Activity Requests: Leverage Major News Coverage

Carpe Diem a.k.a. Act Now!

It’s rare that we get an open door like the following linked MSNBC article http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38561183/ns/business-consumer_news/ so we have seize the moment and pounce with all we have to get as much mileage out of it as possible. As noted previously, September will be war for HR3149 passage and the following multiple activity requests will help to prime the effort. Any and all media coverage is in most cases helpful if we use the opportunity to correct the misinformation, gather our forces (recruit) and pressure for more media coverage and action by Congress.

Since we have multiple avenues to leverage and attack, we can’t provide you with a one size fits all “sample letter” however, our blog has more than enough previous sample letters and information to copy, paste and edit to make your job easy. As base information to add to, we need to deliver the following:

* Make sure they get the linked article . . .
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38561183/ns/business-consumer_news/

* The idea stated in the article that credit checks provide “legal cover” is only a propaganda smokescreen to continue the practice. Since almost half the workforce has damaged credit and 86 percent of Americans “live beyond their means” a credit report measures nothing and indicates nothing in regard to potential theft and fraud in the workplace. It’s simply marketing spin by the credit bureaus and a way for them to make a buck off the downtrodden in America.

* Opportunities to explain anything are ZERO (nor does any employer have the constitutional right to violate an American's privacy for the right to work) Any job candidate with “bad credit” simply doesn’t get the job . . . end of story!

Again, to finish out your pitches and letters see the multitude of sample letters and information in previous blog entries and just copy, paste, edit, etc. (It’s NOT rocket science.) Send your e-mails, letters, etc. to the following contact points and media outlets:

1) E-mail Letter to the Commitee:

http://financialservices.house.gov/contact/contact.shtml

E-mail Representative(s) on the House Committee on Financial Services . . .

1A) See if YOUR Representative is one of the 71 members on the House Committee on Financial Services, search by State and District (via the link below)http://financialservices.house.gov/singlepages.aspx?NewsID=397

You’ll need to have your full 9 digit zip code handy. Use the following link to look it up if you don’t already know it.

http://zip4.usps.com/zip4/welcome.jsp

2) Hit the House and Senate Leaders

2A) Speaker of the House, link below, add name, e-mail address, zip, copy sample letter below and paste into form, edit to suit you and send.
http://speaker.house.gov/contact/

2B) House Minority Leader, link below, add name, e-mail address and send, or use the e-mail address provided.
http://republicanleader.house.gov/contact/

2C) Senate Majority Leader, link below, add name add personal info., etc. copy and paste sample letter below into form, edit to suit you and send.
http://reid.senate.gov/contact/

2D) Senate Minority Leader, link below, add name add personal info., etc. copy and paste sample letter below into form, edit to suit you and send.
http://mcconnell.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?p=ContactForm

3 President Obama
http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact

4) Contact Your Members of Congress

Find Your 9 Digit Zip Code before you begin, you’ll need your full 9 digit zip code. Simply go to the link below and plug in your address and it will provide your full 9 digit zip.
http://zip4.usps.com/zip4/welcome.jsp

4A) Contact YOUR member(s) the House of Representatives
https://writerep.house.gov/writerep/welcome.shtml

Simply click on the link above and follow the steps, select your state, enter your full 9 digit zip code, click “contact my representative,” answer the security question, plug in your personal information, paste in your letter, edit to suit you and hit “send message.”

DO NOT forget to seach for upcoming town hall meetings.

4B) Contact YOUR Senator(s)http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm

Simply click on the link above, choose your state, choose your senator(s), go to their website(s) and navigate their website looking for “contact info.” then follow their steps, copy and paste in your letter, edit to suit you and hit “send.”

DO NOT forget to seach for upcoming town hall meetings.

5) Use the contact info. from the Outreach to Opponents we just did and hit them with the article and another letter.

http://hr3149.blogspot.com/2010/07/activity-requests-contact-your-house.html

6) Outreach to Newspaper Outlets . . . the link below is a previous Activity Request, nothing has been revised for this effort, however, the effort, contact points, strategy, etc. hasn't changed. In short we want to get this article to every newspaper in America and ask them to cover the story a.k.a. answer to their readership for a change. Use the information from #5 above and DEMAND THAT THEY ASK THE CANDIDATES ABOUT THEIR POSITION AND REPORT IT TO THE PEOPLE!

http://hr3149.blogspot.com/2010/04/massive-newspaper-outreach-campaign.html