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EarlG ADMIN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-18-05 11:12 AM
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CHECK IT OUT: "Nuclear Option" Mass Immediate Response
Sign up to the PFAW service which will alert you via cellphone if/when the Republicans trigger the Nuclear Option.

From their website:

https://www.kintera.org/site/apps/ka/ct/contactcustom.asp?c=feIJKQMEF&b=688743&kntaw3935=BB9F637E9C774781A1ABD38FC8C7DFA3

With the Nuclear Option’s timing in Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist’s hands, there won’t be enough warning to send out an email alert the moment he drops the bomb on the Senate. But we can deliver a text message straight to your mobile that embeds a Senate phone number based on your state.

So please take a moment to fill out the short form below to sign up for our "Nuclear Option" Mass Immediate Response. By giving us your cell phone number, we will text message you as soon as Senate Republicans trigger the "nuclear option." Embedded in that text message will be a link to the Senate switchboard. With the push of a couple buttons, your call – along with thousands of others – goes right through to the corridors of power demanding preservation of the filibuster.

This is a brand new technology, and this is the first time it is being used on a large scale.
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xultar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-18-05 11:14 AM
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1. OK so what are we supposed to do when he does go Nuclear?
Edited on Wed May-18-05 11:15 AM by xultar
Calling our senators?
Emailing the Media?


Well after this little thing...what is DUs response?
I'm ready coach put me in!


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EarlG ADMIN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-18-05 11:16 AM
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2. Call the Senate
"By giving us your cell phone number, we will text message you as soon as Senate Republicans trigger the "nuclear option." Embedded in that text message will be a link to the Senate switchboard. With the push of a couple buttons, your call – along with thousands of others – goes right through to the corridors of power demanding preservation of the filibuster."
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xultar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-18-05 11:33 AM
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3. Thanks G...I mean do we have something planned on our end too?
Are we gonna send emails or something?
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EarlG ADMIN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-18-05 11:57 AM
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8. We don't have anything officially organized
But I imagine that the news will be posted on DU almost instantly, and after that we'll do what we can to encourage people to take action.
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radwriter0555 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-18-05 03:52 PM
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17. Hide under your desks of course!!! Don't you remember your emergency
drills in class????

Your DESK is going to protect you!
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bobthedrummer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-18-05 11:40 AM
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4. Kick.
:dem::kick:
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katinmn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-18-05 11:42 AM
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5. this is a cool maneuver.
now I wish I still had my cell service.
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Just Me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-18-05 11:46 AM
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6. Cool. For those of us cellphoneless folks, ya'll kindly keep us posted!
:hug:
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proud patriot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-18-05 11:47 AM
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7. I wish I had a cell phone
:shrug:
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terrya Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-18-05 11:58 AM
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9. I don't have a cell phone, either.
Couldn't this be used with a regular land line?
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proud patriot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-19-05 03:34 PM
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23. I think there is some kind of text requirement
that only Cell phones have .
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MelissaB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-18-05 02:41 PM
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10. Great tool!
I just signed up. Thanks!
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Lone_Star_Dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-18-05 02:54 PM
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11. Excellent idea on their part
I love new technology and can't think of a better reason to utilize it.




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efhmc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-18-05 02:58 PM
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12. Can you give me someone else to call beside those lousy excuses for
humans, the repuke senators of Texas. Not worth using the free minutes.
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caligirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-18-05 02:59 PM
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13. signed up for this last week, got the confirmation msg from them
Edited on Wed May-18-05 02:59 PM by caligirl
yesterday to stand by for the txt msg. Keeping my phone charged up for this.
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Swamp Rat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-18-05 03:00 PM
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14. Kick
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Midlodemocrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-18-05 03:02 PM
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15. This is a great idea.
Signed up my husband, daughter and son. and me of course.
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Swamp Rat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-18-05 03:49 PM
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16. kick dammit!
:kick:
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livinginphotographs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-18-05 03:54 PM
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18. I signed up.
Not like it'll do a hell of a lot of good to call John Warner and that vile creep George Allen, but I'll try.
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Jacobin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-18-05 03:58 PM
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19. Done. Great Idea
Hope the text message thing works.

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Greyskye Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-18-05 04:21 PM
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20. done
done with a :kick:

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Goldmund Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-18-05 04:36 PM
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21. This is cool, thanks.
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Maine-ah Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-18-05 04:47 PM
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22. kick
I wish I had text messaging on my cp.
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