http://www.house.gov/apps/list/hearing/financialsvcs_dem/hrfi_050510.shtml
Wednesday May 12, 10:00 a.m.
Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit to hold hearing on Use of Credit Information Beyond Lending Issues and Reform Proposals that will include HR3149: The Equal Employment for All Act. This is the prelude hearing/discussion to what we've all been working toward for months and months. It just got sprung to us, so we have to shift gears and react NOW and into the weekend and next week. Bottom-line we want the hearing to get national coverage and exposure. We cobbled together the following quick draft media outreach letter and national media contact list in order to get this moving quickly. Please Act NOW! and stay tuned . . .
Media Outreach for Hearing Coverage
[Sample Letter]
On Wednesday May 12 beginning at 10:00 a.m., the Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit is holding a hearing on the Use of Credit Information Beyond Lending Issues and Reform Proposals that will include HR3149: The Equal Employment for All Act. This hearing and in particular HR3149 warrants your coverage because more than 100 million people are impacted and more than 25 million Americans are currently under or unemployed. In America today, you don’t work with damaged credit due primarily to the recession because 50% of all jobs and 80% of all white collar jobs require Americans to submit a personal credit report in exchange for the right to work. It’s wrong and it’s being perpetrated by the big three credit bureaus just to make a buck.
Hundreds of thousands of dollars in credit bureau PAC money have been funneled into Congress and this committee in particular. The votes have been bought and the hearing will be a kangaroo hearing without your bright lights shinning upon the committee for all the world to see. The preliminary hearing to this one was a joke. No reporters, no cameras and zero national exposure. The three credit bureaus were given the floor and free reign to spew their vile propaganda and only one person was there to speak for “the people.” Without your cameras and reporters this hearing will be a repeat performance of corporations stomping upon the will of 90% of America that demand HR3149 be passed now!
Please don’t allow a repeat performance. Please perform the highly esteemed role that the free press in America has performed so valiantly over time by covering this hearing from gavel to gavel and exposing the PAC money buying votes within Congress and this committee. Without you, “we the people” and HR3149 don’t have a chance of success. I humbly urge you to please stand up for and represent the people of America that are being pummeled by the sale of their personal credit reports to employers in order to fund the corporate coffers and pure greed of the big three credit bureaus.
Information on the hearing is linked as follows:
http://www.house.gov/apps/list/hearing/financialsvcs_dem/hrfi_050510.shtml
End Sample Letter]
National Media Contact List
NBC News & MSNBC
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29104230/
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28437928/ns/msnbc_tv-morning_joe/
hardball@msnbc.com
Countdown@msnbc.com
rachel@msnbc.com
Washington Post:
letters@washpost.com
CNN MoneyUse link below, select "News Alert Problem or a Question"
http://money.cnn.com/services/speakup/speakup.html
CNN, CNN Website, etc.
caffertyfile@cnn.com
http://www.cnn.com/feedback/forms/form11b.html?
http://www.cnn.com/feedback/forms/form5.html?
http://www.cnn.com/feedback/forms/form5.am.html
http://www.cnn.com/feedback/forms/form4.html?2
http://www.cnn.com/feedback/forms/form5.html?24
CBS News: Use the following link and hit: CBS Evening News w/Katie Couric, CBS Morning News and The Early Show
http://www.cbsnews.com/htdocs/feedback/fb_news_form.shtml?tag=contentAux;ad-googleAdSense
Use the following link and hit: CBS Evening News http://www.cbs.com/info/user_services/fb_global_form.php
ABC News
http://abcnews.go.com/Site/page?id=3271346&cat=World%20News%20with%20Charles%20Gibsonhttp://abcnews.go.com/Site/page?id=3052660http://abcnews.go.com/Site/page?id=3428117
MSNBC
john.schoen@msnbc.com
Fox News
yourcomments@foxnews.com
oreilly@foxnews.com
newsmanager@foxnews.com
Real Clear Politics.com
letters@realclearpolitics.com
john@realclearpolitics.com
tom@realclearpolitics.com
The Wall Street Journal
kristen.mcnamara@dowjones.com
Slate
Slatedcoffice@slate.com
nyoffice@slate.com
NY Times:
washington@nytimes.com
managing-editor@nytimes.com
national@nytimes.com
letters@nytimes.com
LA Times
Russ.stanton@latimes.com
Davan.maharaj@latimes.com
Jon.thurber@latimes.com
Sean.gallagher@latimes.com
NY Daily News
voicers@edit.nydailynews.com
The Source
editorial@thesource.com
Tavis Smiley
http://www.tavissmileyradio.com/tell.html
Washington Journal – Radio Call In.
journal@c-span.org
Real Clear Politics
letters@realclearpolitics.com
Counter Punch
counterpunch@counterpunch.org
The Hill
letters@thehill.com
Washington Monthly
editors@washingtonmonthly.com
Stltoday.com
siteeditor@stltoday.com
NY Daily News
voicers@edit.nydailynews.com
PBS/NPR
onlineda@newshour.org
Drudge Report
drudge@drudgereport.com
Salon
readermail@salon.com
jwalsh@salon.com
klauerman@salon.com
Truthdig
feedback@truthdig.com
Free Speech TV
viewercomments@freespeech.org
Washington Week w/Gwen Ifill
http://www.pbs.org/weta/washingtonweek/feedback.html
The Union Edge Talk Radio
http://theunionedge.com/contact
The Source
editorial@thesource.com
Politics Daily
http://www.politicsdaily.com/contact/melinda-henneberger
Insider
insider@govtrack.us
Washington Journal – Radio Call In.
journal@c-span.org
Roll Call
http://www.rollcall.com/cgi-bin/udt/fdc.collector?
http://www.rollcall.com/cgi-bin/udt/fdc.collector?
http://www.rollcall.com/cgi-bin/udt/fdc.collector?
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