Ready to gang-email Manny Miranda?....(thief of Dem memos)

[AnnInLa]

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Manny Miranda
by kos
Wed May 18th, 2005 at 14:46:55 PDT

Manny Manuel, the thief who was fired by Orin Hatch for stealing Democratic memos from Senate servers is now leading the Nuclear Option fight on behalf of Frist. In a recent email to Frist allies, he wrote:
straightforward rallying cry: NO DEALS, VOTE PRINCIPLE
The email address he's using to rally his troops and wage this battle:

[e-mail]

One possibility: remind him what Hatch said of his thieving actions:
mortified that this improper, unethical and simply unacceptable breach of confidential files may have occurred on my watch.
Improper? Check. Unethical? Yup. Unacceptable? Damn right.

And he's still on their team.

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[Gothmog]

1. The man is a crook

How can a crook like this person have any credibility.

[AnnInLa]

2. I don't know....but let's shut down his email box

Kos wouldn't have posted his email address if he didn't want me to send MM a nasty email, which I just did. (Sometimes ya just gotta do SOMETHING, ANYTHING)

[lala_rawraw]

3. Raw Story article

published earlier today:

Chairman of coalition aimed at killing filibuster pirated Dem, GOP memos on judicial nominees

RAW STORY

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The chairman of a massive coalition of groups working to kill the filibuster was forced to resign from the Senate Judiciary Committee last year after admitting to raiding thousands of private Democratic and GOP strategy memos relating to judicial nominees without permission—a fact that continues to go unnoticed in media reports, RAW STORY has found.

Chairman of the National Coalition to End Judicial Filibusters Manuel Miranda admitted to accessing thousands of private Democratic and Republican memos without permission in 2004, which he likened to “to finding documents left on his desk.”

He was a formerly counsel to Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN) on judicial nominations.

A probe in early 2004 concluded “that more than 4,500 files of committee Democrats were accessed by former Hatch aides Manuel Miranda and Jason Lundell.” His tapping of strategy memos on judicial nominees went on for months; their contents appeared in the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Times.

Republican Senator Orrin Hatch, Former Chairman of the Judiciary Committee also complained in a Deseret Morning News article in 2004 that Miranda accessed about 100 of his own files ...
http://rawstory.com/exclusives/byrne/miranda_memo_judicial_nominees_518

[IthinkThereforeIAM]

4. Done

... eom.

[DTinAZ]

5. make him eat his own words...

Here's a link to a PDF version of a letter he sent out on behalf of the "National Coalition to End Judicial Filibusters:"

http://www.traditionalvalues.org/pdf_files/coalition_letter.pdf

Download it to your desktop and attach it to an email sent to his mailbox with your comments. That's what I just did.

[AnnInLa]

6. oh...good idea....does that make the box fill up faster? eom

[DTinAZ]

7. yes, the bigger the attachment, the better...

...you might send him your favorite progressive MP3 for example (as long as it's one that's legal to share).

[AnnInLa]

8. Update from Kos

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"Throughout Senate history, "unlimited debate" -- which can include filibusters -- has been permitted to block action on nominees and most legislation. Since 1975, 60 votes in the 100-member chamber have been required to shut off debate. Republicans held 51 seats in 2003, and 55 seats now.

With the Estrada debate underway, Republicans threatened lawsuits and political retribution. But it was not until Stevens raised the "Hulk" option that serious talk of a historic rewrite of Senate precedents ensued. It gained momentum after Republicans found misplaced computer memos by Democratic staff members talking of even more possible filibusters -- suggesting that the Democrats had a secret plan for blocking several more candidates.

Within weeks of the "Hulk" meeting, former Republican leader Trent Lott (Miss.) coined the term "nuclear option" to describe a rule change that would ban judicial filibusters and allow up-or-down votes on the president's nominees. The notion once had seemed unimaginable, but Lott and other conservatives now favored it.

Miranda's breaking the law has led to Frist's breaking the Senate rules. That is what the Republican Party has become in a nutshell."

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