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The "pink slips" being sent to members of Congress, warning them to abandon Washington's "charge-it-and-spend-it" programs, new energy taxes under "cap-and-trade" and nationalized health care, have surged past 5 million, but supporters of the program say they need to keep coming.
Janet Porter, founder and president of Faith2Action and one of the organizers behind the "pink slips" campaign, was at a news conference today in Washington where U.S. Reps Michelle Bachmann, R-Minn.; Louie Gohmert, R-Texas; Steve King, R-Iowa; and Trent Franks, R-Ariz., hailed the effort as an innovative new vehicle for the American people to express themselves to members of Congress.
She said it's clear the message delivered through a stack of "pink slips" now standing approximately five feet high in congressional offices is getting through.
"They are hearing us, even those who don't want to hear. They're still listening," she told WND. "Those who are on the fence, this may give them the courage to stand up to the arm-twisting."
For just $29.95 you can send an individualized notice to every member of Congress in the form of a "pink slip" with their name on it and your name on it.
"It's an amazing feat, to get that many slips to Congress," King told WND. "If you look through them, you can index each one back to an individual.
"That's powerful. There is a person behind each one of the slips," he said.
The number of "pink slips" is staggering, because they weren't from people who were answering a telephone poll and participating in a survey, he noted.
Each of the participants, he said, "wrote a check to send a message."
But more are needed.
"It's going to take the American people well-informed to win," he said. The "pink slips" remind members of Congress they actually work for the taxpayers and list four governmental plans that are unacceptable:
* government health care
* cap and trade
* "hate crimes"
* any more spending
"If you vote for any of these, your real pink slip will be issued in the next election," it warns.
The "pink slips" campaign has been coordinated by Joseph Farah, founder and CEO of WND. He said he wasn't sure at the launch that 5 million "pink slips" would be possible. "Now I think maybe 10 million might be possible," he said.
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"One of the questions I get from colleagues is why a news agency would involve itself in a political advocacy campaign like the 'pink slips' effort. The answer is that I am an American first and a newsman second. I don't want to see the foundations that made this country great and that made the notion of a free press possible destroyed. And that's why we got behind this campaign," he said. The program already has been the talk of Congress, albeit not always on the floor of the House or Senate.
"They're talking about it, but they're only talking about it behind closed doors and in the elevators as they go up and down and in very whispered tones," Rep. Tom Price, R-Ga., has said. "Because, what you hear are people saying, 'How many of those did you get or how many people came to your office today? And what are you going to do and how are you going to vote on this?'"
DeMint told Porter on a recent radio show that some of the bills now pending in Congress already would have been law had it not been for the "pink slips" appearing in inboxes daily.
The notices, if stacked vertically, would be approximately three times as tall as the Washington Monument and surpass the Sears Tower in Chicago. Put end-to-end they would stretch from the Sears Tower to Washington, D.C.
"Those who are working toward this agenda, deficit spending and the like, they are tripping over slips as they go to cast their votes," Porter said.
In a column a day earlier, she noted, "Its encouraging to know that message is finally being heard and not a moment too soon. "While the tea parties and town halls seem to have fallen on deaf ears, thankfully, the pink slip message is starting to be heard," she wrote. ...
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