1-800-459-1887

[Sapphire Blue]

Have you called yet? If not, please, please do; it's not too late. The House is in recess until 3:45 Eastern Time, will vote after that.

*** MINIMUM WAGE VOTE IS TODAY! *** PLEASE CALL YOUR REP @ 1-800-459-1887 ***: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x3081499

Thank you,
Sapphire Blue
Resident DU Fanatic Beggar

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[helderheid]

1. it'll pass and let me be the first to recommend this thread!

[Sapphire Blue]

3. Thank you, helderheid! You're #1 with me :)

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[Lars39]

2. kick

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[Sapphire Blue]

4. Thanks, for the kick, Lars39!

:hi: :hug:

[madrchsod]

5. i have to call fat denny.....think he will listen?

[Sapphire Blue]

8. I'm sure he'll be very UNenthusiastic about your call ;)

:hi: He needs to get calls in support of HR 2!

[DearAbby]

6. Can you talk Skinner in lending the grovelbot?

the other thread was getting sluggish, still on dial up here :)

Oh yeah K&R the final push!

[Sapphire Blue]

9. Oh, I wish I could!

:rofl:

Thanks for the K&R! :hug:

[Nutmegger]

7. Let's do this.

:kick: and :thumbsup:!

Thank you SB for all that you do.

[Sapphire Blue]

10. Thanks, Nutmegger!

:hug:

[demnan]

11. Unfortunately mine hates me personally

I was trying to hard to get his opponent in.

no use to call him.

[Sapphire Blue]

12. Please call anyway! 1-800-459-1887 He needs to hear your voice!

:hi:

[Sapphire Blue]

13. .

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[cwydro]

14. kick

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[Sapphire Blue]

15. kick. Please call your Rep @ 1-800-459-1887

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[Sapphire Blue]

16. !

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[patrice]

17. K&R - Are we contacting both the House and the Senate?

please and thanks . . . .

[Sapphire Blue]

18. Today the House.

It's HR 2 - The Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2007

:hug: Thank you for the K&R!

[patrice]

29. I just faxed Dennis Moore . . . .

Re: H.R. 2 Increase in Minimum Wage

This “good” economy isn’t good for way more people than anyone wants to admit. Business should, of course, be encouraged, but that encouragement has turned into Solid-Gold Privilege contributing to extreme in-equalities and enormous stresses in people’s lives from out-of-control im-balances in Social and Economic Justice. Unions are threatened and harassed at any and every opportunity. Health care and insurance costs, private and shared, go up for everyone. Real wages are dropping. The opportunities for non-Corporate citizens to affect their own lives are severely limited by campaign finance corruption. Let’s draw a line and establish a floor for the lower-middle-class, who need it more than the middle-class does. Please act in support of an increase in Minimum Wage, with no other riders and amendments. I hope you help to create an opportunity for a clean vote on this essential social issue.

I look forward to seeing your thoughts on this in the media soon.

Thanks for reading this.

Sincerely,

[Sapphire Blue]

31. Great fax!

[patrice]

32. I took notes from Lawrence O'Donnel the other day on AAR.

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[Sapphire Blue]

19. Please call! 1-800-459-0887. House in recess for 15 more minutes!

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[Sapphire Blue]

20. !!!

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[Sapphire Blue]

21. !!!!

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[Sapphire Blue]

22. !!!!!

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[Sapphire Blue]

23. !!!!!!

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[Sapphire Blue]

33. !!!!!!!

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[hashibabba]

24. I wrote to my idiot the other day. I don't care if he doesn't like me.

He doesn't have to. He just has to hear about all the e-mails and phone calls made on behalf of the raise in min. wage. I've been listening to these repukes all day and I have to say, they're even more dim than I thought they were.

[Sapphire Blue]

25. Thank you for doing that, hashibabba!

:hug: You are so right!

[OhioChick]

26. If you haven't yet...

please call!

1-800-459-1887

Thanks, Sapphire Blue!
:hug:

K&R
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[Sapphire Blue]

28. You're welcome & thanks for your help!

:hi: :hug: They will be voting soon.

[EFerrari]

27. kick

[Sapphire Blue]

30. Still loving Alcee Hastings :D

:puke: on those repub bastards!!

[Sapphire Blue]

34. They haven't voted yet; Please keep calling 1-800-459-1887

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[Sapphire Blue]

35. Rep Miller to repubs: "What is it you don't understand about being poor?"

He keeps getting cheers!

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[Sapphire Blue]

38. !!!

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[Sapphire Blue]

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[Sapphire Blue]

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[Joanne98]

36. I just called

Zach Space to say - DO NOT CAVE on this issue - it's too important and Bush should be forced to either veto just the raise or not, NO MORE MORE BULLSHIT. We get enough of that and nothing else from our government.

[Sapphire Blue]

37. Thank you, Joanne98!

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[OhioChick]

39. Kick!

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[Sapphire Blue]

42. House Majority Leader Hoyer's statement...

Via email...

For Immediate Release
January 10, 2007
Contact: Stacey Farnen Bernards
202-225-3130

Hoyer: We Must Get Minimum Wage Increase to the President's Desk Without Delay


WASHINGTON, DC - House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer (MD) spoke this afternoon at a press conference on H.R. 2, the Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2007. Below are his remarks as prepared for delivery:

"Today, the United States House of Representatives, the People's House, demonstrated that we are committed to addressing the needs of all of our people - including those who struggle to make ends meet on the federal minimum wage.

"Today, the House will pass legislation, on a bipartisan basis, to increase the federal minimum wage by $2.10 per hour over the next three years.

"The minimum wage, of course, has not been increased since September 1, 1997, making this House action long overdue.

"Increasing the minimum wage is simply a matter of doing what's right, just and fair. Eighty-nine percent of the American people support such an increase, according to a Newsweek poll. President Bush has expressed his support. And a bipartisan majority of the Senate passed a minimum wage increase in June 2006.

"Now, we urge our colleagues in the Senate to hold a clean up-or-down vote on this issue as soon as possible.

"In the United States of America, the richest nation on earth, workers should not be relegated to poverty if they work hard and play by the rules.

"On Monday, we commemorate the life of a great American - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. And Dr. King once said: 'Equality means dignity. And dignity demands a job and a paycheck that lasts through the week.'

"Today, we heed those words. We must not ignore our citizens who are struggling. We must get this legislation to the President's desk without delay."

[Sapphire Blue]

43. kick

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[Sapphire Blue]

44. !

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[Joanne98]

45. YAY! WE WON!. Now we need a list of who voted against...

So we can start our negative campaign ads early!:)

[bobbolink]

46. Thanks for all your work on getting this passed, Sapphire Blue!

You're a great cheerleader! :hug:

:applause: :toast:

[Sapphire Blue]

47. Pelosi: ‘Increasing the Minimum Wage Is a Victory for America’s Families’

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x3086160

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