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Fired Up has a good idea:
With the Senate continuing to debate legislation to jump-start the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, Sen. Bond has thus far refused to support President Obama’s jobs and economic recovery plan.
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan will help create jobs, jumpstart our economy and restore public services here in Missouri.
More than $1.4 billion will be invested in Medicaid to help needy Missourians get the health care they need. More than $807 million will be invested in Missouri’s education system to modernize schools, hire teachers and make sure kids are learning. Nearly $52 million will be invested in Missouri Head Start and child care programs.
Nearly $70 million will be invested in job training programs so that unemployed Missourians can get back to work. Sen. Bond’s support is crucial to preventing the filibuster advocated by the arch-conservatives in the Republican Party. Please call Sen. Bond’s office today to support the Obama jobs and economic recovery plan at 1-888-460-0813 or (202) 224-3121.
I wouldn’t stop there, though. Our Democratic Senator Claire McCaskill has shown signs of wavering, as well, concern-trolling over funding for contraception and anti-STD programs. I like that she’s kicking ass on corporate pay, but that doesn’t give her a pass on voting against funding that the states and the country as a whole desperately need.
Call Bond AND McCaskill right away. McCaskill’s DC number is (202) 224-6154. For an office in Missouri, check here and scroll down to the bottom.
and asked that he reconsider his public statements, stop posturing and do what’s right for his constitutents. I will call McCaskill today.
Good that you posted this since I read somewhere (don’t have time to look up the reference right now) that yesterday, at least, Congress was getting vastly more anti-stimulus calls thanks to rightwing organizations getting busy and churning up the base.
I think the important thing is to ask him to vote for cloture. He doesn’t need to support the bill; he just needs to allow an up or down vote.
Claire has emailed me back.. we email a lot..and she has said she is going to support it when they clean it up a little…I have no reason to doubt her…She has always been honest with me in the past.
Bond is a rethuglican fool and I have NEVER gotten a response from him no matter what I have sent. I have sent him letters, emails, phone calls and everything else and I never get any kind of response except silence or on phone calls I get a will take it under advisement type thing.
I also wrote him and told him to shut his pie hole about Guantanamo because I was tired of seeing him on my TeeVee and listening to him lie about what a vacation they were all having down there.