Meet Sen. Lincoln Chafee - Wednesday, May 4, 7PM - Wakefield, RI

[paineinthearse]

According to a recent Zogby poll, 80% OF ALL RHODE ISLANDERS OPPOSE THE APPOINTMENT OF JOHN BOLTON AS UN AMBASSADOR TO THE UN.*

Here is your opportunity to meet Sen. Lincoln Chafee and ask he follow his constituents in voting against Bolton. Free event and hot hors d'oeuvres, too!!! :woohoo:

http://www.rigop.org/RIGOP/Events/444.aspx

Wednesday, May 04, 2005 (EST) - SKGOP May Meeting
Honorable Senator Lincoln Chafee will be the keynote speaker.
Wednesday, May 4, 2005
7:00 p.m.
Private Room at Casey's Restaurant
191 Old Tower Hill Road
Wakefield
Hot Hors d'Oeuvres will be served.
The event is free and open to anyone however donations are always appreciated to support our events and future candidates.

p.s. While you're at it, invite him to come over from the dark side!



*New Poll Released: Rhode Islanders Oppose John Bolton; Senator Chafee Should Do The Same

Over 80 percent of Rhode Islanders oppose the nomination of John Bolton for US Ambassador to UN, according to a recent survey taken by Zogby. The survey shows a growing disconnect between Senator Lincoln Chafee (R-RI), who continues to express support for the Bolton nomination, and his constituents, the majority of whom are opposed to the appointment. In addition, 55.6 percent of those polled said that should Senator Chafee vote for the John Bolton nomination, they would be less likely to support his reelection bid.

http://www.zogby.com/Soundbites/ReadClips.dbm?ID=11248

[cestpaspossible]

1. I can't wait to say

ex-Senator Chafee

[paineinthearse]

2. We'll see how this plays out, but

The purpose behind this post is to alert all DU'ers in Rhode Island and from Boston to New York City about this event where we can meet and try to influence Senator Chafee.

[paineinthearse]

3. It's rant time

OK, now I'm really pissed!

Here is an opportunity for all DU'ers living between NY City and Boston to get out from behind their computers and actually do something that could influence the Bolton nomination.

But noooooooo....the posts (a cross post in the Rhode Island forum) elicit no response.

Unbelievable.

[izzybeans]

4. My intial excitement about this place is starting to wane.

check your pm

[Nothing Without Hope]

5. Chafee needs to be confronted with the fact that he will NOT be reelected

if he keeps bowing to the neocons. I don't know if RI was one of the states with stong election fraud, but even that can go only so far.

People, come tell him what he needs to be told!

[Nothing Without Hope]

7. Kerry's statement urging Democrats to contact Chafee and urge a NO vote

on BOLTON - here's Kerry's statement on this:

http://www.johnkerry.com/email/0411.html
Dear Friend,

The Senate Committee on Foreign Relations - and, in particular, Senator Lincoln Chafee - have a big decision to make this week.

I've made my decision. I will vigorously oppose the nomination of John Bolton as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations.

Have you ever noticed that in the Bush Administration, the only way to get a job promotion is to bungle our national security? As under secretary of state for arms control and international security for the past four years, Mr. Bolton has achieved little. In fact, we secured more nuclear materials in the two years before September 11th than in the two years after. North Korea and Iran are now burgeoning nuclear states. This record earned John Bolton a nomination to the UN?

How can we believe this nomination makes any sense at all?

We can't believe it.

But, unless Senator Lincoln Chafee puts principle over party, the inexplicable John Bolton nomination will squeak through the Foreign Relations Committee on a party line vote.

We have to do everything we can to make sure that doesn't happen.

That's why, in addition to being vocal about my own opposition to Senator Bolton, I am organizing johnkerry.com activists in Rhode Island to contact Senator Chafee, and I am running online ads in the Rhode Island media.

See the ad for yourself.

http://www.johnkerry.com/action/chafee-ad.php

Why retain and promote those who have failed to make America more safe and secure? Donald Rumsfeld has been a disaster as Secretary of Defense. That's why over 800,000 people have signed our petition supporting my call for Rumsfeld's resignation. Yet the President stands stubbornly by him.

Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz has made repeated and serious miscalculations about the costs and risks America would face in Iraq. Yet now the Bush Administration wants us to believe he is the right person to lead the World Bank.

And now, the Bush administration wants to add John Bolton to that astonishing list.

I will keep you posted on our efforts to stop this nomination from advancing.

Sincerely,

John Kerry

[Nothing Without Hope]

6. This is going to need reposting - it wasn't noticed this time around

Wake up, people!

Looks like more work on organizing activism is going to be needed.

[borg5575]

8. It's not gonna happen.

Chafee is up for reelection in 2006 and he is going to have a serious a right wing primary opponent. He is more worried about his right flank than his left flank right now. If he opposes Bolton it just makes his primary fight even tougher. And word has it that the Repuke National Committee will withold campaign funding if he doesn't toe the line.

So he will have to reluctantly support Bolton. We need to look elsewhere for help on this one.

[annabanana]

9. Are you saying that there are more "righty" than "mod" Repubs

in Rhode Island? Or are the bushers over-funding his opponent? or will it maybe depend on what he does in this committee?

what's going on up there?