Bumped up so you don’t forget to call now that the long holiday is over. Steven D
Some Phone Numbers for you:
Howard Dean
Chair
Dem. Nat’l Committee: 202-863-8000
Nancy Pelosi
Speaker of the House: (202) 225-0100
Harry Reid
Senate Maj. Leader: (202) 224-3542
Steny Hoyer
House Maj. Leader: (202) 225-3130
I’ll leave the talking to you. Besides, I think we all know what needs to be said to these luminaries, don’t we?
Update [2008-5-24 10:26:20 by Steven D]: For now their voicemail boxes all appear full. Thanks to good BooTrib members in this thread, there is more contact info below the fold.
Email addresses for uncommitted delegates:
Howard Dean (deanh@dnc.org); Rolands Martin (roland@rolandsmartin.com);
budmail@mail.house.gov; gabrielle.giffords@mail.house.gov;
sf.nancy@mail.house.gov; mcnerneyinfo@mail.house.gov;
mike.honda@mail.house.gov; samfarr@mail.house.gov;
congressmanjimcosta@mail.house.gov; bob.filner@mail.house.gov;
susan.davis@mail.house.gov; mark.udall@mail.house.gov;
john.salazar@mail.house.gov; james.marshall@mail.house.gov;
rahm.emanuel@mail.house.gov; nancy.boyda@mail.house.gov;
dennis.moore@mail.house.gov; william.jefferson@mail.house.gov;
charlie.melancon@mail.house.gov; don.cazayoux@mail.house.gov;
michael.michaud@mail.house.gov; rep.sarbanes@mail.house.gov;
steny.hoyer@mail.house.gov; john.olver@mail.house.gov;
niki.tsongas@mail.house.gov; john.tierney@mail.house.gov;
edward.markey@mail.house.gov; collin.peterson@mail.house.gov;
gene.taylor@mail.house.gov; travis.childers@mail.house.gov;
rush.holt@mail.house.gov; bob.etheridge@mail.house.gov;
congmcintyre@mail.house.gov; tom.udall@mail.house.gov;
charlie.wilson@mail.house.gov; rep.kaptur@mail.house.gov;
zack.space@mail.house.gov; dennis.kucinich@mail.house.gov;
dan.boren@mail.house.gov; robert.a.brady@mail.house.gov;
jason.altmire@mail.house.gov; rep.doyle@mail.house.gov;
john.spratt@mail.house.gov; jclyburn@mail.house.gov;
lincoln.davis@mail.house.gov; bart.gordon@mail.house.gov;
nick.lampson@mail.house.gov; jim.matheson@mail.house.gov;
alan.mollohan@mail.house.gov; senator@ksalazar.senate.gov;
senator@jbiden.senate.gov; senator@tcarper.senate.gov;
senator_harkin@exchange.senate.gov; webform@landrieu.senate.gov;
senator@cardin.senate.gov; webmail@baucus-iq.senate.gov;
senator@tester.senate.gov; webmail@reid-iq.senate.gov;
webmail@lautenberg-iq.senate.gov; senator@brown.senate.gov;
senator@rwyden.senate.gov; senator@reed.senate.gov; senator@webb.senate.gov;
webmail@kohl-iq.senate.gov
Contact email link for DNC:
http://www.democrats.org/page/s/contactissues
Contact email link for Pelosi:
http://www.speaker.gov/contact/
Contact email link for Pelosi:
http://reid.senate.gov/contact/
Link to other Dem Leaders’ websites:
http://democrats.senate.gov/leadership/
Fax nos.
DNC: (202) 863-8063
Pelosi: (202) 225-8259
Reid: (202) 224-7327
I sent the others and the DNC emails back in whenever (Jan.?) when Clinton said something like, “Oh they’re comparing one candidate to JFK. Well JFK was shot.” and went on with her speech. They didn’t do anything then, I don’t expect them to do anything now.
They’ll absolutely do something if they get 100,000 phone calls on this. Absolutely.
People can write the DNC from this link, as well:
http://www.democrats.org/page/s/contactissues
speakerpelosi
all reps
maj. leader reidand democratic leadership in the senate
all sens
they all have a vote.
fax numbers and local office info avail at each site as well.
Here are the emails addresses for all the superdelegates who are still uncommitted. This is comma separated so should be able to be cut and pasted into one email
My first reaction to the comment was charitable. “She was tired. She repeated something someone said in a backroom conversation…”
My second followed her non-apologee: “Why would she apologize to the Kennedys when it was Obama who was threatened?”
Then all night I kept thinking about it. This is really what she thinks, subconsciously. The Clintons believe that Obama is a fad, a phenom like “American Idol,” and truly believe that eventually he will go away. Like the Tuzla comments and many other slips, there are serious reasons to doubt Senator Clinton’s stability here.
But Olbermann nailed it best. She’s created as much danger for herself as for Obama. Time to quit—three months ago.
Yeah, that was similar to my reaction. The weight of what she’d said didn’t really hit me until I turned Countdown on. And I thought about it more: “She really just said she’s in the race because Obama could potentially get shot. Wow.”
That was pretty much my take. And as far as I was concerned, the ‘apology’ was just a heads up to everyone that she intended Obama to be the target of her remark, and that she was pointedly withholding the real apology for just that reason. Yuck.
I emailed Webb.
I slung Taylor an e-mail since he’s my Rep., and I think I’ll hit Tester since Montana’s primary’s coming up.
and let’s remind them to ignore
Biglittle dog.Bill Clinton’s whining that his wife is a victim of ‘cover up’ – Obama can’t win in November
so I expect the Clintons won’t be rallying or pulling out all the stops to get Obama elected.
Poor Bill. He won’t be returning to the White House.
I’m sure he doesn’t actually believe this, that it’s just more Clintonian spin, but if he does, the man needs a psychological evaluation. These two are insane.
whether or not he believes this is the lesser point.
He does damage to the cause. This couple won’t be supporting Obama to win in November.
It’s hard not to comment. Bill hasn’t been high on my list for a while. Extreme intellectual ‘disingenuousness’ is part of the reason.
“Pushed?” How about showing some grace when you’ve lost? Or how about “ethics abhors the useless act,” as in can’t claim a higher cause if it’s not a possible outcome. Or how about to supporting the Democratic Party’s candidate if you, as you claim, actually support the political goals you support? Or how about showing some honesty for a change and admit you’ve cherrypicked to support your argument, and also, that you’ve been insulting the public’s intelligence and a huge chunk of Democratic voters? How about explaining how this plan to win by overturning the vote?
I’ve said it before — I’m offended by bad arguments. Bill takes me over the edge regularly, as does the rest of the campaign. It would be different if they actually made an argument. Offering me some Kool-aid makes me want to puke.
Maybe I’m a bit of an outsider here . . . but what do you expect to happen from all of this?
As much as I don’t want Hillary to ruin Obama’s chances does Obama really gain if you guys succeed in running Hillary out of the race in disgrace? Do you really see an advantage in her being humiliated?
They way I see it is Hillary is on her way out and she will choose her own timing. The best way to encourage her to get out is to pretend she doesn’t have a chance and to focus on the McCain v. Obama matchup. Just ignore her.
I don’t see the good in humiliating her by getting the Democratic establishment to disown her.
it’s helpful for leaders to hear from the troops.
Hillary has disowned the Party, the same way Joe Lieberman did.
Hillary has disowned the party? She got about half the party to vote for her to be the Presidential nominee. She’s closer to Obama in her politics than you give her credit.
Don’t get me wrong. She is a conservative Democrat and is dangerous for liberals. Obama is slightly better than Clinton. But you guys are losing all sense of proportion. Obama is a pretty moderate Democrat. His message is better than Hillary and he is more likely to take on the Republicans and he’s a little bit more resistant to undercutting his allies than other Democrats. And, as Booman repeatedly notes, his people will do a much better job running the party than the Clinton people would.
But running Hillary out of the party and turning her into a racist isn’t very helpful to Obama. It’s better off if Hillary quietly goes or maybe tries an ineffectual convention floor fight. That way her people feel respected and will eventually move on. If you guys succeed in branding her a racist and running her out of the party people will not forget that.
I frankly don’t care. Part of me wants the Democratic party to be smashed into a thousand pieces. So it doesn’t really bother me that two center-right candidates are threatening to split the party. There are more fundamental reasons the party is splitting up–it’s not because of Hillary and Obama. It’s because the Democratic party no longer stands for anything of significance and people like me are leaving the party because it has been utterly corrupted by corporate lobbying and no longer even blinks an eye when Bush violates the law and the constitution. If Democrats won’t even lift a finger when Bush is caught illegally spying on millions of Americans without a warrant then what do they stand for?
What I’m looking out for is Obama to start acting like Hillary and Lieberman and to start undercutting people like me so he can appear moderate and tough. I’m going with Obama but the second he starts kneecapping me or my allies then it’s over.
the Gipper, if he could (may he have a peaceful rest) would tell you Hillary was always a Republican and she has disowned the Party by violating one the cardinal political commandment.
“Thou shall speak no evil of a fellow party member.”
When asked if Obama is a muslim? she, a fellow senate colleague who know the guy, avoided the question. She fanned the Wright controversy, MLK, RFK…on and on.
The Clintons have declared their true selves, they gave us an X-ray of their inner thoughts. I’ll leave it there.
Hillary and Bill defeated themselves. Pure sleaze this couple. Concentrated sleaze.
Obama is not perfect. No human is. He’ll make mistakes. But the Democratic Party will be well rid of the Clintons’ hold. They changed it’s direction in a fundamental way.
And the so-called economic prosperity of the 1990s was an illusion. History will record it as such. Our current banking crisis – not over by a long shot – results from Clinton’s repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act.
Unfortunately, we can’t help that the press covers her. She’s not going to get out unless she’s forced out, and if that means humiliation — well, then so be it.
The only way you have to force her out, barring any other extra-legal method, is to follow the rules of the Democratic party and get someone else nominated (Obama). I don’t see why everyone is going so crazy. The purpose of the convention is to have a final reckoning and to pick a nominee. Why not let the process play out? You can’t force her to give up.
And you guys are forgetting the positives from the fight. Don’t you think a convention with the possibility of some drama will be covered and watched more? Are you really worried that Hillary will somehow steal the nomination?
I think a convention fight would almost certainly doom the party’s chances in November. Can you point me to recent history showing otherwise? Clinton supporters point to Kennedy and Hart. Need I remind you that their opponents, Carter and Mondale, were crushed in the generals?
I also think this business of “letting the process play out” is played out. We’ve gotten as much good out of it as we can. There are no positives to be had from Hillary Clinton painting Obama as naive, claiming to be the candidate of white people, and alluding to his assassination, nor from her constantly stoking the fires of the gender wars. I’m not a believer in the wacky ideas that people like Markos are peddling, telling everyone that a long primary process is just awesome for us. The history suggests otherwise.
To a degree, I concur that it can be a good thing, but we’re now at the point at which the Nut Case is simply dividing the party and distracting from the fight against McCain with her bizarre statements and her husband’s paranoid schizophrenia.
She needs to show some class for once in her life, and get out.
Obviously the best thing for Obama would be for Hillary to quit right now and give a speech where she endorses Obama. And then Hillary and Bill can campaign for Obama.
But you can’t make her do it. And your only other alternative is to go to war against her and basically convince the party establishment to throw her out of the party before the convention. Maybe you are right to hate Hillary so much and to blame her. I don’t know and I don’t care. But, from a practical point of view, you’re stuck with her and and you’re stuck with he Democratic party rules and throwing her out seems counterproductive to your stated goals. Don’t let your Hillary hate get the better of you.
And I think you may be so close to the battle you don’t see the bigger picture. It’s only you hard-core Hillary or Obama people that really believe one candidate is racist and another candidate is sexist. I find this whole character candidacy test very off-putting and find that it obscures debate on more important issues.
You didn’t answer my points about the history of primary battles. Or do you simply acknowledge that I’m correct? The problem I find is that your argument about interest in a convention fight is the same argument I envision Clinton and her supporters making in an effort to buy time, regardless of what sort of damage it would do.
I know I can’t make her do it, just as a parent can’t make a spoiled child stop a temper tantrum in the toy aisle after being told he or she can’t have this or that. I blame her, because Obama has secured the majority of delegates and the popular vote, yet she refuses to concede and continues to make an effort to divide the party.
I didn’t answer the points about whether a protracted nomination battle helps or hurts the party because I view that as beside the point; you are stuck with a persistent Hillary whether you like it or not. Your options are limited. Getting the establishment to throw Hillary out of the party would cause a lot more damage to your stated goals (an Obama victory) than simply letting her go on through the convention.
But, from what I’ve heard so far I think the protracted nomination helps Democrats. I’m certainly open to your arguments to the contrary and I don’t have super strong ideas on this. But, I think it’s wrong to look at history too closely to try to predict what will happen. We’re in unique territory and I don’t think Carter’s nomination is a great precedent for today.
I care much more about foreign policy and civil liberties and what the Democrats are doing on these issues.
I think you’re trying to place us on the horns of a dilemma that doesn’t exist. The options may be limited, but they certainly consist of more than either a) throwing her out of the party, or b) letting her take this to the convention. I don’t recall anyone suggesting attempting to throw her (that is, the Clintons) out of the party. I don’t know if that’s possible. And under the present circumstances, I wouldn’t think it is possible, nor do I think it would be wise if it were.
The likelihood is that the resolution that takes place will include neither of these scenarios. At this point, given what is known, what is most likely is that a sufficient body of superdelegates will make clear within a few weeks after June 3 that Clinton is simply not going to have adequate support at the convention to make forcing a confrontation on the floor worth the probable costs incurred (to Obama himself and the Party as a whole, but chiefly to the Clintons). That is where applying pressure by virtue of contacting uncommitted superdelegates comes in.
I’m fairly sure they’re not going to feel it’s in the interests of the Party — and particularly not its chances in November — to let this go to a floor fight. No, a fight at the convention’s not the worst thing in the world, but it makes a difficult task (breaking the Republicans’ hold on the White House and adding to the Democratic majorities in Congress) that much more difficult. And even if that’s not necessarily true, that will be the operating perception. That’s why Dean called for early June as a deadline for picking sides. The assumption is obviously that the uncommitteds are going to break decisively for one camp or the other, the voters having weighed in and completed that part of the process. It’s been a remarkably close and evenly matched campaign, but Obama’s having bested Clinton will be evident to a decisive number of them, by the end of June, I’d bet.
The thing is, IMO, her caustic, divisive grandstanding really shouldn’t be tolerated much less rewarded — silence is validation, to my mind.
She insists on calling herself a Democrat, and yet she’s doing her sly, underhanded best to cause serious fractures within the Democratic coalition along gender lines, class lines, and racial lines. Her RFK assassination remark was the last straw for me. Her “You can’t touch me because I didn’t mention Obama by name, and I certainly didn’t mean to imply anything untoward or menacing, and you’re all trying to hand me my ass like a bunch of big meanies…”.
Enough. The loss of the presidency for her is the death of a dream — she likely feels she was meant to be president. But that probably goes for every candidate in the Democratic race except for Obama. McCain must be stopped. That’s the fight. Not Hillary Clinton’s fight for gender equality within the context of this race, or anything else. She needs to take some time when this is over and decide if she wants to keep her Senate seat or not. If she does, she may have to fight for that too.
I meant to say too that I don’t see this as the Party ‘humiliating’ her. Her conduct has NOT been good for the Party or its prospects in November — which is what it all comes down to. This ain’t a wrestling match and the goal is not really wicked high Convention ratings for the networks. The cornerstone of her strategy seems to have been divide and conquer, but she’s not going to be the conqueror. That stands to be McCain.
The problem with Hillary.
Why would you believe a word she says. Has she told the truth once? Has she not changed her mind after every loss?
Don’t give me this, she cares about counting every vote. Bullchit.
She needs FL and MI disenfranchised so she can use that to defeat Obama in the general.
She is in the race for one reason. Be sure Obama loses to McCain so she can run against him in 2012.
Damn right I will email the Supers.
Steven D, Great line up. I posted on this as well but only had the Pelosi and Reid contacts. I emailed the DNC before and even Moveon.org but it’s good to hear that voicemail boxes are full. HA! I started to think I was ‘the only one’ doing this..
Ingrid