action: sign our letter to Feinstein re FISA.

[robinlynne]

A group of us are hand delivering the following letter to Feinstein's LA office this afternoon. We have 100+ signatures so far and would welcome many more.

If you want to sign on, send me an email with subject: add my name. your name and city or zipcode. Oh Californiains only, hence the zipcode, but please everyone from every state go after your senators! there will also be a protest this morning at Jane Harman's office because she signed the fisa bill. Let them know !

the text of the letter to Dianne Feinstein:

June 23, 2008


Senator Dianne Feinstein
c/o District Director Trevor Daley
11111 Santa Monica Blvd., Suite 915
Los Angeles, CA


Dear Senator Feinstein,


We are writing with great concern regarding reports the Democratic leadership has struck a deal which will further erode civil liberties by circumventing the original FISA laws, and we ask that you not only oppose this new FISA bill but that you filibuster its advancement in the Senate.



We are deeply disappointed in our Party and its leadership for capitulating to the Bush administration with this utterly unnecessary legislation--but you are our Senator, from the great and progressive state of California, and as your constituents we have a right to expect better leadership from you.



We wish to note that in an official statement regarding a previous FISA bill, you defended the telecom industry, stating they had no choice but to break the law--but in this you were incorrect: They did have a choice, proven by the fact Qwest chose to obey the Constitution rather than wiretap without proper FISA warrants. We would also remind you the telecoms’ illegal activity began well before the attacks of 9/11.



We need better answers and better representation from our senior Senator. It was with great pain that, last year, we moved several California Democratic Party caucuses to censure you for your approval of an Attorney General who condoned torture, and for your previous support for telecom immunity. We would prefer not to censure you again, but to instead applaud you for doing what is right and protecting our Constitution rather than protecting corporations and the Bush administration. We ask you to stand with the vast bulk of your constituents who side with the rule of law.



Thank you,



Yours,


(I am not publishing names here, for privacy reasons. Robin.)

[AndyA]

1. Great letter. I hope it makes a difference, but with Feinstein, you never know.

She's disappointed more recently than anything else.

Please let us know how it goes, and thanks for taking action to do what you can on behalf of those of us without representation. (Sens. Inhofe and Coburn here - both have their nose so far up Bush's butt they can smell what he ate for dinner last night.)

[robinlynne]

2. Feinstein is on the wrong side, but I had to do something! 9 pages of signatures already.

Interestingly only 2 replies from DUers!

[OffWithTheirHeads]

3. You might as well be talking to Lieberman.

Di Fi does not give a fuck what the little people think. She is quite happily making millions from her husbands defense holdings.

[robinlynne]

6. I know. But I'm not going to sit home while they do it. Are you?

[robinlynne]

7. And when we brought up the censure Feinstein resolution in the Party convention, she

was quite upset about it. Her people were scurrying around like squirrels. And three separate caucuses approved the censure resolution.

[norepubsin08]

4. How do you sign on...

I'm with you all the way!!!

[robinlynne]

5. send me your name and city via a message through this forum.

(I don't want to publicize my email or anyone's names here.)
you can send a post to robinlynne through your DU homepage.