"Send your congressman a pink slip"
appears to be working! Even thought the MSM has pretty much ignored it.
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Originally Posted by jfh
Good grief! $29.95. I wonder how many they are getting.
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Pink-slipping Congress wipes out paper supplies
Mills ramping up to make more, all designated for campaign
WASHINGTON – For a second time, the supplies of pink paper have been wiped out across North America by a true grass-roots campaign to send pink slips to members of Congress, warning them against support for the health-care takeover, big spending, hate-crimes legislation and energy taxes.
If stacked, 8 million pink slips would be more than half a mile high.
Add yours to the pile. WND got notification yesterday of the shortage – which already is being resolved – from the printer of pink slips that have been streaming into Capitol Hill by the millions. The latest count was more than 8 million.
"The WND pink slip campaign has wiped out ALL Hammermill pink paper supplies in North America," said a campaign official. "All pink paper resources throughout the country were pooled to ship to our printer for production of pink slips.
"Other than small quantities already in stock at print shops and retail outlets, no other pink paper is available for purchase since it is currently on backorder," the official continued.
"Hammermill's mills are ramping up to manufacture more pink paper, ALL designated for WND."
The campaign, however, had stockpiled enough paper for the most recent deluge of pink slips, and the new manufacturing efforts are expected in time to meet the next surge, officials confirmed.
"We'll go outside the U.S., if necessary," to get enough supplies, said Joseph Farah, founder and CEO of WND.
Farah, who organized the campaign with WND columnist Janet Porter, says the campaign has been picking up since a half-dozen members of Congress held a press conference recently to announce their support of the effort – an event that was covered widely by television and print reporters.
Reps. Trent Franks, R-Ariz., Steve King, R-Iowa, Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., and Louis Gohmert, R-Texas, held a press conference with Farah and Porter outside the Capitol. The lawmakers praised the program and said it is producing results – changing the minds of some members who were backing House and Senate leadership initiatives and bolstering the conviction of those who oppose them.
Rep. Trent Franks, R-Ariz at Tuesday's press conference "It's an amazing feat, to get that many slips to Congress," Rep. Steven King, R-Iowa, told WND. "If you look through them, you can index each one back to an individual. That's powerful. There is a person behind each one of the slips."
In addition, Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C.,
was interviewed about the campaign by Fox News Channel's Greta Van Susteren.
"This is putting everyone on notice," he said. "And I think this is what the American people have been doing for months now, saying if you keep spending and borrowing, you're going to get fired."
The most recent paper shortage was the second occurrence. In the first week of the campaign, paper suppliers reported the campaign had completely tapped the nation's reserves of 8.5 x 11 inch pink paper. As the last full pallet of pink paper was delivered to the printer, new supplies had to be ordered and manufactured.
The "
Send Congress a Pink Slip" campaign ensures that a brief but poignant message will be delivered by Fed Ex to all 535 members of the House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate – all for a remarkably low price based on economies of scale.
U.S. Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, with WND founder Joseph Farah, right The "
Send Congress a Pink Slip" campaign has been coordinated by Joseph Farah, founder and CEO of WND. "Our goal from the beginning was to generate 5 million of these notices," said Farah. "But it now appears we might just be getting started."
"One of the questions I get from colleagues is why a news agency would involve itself in a political advocacy campaign like the 'pink slips' effort. The answer is that I am an American first and a newsman second. I don't want to see the foundations that made this country great and that made the notion of a free press possible destroyed. And that's why we got behind this campaign," he said.
The program already has been the talk of Congress, albeit not always on the floor of the House or Senate.
"They're talking about it, but they're only talking about it behind closed doors and in the elevators as they go up and down and in very whispered tones," Rep. Tom Price, R-Ga., has said. "Because, what you hear are people saying, 'How many of those did you get or how many people came to your office today? And what are you going to do and how are you going to vote on this?'"
Sen. DeMint told Porter on a recent radio show that some of the bills now pending in Congress already would have been law had it not been for the "pink slips" appearing in inboxes daily.
The "pink slip" each official will get is a reminder that they work for the taxpayers. Each is individually printed with the sender's contact information under the closing salutation "Signed, Your Employer:"
THE TRUTH ABOUT THE HEALTHCARE BILLS
They obviously know that most people view the current health care system as broken and are demanding a fix. But a real fix might hurt them financially. So they come up with a fix that is more agreeable to them and in the long run could prove to be very profitable, particularly if everyone is forced to buy insurance. 
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