Congressional phones jammed by calls for Trump conflict-of-interrst investigation

[Sunny05]

Source: Washington Post

If you’re trying to call the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, you might find yourself on hold for .?.?. the afternoon.

The committee’s phones became jammed most of Friday after a Facebook post calling for an investigation into President-elect Donald Trump’s finances started to go viral. The message urged readers to call the panel to “support the call for a bipartisan review of Trump’s financials and apparent conflicts of interest” after Trump’s daughter and son-in-law joined his private meeting Thursday night at Trump Tower with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.

“This is a state meeting and they had no security clearance .?.?. and she is supposed to be running his businesses during his presidential term,” the post states, referring to Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump. “Can you spell yyyuuuge conflict of interest?”

The Abe meeting was Trump’s first in-person conversation with a foreign leader since he won the election last week. “It was a pleasure to have Prime Minister Shinzo Abe stop by my home and begin a great friendship,” Trump posted on Instagram with a photo.


Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2016/11/18/congressional-phones-jammed-by-calls-for-trump-conflict-of-interest-investigation/

[LisaM]

1. I did call.

I first researched the committee a little, then I wrote myself a little script so I wouldn't sound as if I was astroturfing.

[Sunny05]

2. Yea!

Good for you! Good for all of us! And the script is a great idea.

[LisaM]

3. It helped me collect my thoughts

and focus on a point I wanted to make that given the circumstances I was surprised it wasn't being done automatically.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

26. I called too... but finally gave up trying to get through.

[MADem]

39. Send a POST CARD.

Not a letter--post cards get delivered, letters go through screening.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

40. Great idea, will do... thanks for the tip!

[WhiteTara]

4. I hope the line is jammed again on Monday or is this

a flash call in scenario.

[rurallib]

5. Phone number if someone wants to call monday

[phone]

I will be sending out some emails.

Reasons: Trump is violating anti-nepotism laws and refusing to put his interests in a blind trust.
We must make sure for the sake of the country that he is not making decisions based on his interests and not what is best for the country.

[Sunny05]

6. Oh, yes! Thank goodness someone included

the phone number! Thanks, rurallib!

[wordpix]

21. Thank you!

[dixiegrrrrl]

23. got an email address we can use?

thanks in advance.....

[Equinox Moon]

7. What is the email address I wonder?

[Sunny05]

8. Good question ..l

am looking for it. In meantime, here is link to entire House Oversight Committee:

https://oversight.house.gov/committee-members/

Their Contact page refers to emailing them, but the link does not go to anything useful (just "content not found" page). We may have to look up individual members and call & email them.


Here is link to page that lists members (as does above) but with links to members' web pages/info.
https://oversight.house.gov/subcommittee/full-committee/

Also, note that these web pages include list of subcommittees -- down toward bottom.

[Equinox Moon]

14. This is great information. Thank you for looking it up!

Your email is a perfect match with the below information (use link or read #11 in this thread)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=1621495

[Sunny05]

16. Thank you! Awesome! / nt

[wordpix]

20. thank you and thank goddess Elijah Cummings is a ranking member

unfortunately, the repukes rule this comm. with their Congress'l majority.

[athena]

11. Calling is much better than e-mailing.

Take a look at this:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/contacting-your-congressional-representative_us_582a0965e4b060adb56f8e95

[yardwork]

12. Responding to mark for later.

[Equinox Moon]

13. Powerful! Thank you

I will pass this on. This information makes perfect sense!
(I did a right click and saved it to pass on.)

[Sunny05]

15. Wow, thank you! / nt

[dixiegrrrrl]

24. Please please put that info in a post of it's own

so we can bookmark it for use and keep it kicked and etc.

Excellent info and needs to be repeated for others who come along.

[athena]

30. Done. Thanks!

Here it is:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10028291889

[dixiegrrrrl]

31. Goody!!!!

I will help keep it kicked.

[blaze]

27. Needs to be it's own OP.

I agree with dixiegrrrl.

Thanks for the post.

[athena]

29. OK, I will make it an OP.

Thanks for the feedback.

[ailsagirl]

9. good Good GOOD

[Hekate]

10. KnR

[2naSalit]

17. Another helpful link

http://votesmart.org/

[Sunny05]

18. Awesome! Thanks. / nt

[wordpix]

19. from the Hillary for Jail people over email security we get Tweeter-in-Chief and

his hand-picked family members with no security clearance, holding his assets in a family "blind" trust.

WTF? Is there ANY oversight of these people?

I'm calling on Mon.

[Sunny05]

22. Thank you for calling! / nt

[dixiegrrrrl]

25. Kick and rec. n/t

[blaze]

28. K&R n/t

[bdamomma]

32. K&R

[MacKasey]

33. It is very simple

Unless he sells his business, he can not be president.

It is nonsense to believe he is going to turn it over to his kids and he will not have a hand in it.

Blind Trust will not work, he is a control freak, he will not give up control, this has all been a game for him.

[Yonnie3]

34. Hello,

Welcome to DU.

I think he can't sell his businesses and get enough to pay off his creditors. If this is the case he is in between a rock and a hard place.

[MacKasey]

36. Thank you

I have been here for years, just a reader.

[Hugin]

35. Welcome.

You may very well be correct!

[Ligyron]

37. Trump will resign before he sells or puts the business in a blind trust.

He seemed rather surprised he won, didn't he?

Maybe that was the plan all along, steal the vote for him but keep him in the dark.

He resigns or is forced to due to numerous conflicts of interest and nepotism laws.

In goes Pence, a much more controllable tool.

[MacKasey]

38. Conflict of interest

The thing is to start the conversation now about the major conflict of interest before electoral college meets

I saw the pantsuit nation started making phone calls on Friday.