Bush-Kennedy Amnesty Bill Update
As reported by Grassfire.org:
The Senate just failed to "invoke cloture" on the Bush-Kennedy amnesty bill for the second time today. The final vote was 45-50.
What does this mean?
We did it! We defeated this round of amnesty!
Since the announcement of this bill a few weeks ago, Grassfire team members sent over 700,000 petitions and faxes to the Senate. When we add in the estimated phone calls, contacts by our team members alone to the Senate far exceeded 1 million!
We have never seen a grassroots response like this -- it was truly unprecedented. Without grassroots pressure, the Senate would have passed this bill weeks ago.
On behalf of our entire team, and on behalf of the entire nation, thank you for taking a stand!
With much appreciation,
Steve Elliott, President
Grassfire.orgP.S. If you listened to the floor speeches after the vote on C-Span, then you know that the battle is not over. The will bring amnesty back -- sooner rather than later. But for tonight, I want to thank you for everything you did to take a stand against this amnesty bill.
P.P.S. I would love to hear your feedback on this victory and our combined grassroots effort. I started a forum discussion on FireSociety.com earlier today that has some lively discussion (and celebrating) going on. Would you post your comments here as well?
The thread starts here:
http://www.firesociety.com/forum/thread/14217
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