Clinton and Obama will fight immunity for telecoms -- keep calling Inouye!

01.28.08 - Posted by AsiansVote

Thumbs up to Senators Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama -- Jane Hamsher reports that they will vote against granting telecoms immunity for warrantless wiretapping (which means they'll vote no on cloture today at 4:30 pm).

However, Senator Daniel Inouye has still not indicated how he will vote on this issue. Please feel free to call his office and respectfully but firmly request that he defend the rule of law by voting no on cloture. His office number is (202) 224-3934.

Mcjoan at DailyKos has more on the issue, and provides the following list of other Democratic Senators who could use a phone call or two:

The Senators we need to convince of this are those who voted with the Republicans to table the Leahy substitute amendment, the version of the bill that contained all of those protections, and didn't allow telco amnesty. One of them, Rockefeller, has already said he'll vote no on cloture. Call the rest of the Senators and tell them to stand with their majority on Monday's cloture vote and vote no.

Bayh (202) 224-5623
Carper (202) 224-2441
Inouye (202) 224-3934
Johnson (202) 224-5842
Landrieu (202)224-5824
McCaskill (202) 224-6154
Mikulski (202) 224-4654
Nelson (FL) (202) 224-5274
Nelson (NE) (202) 224-6551
Pryor (202) 224-2353
Salazar (202) 224-5852

UPDATE: In May 2007, Senator Inouye endorsed Clinton for President. In your call to Senator Inouye's office, respectfully suggest that he follow the lead of his preferred presidential candidate by voting against amnesty for the telecoms.

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01.28.08 | 2008 Presidential Candidates , Action Alerts , Candidates & Leaders , Civil Rights & Liberties , Daniel Inouye , Issues