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Communication, a telephonic invasion

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Keep calling, it’s working:

Republican senators’ offices say they’re getting a flood of calls from voters worried about the GOP Obamacare repeal bill, potentially further complicating Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s attempt to muscle the legislation through this week.

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“Since last Thursday, the Cochran offices have received approximately 224 constituent calls against and two in favor of discussion draft of the healthcare bill,” Gallegos wrote in an email Monday.

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  2. 2.

    LurkerNoLonger

    The two calls in favor were from Mitch McConnell and Donald Trump doing a Mississippi drawl.

  3. 3.

    Betty Cracker

    224 calls? That’s fucking pathetic. I mean, I’m glad the ratio is so lopsided, but those motherfuckers should be buried under calls, email, faxes and snail mail on a daily basis.

  4. 4.

    Yutsano

    My office is right next door to Maria Cantwell’s. It wouldn’t take much to slip a note of encouragement under her door.

    @Betty Cracker: It’s Mississippi. They ain’t quite used to this new-fangled telephone thing.

  7. 7.

    Marcopolo

    If nothing else, just call both your senators (doesn’t matter if they are D or R) and ask them to hold a townhall near you over the July 4th recess to discuss the healthcare bill. R senators can attempt to defend this POS; D senators can explain why it is such a bad POS. Tell them a bill that affects 16% of the national economy deserves a thorough hearing before the public.

  9. 9.

    randy khan

    @Betty Cracker:

    55 calls a day actually is a pretty good number – assuming an 8 hour day, that’s more than one every 10 minutes, which is way more than they probably got on any other issue.

  10. 10.

    James Powell

    @Betty Cracker:

    I don’t know if it’s pathetic. If you figure they’re taking calls 7 hours a day for Thursday, Friday, Monday, that’s more than 10 calls an hour. And it’s Mississippi, but sure, they could do better.

    Reporters ought to be calling asking for the phone call counts. Post them somewhere.

  11. 11.

    smintheus

    @Betty Cracker: They may not be answering phones. I’ve been trying for more than a week to get through to any of Toomey’s offices. Both lines at his local office have always had the same recording (“we’re on the other line currently”), even when I call both at once. I called first thing this morning, someone picked up and immediately hung up on me.

    Then late this afternoon, to my utter astonishment, I got through to his local office. I fired up the intertubes and discovered that the vote was postponed – maybe they thought it was now safe to answer constituents’ calls.

  12. 12.

    Barbara

    @smintheus: I have been faxing Toomey. I am doing this on my mother’s behalf and I don’t want to misrepresent myself over the phone. I also faxed my own senators to thank them for standing up for health care. I figure they just need to know they have my support, it doesn’t matter so much that it comes through a call.

  13. 13.

    Tim F.

    @smintheus: There’s no reason to stick with your local office. I have had a few nice conversations with his Allentown office, one with his Beaver office and once or twice I even got through in Pittsburgh.

  14. 14.

    Raoul

    Yes it is working! WaPo at 5:17pm EDT:

    Facing GOP opposition, Senate leaders postpone vote to overhaul Obamacare
    Senate Republican leaders bowed to pressure from within their own ranks Tuesday and postponed a vote to overhaul the Affordable Care Act until after the July 4 recess, raising doubts about their ability to fulfill one of their party’s core political promises.

    The delay, which now exposes lawmakers to a barrage of lobbying as they face their constituents over the holiday, has left a measure orchestrated to pass swiftly this week now teetering in the balance….

    ETA: Ok, this isn’t the breaking news I thought it was. I’ve been away from news and twitter all day. Anyway, I hope these a-holes get lots of grumpy folks to chat them up at the airport again. I loved that strategy last week!

  16. 16.

    gbear

    @Barbara: I called Senators Franken and Klobuchar this afternoon to say thanks for the good work and also keep on with the election interference investigations and ties to Russia.

    I got thru to both senators in about two seconds each. The staff didn’t sound frazzled and they were happy to hear from a friendly caller.

  17. 17.

    p.a.

    Over the break: GOP Alchemy: Trying to convert shit into crap, so the Wavering 5 can approve the crap, fuck the country, and win reelection.

  18. 18.

    La Caterina (Mrs. Johannes)

    I just put a thank you note (a nice tasteful Cranes one!) in the three dimensional mailbox to Minority Leader/my senator/”the fight continues” Chuck Schumer. Now to call my less fortunate relatives and get them to castigate the Rethug senators in their states.

  19. 19.

    geg6

    @smintheus:

    Try the local office here in Beaver County. I get through most of the time. Not always but bett r than his D.C., Pittsburgh or Philadelphia offices.

  20. 20.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Betty Cracker:

    I agree. I’ll find me a plausible Tennessee address and phone Cochran as a constituent.

    (Come ON. At least I don’t vote in multiple locations.)

  21. 21.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @La Caterina (Mrs. Johannes):

    I just put a thank you note (a nice tasteful Cranes one!) in the three dimensional mailbox to Minority Leader/my senator/”the fight continues” Chuck Schumer.

    That’s really nice of you; I’ll bet almost nobody sends handwritten thank-you notes these days. Just be aware, if you aren’t already, that delivery of anything sent by mail to a high-level government official is likely to be delayed for many weeks. They still have the protocols in place from the 2001 anthrax attacks, and AFAIK all Congressional snail mail is diverted to a facility far from D.C. (Don’t know how it works for district offices, but I’m sure they still take serious precautions.)

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