Jeff who? Dealing with the office of Senator Arlen Specter

LiviaOlivia

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Thu Feb-24-05 02:02 AM
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Jeff who? Dealing with the office of Senator Arlen Specter

From Jesus' General 02-23-05, commenting on a comment at Americablog.

Jeff who?

I was reading the Frenchman, Aravosis', comments when I came across the following:

I live in PA. I emailed Arlen Specter, my only sane senate rep, and chairman of the US Senate Committee on the Judiciary, imploring him to investigate the Gannon/Guckert scandal. I received an automated reply stating "...help me respond to your concerns in a more prompt and efficient manner..." and instructions.

Following his instructions, I called his Washington office, who transferred me to his Judiciary Committee office. The woman who answered the phone, asked me what my email was about and when I told her she said:

"I haven't heard anything about this."

After re-gaining my composure, I asked how that was possible. She said, "Well I watch the news all the time. There's nothing on Fox about it."

I suggested politely that this wasn't surprising. She put me on hold. When she came back she asked me to explain the story to her again.

After almost re-re-gaining my composure, I badly paraphrased the last week or so. She put me on hold again. This time, I prepared. When she came back, I made her listen as I read a 5-day-old story from the Washington Post, quoting Brian Williams' NBC report. She became a little annoyed and said "well, I watch CNN too and haven't seen anything about it."

I said "he was interviewed by Anderson Cooper on his show. You know, The Anderson Cooper Show?"

She suggested I fax my email to the office and after legal looked it over, it might warrant a memo to the senator in about a week.

Great. Thanks.

Here's my suggestion. *Everyone* that has any info on the Gannon/Guckert story fax *all* of it to:

202-224-9102
ATTN: Vianna

I'm glad that the Judiciary Committee is concentrating on more important things like punishing people for being poor.

http://patriotboy.blogspot.com/2005_02_20_patriotboy_archive.html#110919394877777275

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GetTheRightVote

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Thu Feb-24-05 02:07 AM
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1. Should we give them a few calls suggesting they follow up on the story

:kick:

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BrklynLiberal

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Thu Feb-24-05 02:10 AM
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2. Someone needs to roll the big rock away from the front of their cave.

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pauliedangerously

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Thu Feb-24-05 02:19 AM
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3. That's too funny...

You should have asked her if she knew how many Iraqi terorists were on board the jets that flew into the WTC.

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FreedomAngel82

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Thu Feb-24-05 02:41 AM
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4. Wow

Talk about ignoring. Has Fox talked about this at all?

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EFerrari

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Thu Feb-24-05 02:45 AM
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5. I'm so sorry but this made me laugh out loud

Didn't Arlen come up with the "magic bullet" theory? Was that him? Maybe he'll come up with a "magic escort" theory to explain this one.

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HamstersFromHell

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Thu Feb-24-05 03:06 AM
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7. They've had their "magic bullet" for years now...

....the Clenis did it, you know.

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JohnnyRingo

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Thu Feb-24-05 03:03 AM
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6. Oh....You don't watch Fox?

"You must be a Liberal Lefty "
"Or a far left bomb thrower"
"Left wing fringe group"
"Hate America"

Has the country gone Republican crazy?

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EFerrari

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Thu Feb-24-05 03:24 AM
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8. I don't think these people are Republicans, they're Replicants

Lookit what they tried to do to Arlen!

I miss real Republicans. They were wrong but they weren't crazy.

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blondeatlast

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Thu Feb-24-05 08:51 AM
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11. God, me too. Remember when our congress people cared

about the country?

Sometimes it's painful being a child of the '60s.

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Skidmore

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Thu Feb-24-05 05:06 AM
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9. Believe me, they know about it and

are playing dumb. Government offices love gossip, especially gossip that may have some impact on the power structure. You can safely bet that Jeff is the talk around the water cooler.

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Califooyah Operative

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Thu Feb-24-05 08:39 AM
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10. Rick Santorum was just on imus and pulled a "jeff who?" himeself,

Imus said the prostitue journalists, and santorum said oh i dont know his namem, but i know the story, in fact, he played stupid pretty badly and go sort of defensive, he thought imus was asking if there was a relationship, it was rather interesting.

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SpiralHawk

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Thu Feb-24-05 10:24 AM
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12. Sen. Spector's email address

for those without faxes...

arlen_specter@specter.senate.gov

I just got my polite request to investigate publically off to him.

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