Very Important Note! The numbers below are JUST from Dodd’s site, they do not count the vast numbers of folks from all the other blogs who were pushing on this. When we DO rise up as activists and bloggers and unite, we DO make a difference. Good Work everyone!
h/t to mcjoan
Some Stats on FISA Activism
posted by Matt Browner-Hamlin, Campaign BloggerI thought you might be interested to read some of the statistics for what people have done through our site to lobby the Senate to stop retroactive immunity.
11,300+ people emailed the Senators (16,000 people visited the page, a 75% follow through rate)…
506,000+ emails were sent to the Senate…
5,700+ comments were submitted through the website (350+ were posted on Twitter) in 7 hours…
135+ people joined the Facebook group since 11am…
340 people reported the phone calls they made to the Senate…
Quite simply, between Chris Dodd’s leadership and your activism, we were able to stop retroactive immunity today. The fight will continue next month, but with support like this I am confident that we can resume this fight and move towards victory.
More mcjoan goodness (one of our best in the blogosphere folks, give her a big hand!)
Psssst! Don ‘t forget, this is not over! They will try to sneak it through somehow, some way…there are potentially HUGE amounts of money involved in lawsuits vs. the Telcoms….Eternal Vigilance!
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girlwoman kicks ass!I hope he gets some support….he is a good candidate, and so is Biden and so are all the other Democrats!
He is so smart…I heard him on Ed Schultz today and he became angry when talking about how the Constitution is being subverted! Righteous Indignation rocks!
that we’ve been all doom and gloom about?
Given how starved we are for anything that resembles a victory, even this momentary pushing back against those who would undermine our civil liberties is delicious and sweet.
Congratulations to Senator Dodd and to all you dirty-rabble-bloggers who helped make this happen.