This will take only a minute of your time.
I received communication from a friend of mine who is on a lot of the “community organizer” mailing lists still after his now-regretful support for Obama’s election. He is concerned because there is a well-organized effort being put forth to slam Joe Lieberman for standing against his party and the Healthcare bill in Congress. They are gathering their troops and heading to the airwaves and the internet to mount a huge campaign against him in an effort to sway him to switch his position so they can pass their healthcare agenda.
Having a rather intimate knowledge of what it is like to have your “friends” organize against you and launch an attack, I feel it is important that (as a nation) we send encouragement to Lieberman in an overwhelming fashion. There is a tendency when the effort against you is orchestrated to begin to feel that this represents the whole. But, if we balance the “noise” coming into his office with our own appreciation, he will be encouraged to hold the line. If not for the almost unanimous outcry from my constituents in support of my opposition to my own party’s push for a tax increase last session; I might have started to believe people really wanted to be taxed more. Sounds silly, in retrospect, but it is the power of organized grass roots and it is a dangerous place to leave Lieberman hanging.
Please join me in contacting Joe Lieberman’s office to tip the scales on behalf of “real” Americans. Partisan politics aside, he has a heavy lift to stand up to Pelosi and Reid and Obama and their well-greased and well-organized grass roots machine. If you want to stop the government take-over of our healthcare system, now is the time to act. Fax, call, do both. I am encouraging you to contact both his DC office and his local office, in case they have already overwhelmed his phone lines.
When you call, keep your message succinct and positive, as this is far more effective. A simple, “Thank you for standing against the public option- I support you!” would do. Please use no threats, no treatise on why you feel this way, and nothing to detract from your core message of “Thank you, keep it up.” Thank you, in advance, for your 10 minutes of help on this. The fight isn’t over yet!
Contact Senator Joe Lieberman at:
Washington, DC Office
706 Hart Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
(202) 224-4041 Voice
(202) 224-9750 Fax
Connecticut Office
One Constitution Plaza
7th Floor
Hartford, CT 06103
(860) 549-8463 Voice
(800) 225-5605 In CT
(866) 317-2242 Fax
