO-MOVEON (1-877-866-6836) number to call the two Senators from your state. Their site has a complete list of Senators and direct phone numbers by state. Let the staff people know (1) that you are a constituent , (2) that you are opposed to impeachment, and (3) that you believe your Senator should do everything possible NOW to help Congress avoid a distracting, divisive and ultimately meaningless trial in the Senate. o Contact media outlets. For suggestions on how to approach the press, see: http://www.moveon.org/thepress.htm. Two key points to make to the media:: (1) The House must be allowed to VOTE ON CENSURE and (2) House Members must be allowed to VOTE THEIR CONSCIENCE. Customize these letters to your own community and fax them in to local newspaper and/or to a national outlet: -- The New York Times - FAX: 212.556.7614 -- The Washington Post - FAX: 202.496.3936 -- Time Magazine - FAX: 212.522.1530 -- Newsweek - FAX: 212.445.4120 -- The Wall Street Journal - FAX: 202.862.9266 -- NPR - FAX: 202.414.3329 -- AP - FAX: 202.776.9570 -- CNN - FAX: 404.681.3578 -- Chicago Tribune: FAX: 202.824.8302 o Call Talk Radio programs and make your voice heard throughout your community. To receive a phone list of talk radio programs in your area, call (202)488-5038 Sample letter: Dear Representative, Soon, our country will face an historic vote about whether or not to impeach the President of the United States over what many consider to be a private matter. Your vote may well determine the outcome, and thus, the future course of our nation. I therefore ask you to search your conscience about the following matters before you vote. Our country's entire system of justice is based on the ideal that the individual is protected from unwarranted prosecution by the government. Yet we are embroiled in an investigation turned prosecution which has ignored that basic tenet. Illegally obtained evidence (Tripp's tapes) provide the foundation for the entire prosecution. Those tapes led to discovery in a dismissed civil case (which in the real world would be called frivolous) which, although ruled immaterial, provided government prosecutors the fodder to PURSUE A CRIME WHERE NONE HAD EXISTED. The same government prosecutors then offered Monica Lewinsky immunity from prosecution at a time when NO CRIME HAD BEEN COMMITTED. Process does matter; it is the very thing our ancestors fought and died for some 222 years ago. Setting that very important issue aside, let us examine the ALLEGATIONS of perjury. (A President, like any citizen of the United States, is innocent until proven guilty.) After careful examination of the testimony, we can clearly see that both Lewinsky and the President agree that some kind of sexual activity did occur, presumably oral sex. They both agree that Judge Susan Weber Wright's narrow definition of sexual relations excluded oral sex. So the entire allegation of perjury rests on whether Mr. Clinton touched Ms. Lewinsky in a way intended to gratify her. She says he did. He says he did not. No one else was there to know. So, in truth, the allegations of perjury rest on a case of "he said, she said," in a case of consensual sex. Could a jury convict based on this evidence? Would a case even be brought to trial based on this evidence? I ask you to carefully consider the impact your vote will have, not just on the future of this presidency, but on every future presidency, and more: the legal precedents which are being set here will impact the boundaries of criminal investigations of real people nationwide. Therefore, I ask that you listen to the wisdom of the People of the United States, and do your Constitutional duty: Vote NO on impeachment. Sincerely, Excerpts from a Commentary in this week's Newseek: "Censure, and Move On" by Jonathan Alter There was not much debate on impeachment at the Constitutional Convention, but the gist of the argument is unmistakable. Impeachment, George Mason proclaimed, was for "crimes against the state." In The Federalist No. 65, Alexander Hamilton wrote that a clear sign of when not to impeach was when the dispute between Congress and the president was "connected to pre-existing factions," Old World parlance for "partisan." The Constitution calls for impeachment for "treason, bribery or other high crimes and misdemeanors." The "other" suggests that those crimes be on the order of treason and bribery. Is Clinton's lying about whether he touched Monica Lewinsky's breasts comparable to treason? What about the oath members of Congress also take--to uphold the Constitution? It demands not just fidelity to the truth but respect for what's known as the "delicate balance" that makes our system work. Samuel Beer, one of the most distinguished political scientists of this century, had no doubts when applying a balancing test before the committee last week. Clinton's offenses "don't begin to outweigh the enormous damage of removing a president from office," he said. Of course, the worst thing about impeachment is that it is being rammed down the throats of the American people. Last month the electorate issued a clear mandate against impeachment by upending 65 years of political tradition and awarding congressional gains to the president's party in a midterm election. In a democracy, such a mandate should be ignored only in cases of dire emergency, when the president must be removed to protect the country. This is not that moment. Impeaching a president without a consensus is like going to war without a consensus--unhealthy, undemocratic and unlikely to result in anything but years of painful recriminations that degrade our politics and harm the nation. -- Newsweek, December 21, 1998