FISA Fight: Another Wing-Nut Group Enters the Fray
by mcjoan
Wed Apr 30, 2008 at 01:00:11 PM PDT
The extreme right groups surely do love alliteration, whether its "Defense of Democracies" or "Frontiers of Freedom," the latest organization committing telephonic harrassment of the Democratic Freshman who refused to cave on telco amnesty. From an e-mail from Tim Walz:
The group is telling voters to urge me to support retroactive immunity for telecommunications companies that participated in the President's illegal wiretapping program. They want me to cave in to the President's demands.
Despite the pressure, I refuse to give these phone companies a free pass. I won't let President Bush decide when he can break the law....
They have attacked me with television ads...
They have attacked me with radio commercials...
Today, they are calling voters and attacking me on the phone...
I will not cave on this issue, but they will continue to attack.
As always with these groups, there's unintended irony in their efforts on behalf of the administration and the telcos. See if you can spot the crazy in their mission statement:
Frontiers of Freedom Institute ("FOF") was founded in 1994 by U.S. Senator Malcolm Wallop. FOF is an educational institute (or think tank) whose mission is to promote conservative public policy based on the principles of individual freedom, peace through strength, limited government, free enterprise, and traditional American values as found in the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.
Another group that puts "free enterprise" above "principles of individual freedom" when it comes to protecting AT&T over the privacy rights of Americans.
They are going to continue to attack. The pressure on these Freshmen is going to be relentless. We can help counterbalance that by supporting them and their strong stance against the administration. Contact them and let them know you appreciate their refusal to cave.
- Jason Altmire (PA-04)
- Mike Arcuri (NY-24)
- Nancy Boyda (KS-02)
- Joe Courtney (CT-02)
- Joe Donnelly (IN-02)
- Gabrielle Giffords (AZ-08)
- Kirsten Gillibrand (NY-20)
- Paul Hodes (NH-02)
- Steve Kagen (WI-08)
- Ron Klein (FL-22)
- Tim Mahoney (FL-16)
- Jerry McNerney (CA-11)
- Harry Mitchell (AZ-05)
- Christopher Murphy (CT-05)
- Carol Shea-Porter (NH-01)
- Tim Walz (MN-01)
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