March 6, 2011

HB 87: Pro-enforcement Americans win in Georgia – the Illegal Immigration Reform and Enforcement Act of 2011 passes the Georgia House – ACTION NEEDED TO GET THROUGH THE SENATE! Help defeat the ACLU/Chamber of Commerce anti-enforcement coalition… no matter where you live!

Posted by D.A. King at 9:10 pm - Email the author   Print This Post Print This Post  

PRO-ENFORCEMENT AMERICANS WIN IN THE GEORGIA HOUSE! WE MADE OUR VOICES HEARD!

THANK YOU ALL SO VERY MUCH FOR YOUR WORK!

VICTORY IN THE GEORGIA HOUSE ON HB 87! BECAUSE ALL OF YOU TOOK THE TIME TO BE INVOLVED IN OUR GOVERNMENT. WE WIN!

WE THE PEOPLE HAVE A HARD BATTLE AHEAD TO GET HB 87 PASSED OUT OF SENATE COMMITTEES AND THEN THE SENATE ITSELF! (The Mexican government is having a cow! I hear angry Jerry Gonzalez was weeping at the Capitol over the idea of enforcement coming to Georgia)

Special thanks to the many who took the time to come to the Georgia Capitol to speak personally to House members last week on the day of the floor vote in the House. We won by a HUGE margin! (VOTE TALLYS HERE) Thanks to those of you who wore the KICK ME, I AM A CITIZEN!strong> stickers. The message was clear and many legislators and even some reporters commented to me on how effective we were in the entire House campaign.

We are halfway there. The battle continues starting today.

I am very grateful for the opportunity for the 30 minute meeting I had Friday morning with Governor Deal and his staff in his office. The Governor is very interested in HB 87 – but made no commitments. See HERE for his previous commitments during the campaign.

I know some of you are getting tired. Me too. The anti-enforcement coalition is never gong to stop and is sending calls and emails into the Capitol right now to kill HB 87.They had an AMNESTY NOW! rally at the Capitol Thursday. ( It was quite funny to see them howl)

WE MUST NOT SLOW DOWN. YES TO HB 87! KEEP UP THE PRESSURE!

YOU JUST OVERCAME MILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN LOBBYING EFFORTS FROM MANY SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS INCLUDING THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE/ACLU COALITION!

ACTION NEEDED TO PASS HB 87 IN THE GEORGIA SENATE!

FIRST: We must kill the incredibly awful SB 40. To do this we need to call and email the Senate Rules Chairman, Senator Don Balfour. Please deliver your own version of the message below with phone calls and then email. Just leave the message with his assistant when you call…then PLEASE send an email as well!! Also a fax if you are able.

NO TO SB 40! It is a joke of a bill and will not protect jobs in Georgia!

State Senator Don Balfour Chairman, Senate Rules committee

don.balfour@senate.ga.gov
Phone: (404) 656-0095
Fax: (404) 656-6581

Your message:

“Please tell Senator Balfour to hold SB 40 in Rules! SB 40 is poorly written, should never have been allowed out of the Senate Judiciary committee and should never be allowed out of the Rules committee. From many, just one example of why this is true: Amazingly, SB 40 exempts all H2 (H2A and H2B) visa workers from its E-Verify requirement. Federal regulations are clear: E-Verify users must run all newly hired employees through the system and will loose their E-Verify authority if they pick and choose which employees to run through the system. Another? Because there is no penalty for violation of the nonsense E-Verify section, SB 40 is a parody of an enforcement bill. PLEASE LET SB 40 die the silent death it so richly deserves. HB 87 is the right bill to attack illegal immigration in Georgia!”

Then, starting today, we begin the hard work with the Senate Judiciary committee on passing HB 87 out INTACT, so it can then go to Senate Rules, then to the Senate floor for a vote.

YES TO HB 87! YES TO ENFORCEMENT! YES TO E-VERIFY!

Starting today (Monday) we need thousands of calls and emails to the Republican members of the Senate Judiciary committee… tomorrow, we begin to contact the of the Republicans in the Georgia Senate. FORGET ABOUT THE DEMS! They will not vote to save jobs for Georgians – they will try to kill HB 87 hoping another federal amnesty will eventually make the illegals into Democrat voters. (It would)

ACTION NEEDED! PLEASE CALL AND EMAIL EACH OF THE BELOW OFFICES OF MEMBERS OF THE SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE TODAY AND TOMORROW! THIS IS VITAL! PLEASE ALSO SEND A FAX IF YOU ARE ABLE!

“ Please tell the Senator to spare no time in getting HB 87 out of the Judiciary committee without any amendments – the bill is carefully constructed, well vetted and passed the House by a huge margin. Georgians all over the state are depending on your courage to stand up to the Farm Bureau, the ACLU and the Chamber of Commerce! And the Mexican government! WE NEED TO STOP ILLEGAL HIRING TO STOP ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION. NO CHANGES TO HB 87! The whole state is watching! We are part of a conservative coalition that is creating a voters guide on the illegal immigration issue for 2012 WE ARE WATCHING ALL VOTES. No one is above the law and we don’t need illegal aliens to grow onions!”

Senators on the Senate Judiciary Committee in which HB 87 will be heard and voted on to get to the Senate floor:

Senator:

Bill Hamrick
bill.hamrick@senate.ga.gov (Chairman)
Phone: (404) 656-0036
Fax: (404) 651-6767

Charlie Bethel
charlie.bethel@senate.ga.gov
Phone: (404) 656-6436
Fax: (404) 656-6484

Bill Cowsert
bill.cowsert@senate.ga.gov
Phone: (404) 463-1383
Fax: (404) 651-6768

John Crosby
John.Crosby@senate.ga.gov
Phone: (404) 463-5258
Fax: (404) 657-0459

William Ligon
william.ligon@senate.ga.gov
Phone: (404) 656-0045
Fax: (404) 463-2535

Joshua McKoon
jrm2016@yahoo.com
Phone: (404) 463-3931
Fax: (404) 657-3217

Mitch Seabaugh
mail@mitchseabaugh.comPhone: (404) 656-6446
Fax: (404) 651-6768

Jesse Stone
jesse.stone@senate.ga.gov
Phone: (404) 463-1314
Fax: (404) 463-1388


Please see HERE and HERE for more news and info.

Tomorrow, I will be sending out info on how to contact EVERY GOP member of the Georgia Senate.

PLEASE SAVE THIS INFORMATION. PLEASE PASS IT ON TO YOUR LISTS!