This is weird, but I thought I’d pass it along.
I hadn’t gotten around to making calls until today due to the press of the upcoming primary. Between 11 and 11:30 Pacific Time, I reached most of the targeted Senators in person, and left messages at most of the others. It was the standard spiel: (1) you should require truth for reconciliation — the question of what punishment the telecoms had earned was separate from the question of whether they had committed crimes, but we’ll never find out what crimes they committed if we pass this amnesty; (2) it damages our system to let those with great lobbying resources get away with having committed crimes with impunity; (3) the grassroots are really, really upset about this issue and it isn’t going away.
In most cases, I spoke to a young man or woman, mostly polite, sometimes diffident. Having suffered through my speech, without fail they all politely thanked me and promised “I’ll pass that along to the Senator.” (Tim Johnson’s guy also accepted my good wishes and told me he’s doing well.) I was at most a tick mark on one side of a ledger for them, if they followed through on that promise at all, but one call was a little different.