Mobilize the American people for HR3149

SUBJECT: Act NOW America to protect YOUR Right to Work!!!

MSNBC: "Bad credit sidelines some jobless workers"

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35512038/ns/business-eye_on_the_economy//

HR3149: The Equal Employment for All Act referenced in the above linked article has been stalled in the House of Representatives since July . . . simply because Congress is being “bribed” to squash it via lobbyist money from corporations and the big three credit bureaus. DON’T ALLOW YOUR MEMBERS OF CONGRESS TO BE BOUGHT OFF AND BRIBED!

More than 8 million of your fellow Americans have lost their jobs, 17.5 million are currently under or unemployed and many are caught in a catch 22 where bad credit = no job opportunities. That is just WRONG!!!! since it’s primarily due to Wall Street’s greed and its impact on our economy. After using your tax dollars to bail out Wall Street, Congress is being bought off by lobbyists to continue allowing workplace discrimination based upon YOUR personal credit report.

Contact YOUR members of Congress NOW and force them to pass HR3149

1) 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

2) 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 the sample message you will find below and hit “send message.”

3) 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 the sample message below and hit “send.”

[Sample Message - Copy and Paste]

As a regular voter and your loyal constituent, I request that you do your part to get HR3149: The Equal Employment for All Act passed now. I’m aware of lobbyist;/PAC money being funneled to Washington by the big three credit bureaus and corporations trying to block passage of this critical legislation. I demand that you not be bribed or bought off by the corporate PACs and lobbyists.

You were elected to represent the people and the American voters, not the lobbyists. At least 90 percent of the American people believe that workplace discrimination based upon someone’s personal credit report is WRONG and I am one of those Americans. If the will of 90 percent of Americans is not being followed by passing HR3149, how can any American not believe Washington is corrupt and bought off by lobbyists and corporate PACs?

Business as usual in Washington,” where lobbyists and corporate money buy votes and block legislation, must come to an end. If there was any real concern for the American people, Congress would have already passed HR3149 by now instead of working behind the scenes with the corporate elite to stall it. After all, it was Congress that enabled Wall Street’s greed in the first place and now you refuse to even lift a finger to help combat the damage done. Americans just want a level playing field instead of workplace discrimination. The following numbers represent real Americans:

The economy has lost more than 8 million jobs since this recession began

For each rare job opening that does exist, an average of 6 humans vie for that one position with 17.5 million of them being unemployed

1.4 million bankruptcies were filed in 2009 and the number just keeps growing

More than 20 million Americans received unemployment compensation in 2009

These numbers represent either damaged or completely ruined personal credit reports and guess what? The credit reports don’t belong to the millions of people - they largely belong to your friends on Wall Street whose greed destroyed the economy. Do you believe it is fair for Americans to be tossed into a potential catch 22 scenario where bad credit = no job and no job = bad credit with no possible way out?

How can you condone such horrible workplace discrimination by sitting on and stalling passage of HR3149? Please answer to me, your constituent and the American people, instead of the corporate money being funneled to Washington to stall this legislation. I’ll be watching for your actions to support passage of this critical legislation and will be voting in November.

[End Sample Message]

DON'T FORGET TO USE THE CONTACT INFORMATION ABOVE TO PICK UP THE PHONE AND CALL YOUR MEMBERS OF CONGRESS NOW!

Activity Request(s): Thursday

Simply use your media letter(s) that you created on Monday and roll . . .

Washington Week w/Gwen Ifill

http://www.pbs.org/weta/washingtonweek/feedback.html

The Atlantic (see letters to the editor form at bottom of page)

http://www.theatlantic.com/a/submissions.mhtml

Campaign for Americas Future (use feedback form at bottom of page)

http://www.ourfuture.org/contact

The Rick Smith Show

Rick@theRickSmithShow.com

Labor Beat

mail@laborbeat.org

Solidarity Effect

thesolidarityeffect@yahoo.com

Activity Request: Wednesday

Simply use your media letter(s) that you created on Monday and roll . . .

Orlando Sentinel

200-250-word range or shorter are preferred

insight@orlandosentinel.com

Kansas City Star

mpepper@kcstar.com

The Union Edge Talk Radio

http://theunionedge.com/contact

The Source

editorial@thesource.com

The Root

readerfeedback@theroot.com

Activity Requests: Tuesday

Simply use your media letter(s) that you created on Monday and roll . . .

Richmond Times

feedback@timesdispatch.com

letters@timesdispatch.com

NY Daily News

voicers@edit.nydailynews.com

Truthout

http://www.truthout.org/contactus

Reader Supported News (2500 characters max)

http://readersupportednews.org/general-feedback

Activity Requests: Monday

[Note: As always any sample messages, letters, etc. that we provide are just that, “samples.” The samples are just what we’re sending out from this end and you are strongly encouraged to use your own judgment, voice and perspectives. Our prose, tone and approach can always be improved upon and quite frankly a good mix of perspectives is better than following our samples verbatim. We’re not the most reverent and that may or may not be good (we’re just expressing one opinion among well over a 1000 different member opinions). We don’t do messaging for the group (nor do we aspire to) or ever speak for the group, but instead merely facilitate our members’ ability to speak at once for more power and volume. If you’re a “professional communicator” or would like to help with recruiting, research, administration, etc. shoot us a note and we’ll be happy to get you involved. There is no lack of work to be done.]

Media Outreach

1) Create your own version of a short and a long media pitch to use for online and e-mail outlets. [See sample below] Some online forms limit the number of words or characters and we on this end find out those limitations, if any, the same time you do.

2) Remember to save whatever you write somewhere on your computer so you don’t have to recreate the wheel over and over.

3) Simply make media pitching a mindless simple for you repetitive exercise that you can do almost with your eyes closed. While what you say is important, at the end of the day it’s a numbers game. Whatever group can muster the numbers and relentless effort to compel the media to cover their story wins. It’s just that simple! If you burn out and give up - we lose . . . don’t let that happen! Just make this ongoing media pitching effort a paste in your message, fill in the blanks (or e-mail address) and send exercise that you do over and over and over. You should be able to do it while chatting on the phone, waiting for something to download, etc. It’s more about willpower and perseverance than brainpower . . . and every brain needs a break ;-)

As a disclaimer: We on this end may or may not agree with a media outlet’s “orientation” and do NOT endorse any publication we pitch. We’re simply seeking media coverage anywhere we can get it and are receptive to your ideas, so please pass them along.

DO NOT FORGET TO KEEP US POSTED ON ANY AND ALL HR3149 COVERAGE YOU READ OR VIEW!

Media Outlets for Monday as follows:

Denver Post

newsroom@denverpost.com

openforum@denverpost.com

Real Clear Politics

letters@realclearpolitics.com

Counter Punch

counterpunch@counterpunch.org

GritTV

grittv@grittv.org

[Sample Media Pitch Communication – Long Version] When you need something shorter, simply cut it down and edit to fit . . .

As a loyal member of your audience, it’s clear that you cover the big political picture such as the outrageous bonuses of $150 billion being paid out on Wall Street. You also do a great job of reporting the dismal numbers resulting directly from Wall Street’s greed, such as 7.2 million lost jobs and 15.3 million Americans currently unemployed. Why is it then that you’ve given zero attention and coverage whatsoever to the human suffering behind those numbers via workplace discrimination based upon Americans’ personal credit reports? By your silence you’re condoning this horrible workplace discrimination of your fellow Americans.

HR3149: The Equal Employment for All Act that would alleviate this egregious form of discrimination has sat stalled in the House Financial Services Committee since July. It’s obviously being stalled by corporate PACs and their lobbyists, but journalists by oath are supposed to be above being muzzled. Why then can’t we depend on you to follow the corporate money trail and report the truth behind the stalling tactics in Congress? The following links detail the political contributions from just two of the big three credit bureaus alone (not to mention the millions from corporations in general). Apparently in Washington money talks (or muzzles) . . . please help to expose the “corruption” of American democracy.

Equifax: http://www.congress.org/congressorg/bio/fec/?commid=C00143867&page=campaigns&order=TOTAL&cycle=2007-2008

Trans Union: http://www.congress.org/congressorg/bio/fec/?commid=C00313700&page=campaigns&order=TOTAL&cycle=2007-2008

What value do you deliver in reporting the horrible numbers without helping to alleviate the suffering by reporting on a solution? By simply allowing highly qualified Americans to work, instead of locking them out of the workforce via unfair discrimination, you’ll take millions off the current rolls of the unemployed overnight. That saves the taxpayers money, reduces the ever burgeoning Federal deficit and corrects an absolutely horrible WRONG!

With this common sense solution as a backdrop, why is HR3149 not part of the so called “jobs bill” now being debated in the Senate (that will cost billions more in tax dollars)? Why is it that when a jobs solution is absolutely FREE to the taxpayer it gets no coverage? Is it only a good “jobs idea” when Congress can use a bill to enrich more of their friends somehow at taxpayer expense?

It’s jobs and the economy that “the people” care about first and foremost. The anger at Wall Street is about their greed destroying the economy and the personal credit reports of millions of Americans - while they collect billions of dollars in bonuses. It’s WRONG! I’m confident that since 90 percent of your audience is just like me, they demand that you expose the money trail behind the stalling of HR3149. They also demand that you provide coverage of HR3149 so the people can decide on passage instead of lobbyists and corporate PACs. That’s called “democracy by the people.” Passage of HR3149 is paramount to our nation’s economic recovery and demands your attention. Please answer to the demands of your audience by helping to expose the money trail and those responsible for the stalling of HR3149. Your fellow Americans need YOUR help!

[End Sample Letter for Media Outlets listed above]

Remember to Work All Your Media Outlets Don’t forget to work your local media outlets in your geographic area such as newspapers, blogs, TV stations, etc. and remember to post comments on web boards and articles along with our FB group URL at http://groups.to/h.r.3149/ (or simply type hr3149 into FB search) and our e-mail address hr3149@gmail.com Every effort you make counts to grow our voice via our group and to expose HR3149 to the American public. Once they know about HR319 “the people” will get it passed.

The 60 Second Survey

We’re ONLY seeking the true REALITY within our membership so DO NOT exaggerate anything or tell us what you think we want to hear. We cannot fix anything or make accurate projections going forward without your complete honesty. Just tell us the truth and we promise that no matter how you answer you will not get tossed from our membership ;-) We know for instance that X percent of members are just serial group joiners who simply hit delete when they receive one of our group messages. We’re not prying or spying on you, we just need to know what size engine and how much “horsepower” we actually have under our HR3149 membership hood at present so we can plan ahead. Every war effort takes planning and ours if no different . . .

Click here to take survey

Survey How To:

[Respond ONLY ONCE to the survey out of respect for the group and your fellow members. We operate on the “honor system” so PLEASE be honorable. Sorry to even have to mention this!]

Simply reply to this message and just give us the question # and your answer beside the number. When you finish it will look something like this:
1) Y
2) N
3) 50
4) 25
5) 8
6) N
7) Iowa
8) Bla, bla, bla . . .
9) Bla, bla bla . . .

Survey Questions

1) Our present method of rolling out our Activity Requests on Sunday evening for the entire week is working fine and is effective for YOU? “Y” or “N”

2) If you answered “No” to question No. 1 above, would you prefer that we issue them the evening before one day at a time? “Y” or “N” (there are no other alternatives and we can only go one way or the other – majority rules and only an absolutely overwhelming “Y” response to this question will bring about a change to our current method)

3) In general, is the amount of time used and expected for each day’s Activity Requests reasonable (it should be 30 minutes or so max)? “Y” or “N”

4) Thus far, what percentage of Activity Requests have you participated in? 100%, 75+%, 50+%, 25+% or None

5) Just give us a good accurate guess, do not inflate, approximately how many new members do you think you have brought in since joining? (a number) or simply give us a number representing 30% of how many you think you’ve invited.

6) Outside of inviting some or all of your existing FB friends, have you done any recruiting outside of that circle, “Y” or “N” (“Y” means that YOU HAVE used one or more of the suggested methods you received in your new member ROAR kit such as “recruiting at-large” or some other method)

7) What state do you live in?

Optional Questions:

8) While reaching our 1000 member milestone is great and we’re NOT the only group working on passage of HR3149, our power is in our numbers. We simply must find ways to grow much larger more quickly than what we’ve demonstrated to date. We want membership numbers large enough to shut anyone down that dares to stand in our way and 1000 is simply not large enough to achieve that goal. We know beyond any doubt that overwhelming support exists and at least 30 percent of everyone contacted via FB will join our group, but we’re simply not reaching them fast enough. If you have ideas on how to achieve that goal, please pass them along (we’re all ears):

9) General Comments, Questions and Suggestions:

Notes: Since we don’t speak for the group or attempt to do messaging for the group, but instead simply provide a conduit to speak at once for more volume - we won’t be doing surveying or polling our membership very often. This is probably one of the few chances you’ll have to give us feedback, so please use it. We’re hopefully on the verge of a numbers explosion and that will preclude interaction on an individual basis, because we just don’t have the “manpower” and staffing on this end to accommodate a lot of individual interaction. We’re focused outside of our tent and getting the job done as quickly as possible, through any “legal” means possible.

Why We Need a Membership Survey

FB allows no measurement, no tracking, etc. and therefore we must take a survey (a one time picture) in order to measure what we’re doing correctly and incorrectly in communicating with you and to measure what force and power we’re actually delivering via our membership. In other words we’re trying to determine on average how many actual “boots we have on the ground” engaged in live combat (a.k.a. “The A Team”). We’re also trying project exponential growth of the group for every new member we bring in, etc. As hard as it is to fathom, some people actually believe that merely joining some group on FB will make something happen - without any further effort whatsoever (we just need to know many members we have that think like that). We’ll tabulate, project, extrapolate, etc. (even get a little scientific) in order to measure our present and future force as we grow. This one time survey will enable us on this end to deliver greater effectiveness and power for YOU and our entire group going forward. Thanks in advance for your assistance!