CALL TO ACTION: Send Scott McInnis a Fruitcake

[Walt Starr]

Let him know that you agree with Pete Stark!

Addresses at this site including his DC office

http://www.house.gov/mcinnis/contact.htm

You can order fruitcakes online. I sent the little fruitcake (5 oz.) from the folowing site. Total cost, $4.95 + $4.00 shipping. It's worth $8.95 to me to tell the wimp I agree with Pete Stark, HE IS A LITTLE FRUITCAKE!:

http://www.sunshinehollow.com/bakery/allitems.htm

[Cha]

1. Thank you! scott should be inundated with "fruitcakes"!

:kick: :-)

[Walt Starr]

2. I've been trying to get this out most of the day

If you know any activist bloggers, please pass this information along.

I would love to see a news story like this:

It has been that when Congressmen were receiving strange packages, there was concern about terrorism. Not so in this case. It started as a trickle. In the first days five or six would arrive, then ten or twelve. Now it is a virtual flood.

Yes, literally hundreds of fruitcakes have been pouring into the offices of the Honorable Scott McInnis, who if you will recall, is the Congressman whom Representative Pete Stark called a fruitcake, not once, not twice, but three times in a committee meeting.

Apparently, a lot of people across the country agree with Mr. Stark...

[nadinbrzezinski]

5. I have forwarded it to my lists

and I might add it to the blogg

[Cha]

6. Okay! I will pass this on!

:thumbsup:

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. Done

if he gets even ten baskets he will be shocked...

Here is the little barb I included

Gift Recipient Message 1 $0.00 $0.00
Gift Recipient Message: Dear Sir, that display on the Floor of the House was
un-American and I may add a little fruity. Hence enjoy
the fruitcake.

[Cha]

4. Good Point, Nadine!!

You go Girl!!

[sonias]

7. Great idea - the food industry should pick up the idea

Pretzels for the pretzel boy
fruitcake for the fruity
waffles for the waffely

Recently I read in our local rag in Austin, TX that my state Senator (jeff wentworth) a repuke that represents a sizable swath of Austin started receiving waffles in his mail (supposedly from S. Austin Democrats). This was due to his switch back and forth on the Congressional redistricting issue that still loomes over us in Texas.

This could spur a whole new industry in political activism. Why just write your Congressman or Congresswoman or Legislative Representatives a plain letter. Send them some fruit. A real message with substance. Virtual food toss anybody; tomatoes unfortunately spoil easily.

On a related note here's my US Rep. Lloyd Doggett's take on the fracas:
Fracas underscores systematic erosion of democracy
http://www.statesman.com/editorial/content/auto/epaper/editions/saturday/editorial_f381de52c525e14200d9.html
"This is intolerable in a democracy.
Americans who are concerned about us becoming a nation of citizens, who can choose only between saying "me, too" or shutting up, cannot afford to be silent.
No party, no person, has a monopoly on truth. Dissent is not an inconvenience to be tolerated, and it certainly does not warrant calling out the G-men. Dissent is the cornerstone of our democracy. Our country is stronger when we respect and show tolerance for opposing viewpoints."

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This is exactly why Tom DeLay hates Doggett so much. Our man Lloyd tells it like it is. And we love him in Austin.
Go Lloyd Go!!!

Sonia

[nadinbrzezinski]

8. I am laughing so hard it is not even funny

Though I also sent letters to the two on top
of the fruit, Thomas and Hastert and did mention
that they should ask teh fruit cake for some fruit cake.

I also did mention to hastert that little phrase about
letting them eat cake and how far it went in 1789.. quite frankly I expect him to miss the reference.