I am meeting my Congressman - what should I talk to him about?

[IkeWarnedUs]

I met my Congressman (D-IL) last week and told him I would like to meet with him. He gave me his card and told me who to call. Now I have an appointment.

It will be just me and the Congressman - maybe an aide - in his local office.

I have some ideas, but I wanted to toss it out to DU'ers.

I expect to have at least 15-20 minutes with him - maybe much more. What do you think I should talk to him about?

[madmax]

1. BBV ....we want paper trail.

What will happen with a 2000 redux. Will Congress allow the USSC to intervene again and pick their boy?

[Doomsayer13]

2. who's your congressman?

[IkeWarnedUs]

10. Danny Davis n/t

[Nickster]

25. Danny Davis of Rev Moon film fame?

Maybe it's just me, but I'd really like to know what he thought was going on while presenting a crown to Moon. That just gave me the willies knowing that was a congressman from my state.

[Cleita]

3. Children.

The homeless ones, the ones with no medical care, the ones whose education is detiorating. The ones without decent food and shelter. Just a start.

[GreenPartyVoter]

4. Election reforms like

these:

http://www.geocities.com/greenpartyvoter/

The sooner we can get a better election system in place, the sooner we will get better elected officials and therefore better policies.

[amandabeech]

5. Peak oil and natural gas depletion.

Make sure he understands that we aren't going to be able to import 65% of our oil forever, and that importing natural gas to run all those power plants is going to be difficult and extremely expensive. Better that wheat gas we have go into heating our homes and businesses. I'm from Michigan and I know it gets cold up there. He or she might want to call the USGS/EIA on their unbelievably optimistic statistics on availability of oil and gas into the future.

Also suggest that replacement technologies must use less energy to produce and deliver fuel than the fuel will give us when consumed, or construct electricity generation facilities, like wind and solar, that will give us more energy during their useful lives, excluding electricity generated when it is not needed or lost in storage, than the energy needed for their construction.

I have never heard any politician directly confront those problems.

[strategery blunder]

6. Raising the minimum wage.

I pushed wheelchairs at ORD over summer and it paid minimum plus tips. I was the only one who wasn't trying to make a living off the meager income (saving some spending money for college). I can't imagine thinking "I have to make $20 in tips today or I can't feed my child dinner tonight." So depressing to be in such an environment...

FYI, wheelchair pushers are not allowed to solicit for tips but we may accept them if the passenger offers.

[Pastiche423]

8. Could you elaborate

on your last paragraph, please.

[strategery blunder]

9. The Air Carrier Access Act

requires the airlines to offer wheelchair service free of charge. So we are not allowed to SOLICIT tips. It's kind of like ADA for airports.

However, if a passenger hands you money voluntarily (about two-thirds do), you are allowed to accept the tip.

[Pallas180]

7. Print out "American Judas" in Editorials and give it to him to

read so he can no the treasonous acts Cheney and Halliburton have
committed against America...seling Pakistan nuclear components through
about 25 "shell" companies..." AMERICAN JUDAS- SELLING THE SECURITY OF AMERICA-30 PIECES OF SILVER"

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103x69033


Have him take a look at this and ask him does he realize that the
"pre-emptive wars" on Afghanistan and Iraq were about securing all the
land and the Caspian Sea for gas and oil pipelines to be built for private oil companies at the expense of 1000 kids in the US Army for the members of this "Chamber of Commerce", that aside from members Cheney, Perle, Baker,and Kissinger, the others are officers of American oil companies:


http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=US-Azerbai...


US-Azerbaijan Chamber of Commerce

According to the official web site, United States-Azerbaijan Chamber of Commerce (USACC) is an "independent, non-profit American organization, whose purpose is to facilitate business and cooperation between the American people and the people of Azerbaijan." USACC is a nonprofit corporation in the District of Columbia and is recognized as a 501 (c)(6) tax-exempt organization under the Internal Revenue Code.


Table of contents
1 Goals

2 Azerbaijan Trade and Cultural Center

2.1 Officers

3 Contact

4 External Links




Goals
The stated goals of the USACC are:


To facilitate and encourage trade and investment in Azerbaijan;

To provide a forum for members to interact with policy makers from Azerbaijan and the United States as well as with non-governmental experts.

To serve as a liaison with governmental and non-governmental entities, business organizations, think tanks, and to encourage cooperation and information exchange;

To provide reliable information and networking services and create an environment where partnerships and exchanges thrive;

To sponsor educational programs, trade missions, seminars, conferences and publications to foster cultural and business interests;

To create more understanding and knowledge about the Republic of Azerbaijan in the United States through the Azerbaijan Trade and Cultural Center; and

To develop and maintain humanitarian programs for the refugee population of Azerbaijan.

Azerbaijan Trade and Cultural Center
The USACC also owns and operates The Azerbaijan Trade and Cultural Center, which is a "four-story historic building ... located in the heart of Georgetown at 1212 Potomac Street." The Azerbaijan Trade and Cultural Center was inaugurated by His Excellency Heydar Aliyev, President, Republic of Azerbaijan on September 11, 2000.


Officers
Honorary Council of Advisors

James Addison Baker III
Lloyd Bentsen
Zbigniew Brzezinski
Richard Bruce Dick Cheney (resigned November 2000)

Henry Kissinger
Brent Scowcroft
John Sununu
Chairman Emeritus

T. Don Stacy
Co-Chairman of the Board

Tim Cejka
Reza Vaziri
Vice-Chairman of the Board

James A. Baker IV
Board of Directors

Richard Armitage (resigned February 2001)

Farhad Azima
Betty Blair
Howard Chase
Don Condon
Stanley Escudero
Nader Fahm
Andrew Fawthrop
Mike Kostiw
David Sambrooks
Gregory K. Williams
Board of Trustees

Abdullah Akyuz
Ilham Aliyev
Graham Allison
Sam Brownback
Frank Henke
Richard Moncrief
Hafiz Pashayev
Richard N. Perle
Joseph R. Pitts
John Roberts
Stephen Robertson
Nancy Tuomey
Frank Verrastro
Officers

Theodore Ted Jonas, Legal Counsel & Secretary

Karl Mattison, Treasurer

Seymour Khalilov, Executive Director


Contact
US-Azerbaijan Chamber of Commerce
1212 Potomac Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20007
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]
E-mail: [e-mail]
http://www.usacc.org/chamber/prof-about.htm



External Links

Announcing The US-Azerbaijan Chamber of Commerce, Azerbaijan International, Spring 1996. "The Chamber extends deep appreciation to the following companies which have contributed to its establishment: Amoco, BP America, Chevron, Exxon, Mobil, Occidental, Panalpina, and Unocal."
Caspian Watch # 5: Senator Byrd Takes the Lead in Securing U.S. Access To 200 Billion Barrels of Oil in the Caspian Sea, Center for Security Policy, February 1997. "This conference, sponsored by the US-Azerbaijan Chamber of Commerce (USACC), involved some 300 participants, including in addition to Senator Robert Byrd: former Secretary of Defense Richard Bruce Dick Cheney, former Assistant Secretary of Defense Richard N. Perle, former Deputy Energy Secretary William White, U.S. Ambassador to Azerbaijan Richard Kauzlarich, Azerbaijan's Ambassador to the U.S. Hafiz Pashayev and the former U.S. mediator on the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict Ambassador John
Maresca."

***************************************

Isn't anybody wondering what such heavy hitters, including Perle and some other well known former senators and government people, are doing
on some little country nobody ever heard of Chamber of Commerce?

[Jane Austin]

11. I think besides Paper Verification of Votes, the most

important change we could have would be in drawing Congressional districts.

Iowa does theirs with a non-partisan commission, and it shows.

Here in Texas, ours is just a political travesty.

Whoever works to get the partisanship out of redistricting could save the country, and will be my hero.

[IkeWarnedUs]

12. Meeting with Danny Davis

I think I know what I will talk with him about.

I am bringing information about PNAC. I want to know if he is aware of the group, its September 2000 report, "Rebuilding American's Defenses - Strategy, Forces and Resources for a New Century" (I made a copy for him with flags on sections I want to be sure he sees) and how the report's recommendations are coming to pass.

I am also bringing information about BBV and HAVA. I was heartened to see that the House passed a resolution saying that no agency or individual should be given the authority to postpone the date of a national election. I would prefer it was a bill, but I doubt Hastert would have allowed it to be voted on anyway. I want to be sure he and his fellow Congressmen are fully aware of the dangers to our elections.

I printed out "AMERICAN JUDAS- SELLING THE SECURITY OF AMERICA-30 PIECES OF SILVER" as suggested by Pallas180 in this thread and will give him that as well.

I am bringing information on Sibel Edmonds, including her open letter of August 1, 2004.

I don't know how much time I will have with him, so I am going with a lot of things for him to read. Unlike our president, he is a true academic who actually reads. I do intend to ask him if he is aware of each of these issues and to what extent. I also want to know if he believes his fellow Congressmen and women are aware of them.

Finally, I intend to ask what he suggests I do in this upcoming election. He has a pretty solid lock on his race. I want his opinion on the most effective way to use my time and talents between now and November 2.

I still have a little time if anyone has any other suggestions.

[IkeWarnedUs]

15. Does anyone have links to Plame Indictment threads?

I have links for threads 1 - 7, but there is no link for 8 in thread 7.

I would like to include them at the end of the American Judas piece.

[Pallas180]

17. Xrist, Ike, Shraby, RobertPaulsen , RebelYell and I wrote about 14 of thos

threads...being the main investigators -and believe me nobody is going to read all 20 -

RP Schraby, Zen and I have solved the Edmonds' mystery we're pretty
sure and I'm writing a paper on that...which should blow the wigs
off our congresscritters. AND the media.

Will get it to you.

But here you go on the Plame threads:...some have to be opened in
"Open in New Window"


Pallas180 (1000+ posts) Tue Aug-17-04 09:35 AM
Response to Reply #2

3. PREVIOUS 19 PLAME THREADS IN PDF & URL


Thu Aug-12-04 11:42 PM
Response to Reply #4

6. PREVIOUS 18 PLAME THREADS IN PDF WORD FORMAT

Edited on Thu Aug-12-04 11:52 PM by Pallas180
PREVIOUS 16 PLAME THREADS IN PDF WORD FORMAT


Plame PDFs 1-16 can be found here,
http://s93118771.onlinehome.us/DU/PlameIndictments.html


Plame Indictments Thread # 17 here:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph ...


Plame Indictments Thread # 18 here:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph ...

Plame Indictments Thrad #19 here:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph...

[Pallas180]

23. IKEWARNEDUS - pls don't start with PNAC - it goes back to Zbgnew

Brzinski and his book " The New Pearl Harbor"

Pallas180 (1000+ posts) Sat Aug-21-04 07:26 PM
Response to Reply #119

155. Zbigniew Brzezinski


Zbigniew Brzezinski and "The New Pearl Harbor"


Brzezinski with Osama photos here:
http://www.geocities.com/RepresentativePress/binLadenph ...



"Between 1978 and 1992, the US government poured at least US$6 billion (some estimates range as high as $20 billion) worth of arms, training and funds to prop up the mujaheddin factions.

Other Western governments, as well as oil-rich Saudi Arabia, kicked in as much again. Wealthy Arab fanatics, like Osama bin Laden, provided millions more.

Washington's policy in Afghanistan was shaped by Carter's national security advisor, Zbigniew Brzezinski, and was continued by his successors. His plan went far beyond simply forcing Soviet troops to withdraw; rather it aimed to foster an international movement to spread Islamic fanaticism into the Muslim Central Asian Soviet republics to destabilise the Soviet Union."

(well that worked well, didn't it Ziggy?)

http://www.meta-religion.com/Secret_societies/Conspirac ...





This is what you want to show Davis...there are three books -

87. the plan - waiting for the opportunity

Years, even decades before 9/11, plans had been drawn up for American forces to take control of the oil interests of the Middle East, for various imperialist reasons. And these plans were only contingent upon "a catastrophic and catalyzing event, like a new Pearl Harbor," to gain the majority support of the American public to set the plans into motion. When the opportunity presented itself, the guards looked the other way . . . and presto, the path to global domination was open.

Simple, as long as the media played along. And there is voluminous evidence that the media play along. Number one on Project Censored's annual list of underreported stories in 2002 was the Project for a New American Century (now the infrastructure of the Bush Regime), whose report, published in 2000, contains the above "Pearl Harbor" quote.

snip

That "Rebuilding America's Defenses," the Project for a New American Century's 2000 report, and "The Grand Chessboard," a book published a few years earlier by Trilateral Commission co-founder Zbigniew Brzezinski, both recommended a more robust and imperial US military presence in the oil basin of the Middle East and the Caspian region; and that both also suggested that American public support for this energy crusade would depend on public response to a new "Pearl Harbor," is not "theory." It's fact.

http://www.onlinejournal.com/Commentary/011004Hasty/011 ...

[Pallas180]

24. IKE IF YOU'RE STILL THERE...I HAVE SOMETHING BETTER FOR YOU

TO GIVE TO DAVIS....

which I'll DU email to you


but only give it to him if has a lot of guts........

Pallas

[IkeWarnedUs]

27. I am about to walk out the door

Had to check this thread first (I'm gonna need a 12 step program someday - I'm addicted).

I just sent you a PM. I have to leave very soon to be on time.

I'll check here again before I go.

[IkeWarnedUs]

28. Pallas180 - links don't work

At least they didn't for me.

I got "Page not found".

[Rose Siding]

13. On which positions is he weak?

That would make a difference. For example, I'd never waste time (beyond an "atta boy") telling my Rep, McDermott, about health ins, parity for mental illness, the Iraq war, or veterans because I already know they are his strengths.

How is your rep at getting media coverage?

[IkeWarnedUs]

16. Davis' strengths

He has been a champion for issues important to his district such as education, health care, prison reform and economic development. He voted against authorizing the president to go to war in October 2002.

He is excellent at getting local media coverage (Chicago), but not one of the big faces in DC.

[Rose Siding]

21. Does he hold open town hall type meetings?

I'm on the cusp between McD and Inslee (which I happily exploit) and when Inslee had Joe Wilson speak at a local auditorium, thousands showed on a weekday morning. It was important, I think, because you could see how concerned all your neighbors are about the same things you care about.

Can you think of any well-known figures that might appeal to your area that way? Gen Clark might have a broad and timely appeal.

My suggestion is along these lines because I think our greatest challenge is getting more people involved in the process.

[truthspeaker]

14. Iraq Iraq Iraq: Soldiers are dying because Bush is lying

Tell him he needs to make a bigger stink. Remind him how the GOP wouldn't shut up about Clinton's one lie.

[coalition_unwilling]

18. Impeaching Bush impractical

How about impeaching Rumsfeld for gross malfeasance and incompetence

[Pallas180]

26. How bout impeaching them all for TREASON and showing

the proof?

We have the proof - but we need everyone's help in sendin to media
and congress

Will anyone here do it if I post it?

[goodhue]

19. Reducing troop presence in Iraq as soon as possible.

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

20. Talk to him

about government being effective for the average person. Talk to him about government spending on behalf of corporate America. Talk to him about a system of health care for every citizen.
Have we given you enough ideas? :)

[Tsiyu]

22. Tell Him To Stand Up For Us

Remind him that Dems elected him to "have our backs." Tell him that many, many Democrats you know are angry and want to see the same righteous indignation in the words and actions of our elected representatives.

Tell him that the nation may be polarized, but it's no longer along the lines of "bullies vs. doormats." Dems are ready to fight hard, and we "have the backs" of any Dem legislators who have the courage to stand up to the bast**ds.

Tell him we are tired of losing our best in a war abroad, while our Dem legislators are too scared to "fight the war" at home.