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11-08-2011, 01:53 AM
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justjohnjustice1988
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Originally Posted by Smooth View Post
Please explain. I am expecting that you will hit me with some sort of Iran-Contra-like information that was hidden but will be revealed. What is it you know about his role that we don't?
Who said I has some kind of "hidden" information?

This is common sense! Party leaders of both parties make sure their members "HOLD" the line and DON'T vote for a bill that would benefit the party in the majority.

Also, the DREAM Act received a majority vote on cloture, so if both party leaders had agreed to move to cloture, then the DREAM Act would have passed by a majority vote. BUT ever since Obama won the white house and Democrats had historic majorities in the House and Senate, the Republicans in the Senate all of a sudden started abusing the filibuster.

We need to change our strategy and make it personal. We need to travel to DC and talk to these Senators, whether they meet us or not. We need to tell them our story and show them that we deserve an opportunity to be part of this country.

We could win the House again, but the Senate will always be our road block. We need a new way to get to 60 votes.

We need to use websites like this one to organize, make state leaders of the DREAM Act movement. We need to organize!!!

I want to start this movement once I get a car. Right now I am very limited, but once I have my car, I want to start doing protests and showing myself out there. I don't care what may happen to me because if ALL dreamies united across the country, we would change minds and spread the message of the DREAM Act which is fairness and commonsense legislation that will help this country.

We also need to separate ourselves from the broader immigration debate. We need to do this in order to show people that the DREAM Act is about fairness and not about amnesty.

God, I wish we would be more active in the "Taking Action" forum than the "News" forum. We also need to use Facebook and other websites to stay connected.

Can I get an amen?
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