Whoops forgot to add he is going to morgantown, WV.

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Hello everyone, I am new to this blog and am thankful for the invite and support. My husband self surenders on thursday the 2nd. My name is Cindy Keys and my husband John has been emailing with a couple of people from here. We have 2 kids 8 and 6. He was sentenced to 20 months. I am feeling scared and overwhelmed about all that is happening. Thanks.

HR 1529 update

For those of you who have not yet joined our Group at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/support_of_hr1529/, I thought that you might be interested in what is going on and what we are up against.
One of our group, Jaime Woodard of We Deserve Our Lives Back, made a visit to Congressman Rangel’s New York office Monday, 06-22. Jaime reported that he pretty much got a cold shoulder/canned response from the person he talked with. He was informed that the person he needed to see was not available. Not to be deterred, Jaime made a second visit to the Congressman’s office yesterday.
The following is the result of that visit.
I went back to Rangel’s office in Harlem. (Tues 06-24) The welcome was warmer today from the receptionist but again the person I needed to speak to was not there. I gave her a copy of our petition signers and talked about the bill 's failure to pass and that no one was lobbying for it. I must say that the young lady, Renee Jones, that I spoke with at 163 West 125th Street, picked right up on the fact that the bill had no co-sponsors this time around. She assured me that someone would get back to me and I assured her that the more than 1000 people who have signed our petitions are ready to make this bill law. I also went to the National Action Network, which is in Harlem also. My welcome was a lot warmer I was allowed to leave information and spoke to the manager who said that Rev.Al Sharpton, President of the Network, was also working on getting the bill passed. I will give someone until Friday to respond then I'm going back to NY to do it again. Now that I know where their offices are I can and will frequent them.
Thanks to Jaime for taking this on. If there are any of you that are close enough to visit Congressman Rangel’s office I am sure Jaime would appreciate the support. A letter or e-mail or two to Rev. Sharpton offering encouragement couldn’t hurt either. http://www.nationalactionnetwork.net/
We are over 300 strong now on this petition alone and there are others that share our mission to pass this bill. Together we can win.
Thanks to all,
Thomas K

The next couple of weeks

Please keep Ed and Leslie in you prayers as he reports on Thursday. Have the guys keep their eyes open for him so we can let her know he is okay. Keep D. R. and his family in your prayers as he will be sentanced on the 6th. If there is anything else coming up that I have missed please feel free to add it.

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I have noticed that the Promo code for Western Union Doo66 is no longer working. Does anyone have a new one? Thanks!

Kim R.

HR1529 update

I just wanted to let you guys know what has been going on. Apparently, Rep. Rangel has not done his part. It appears that he did not send out requests to his fellow representatives asking for their support or sponsorship of this bill. It also appears that he did not follow protocol in allowing the chair of the judicaiary committee to sponsor or co-sponsor a bill that was to go before that committee. The impression is that this bill has been written and introduced so that in future campaigns it can be said that he tried. The support group is asking that we expose this non-action on the part of Rep Rangel. They are working on some press releases, videos, letter writing campaigns, ect. The time for action is NOW! Folowing are the members of judiciary committee and thier fax numbers. This legislation is now in their hands. Please fax them exposing this injustice and supporting HR1529.

Contact every member (every day) of the House Judiciary Committee : John Conyers 202-225-5126, fax: 202-225-0072* Tammy Baldwin 202-225-2906, fax: 202-225-6942* Howard Berman 202-225-4695, fax: 202-225-3196 * Rick Boucher fax: 202-225-0442* Jason Chaffetz fax: 202-225-5629 * Howard Coble fax: 202-225-8611* Steve Cohen fax: 202-225-5663* Bill Delahunt fax: 202-225-5658 * Charles Gonzalez, fax: 202-225-1915* Luis Gutierrez, fax: 202-225-7810* Henry "Hank" Johnson fax: 202-226-0691* Sheila Jackson Lee fax: 202-225-3317* Dan Maffei fax: 202-225-4042* Jerrold Nadler fax: 202-225-6923* Linda Sanchez, fax: 202-226-1012* Adam B. Schiff fax: 202-225-5828* Bobby Scott fax:202-225-8354* F. James Sensenbrenner, Jr. fax: (202) 225-3190* Brad Sherman fax: 202-225-5879 * Debbie Wasserman Schultz fax: 202-226-2052* Maxine Waters fax: 202-225-7854* Melvin L. Watt fax: 202-25-1512* Anthony D. Weiner fax: 202-226-7253

Hey everyone,

Football season is coming up soon. Book your rooms in advance or you may nt get a place to stay. It is hard to get the discounts on rooms during the football season. Just an FYI

Alicia

HR 1529

I want to invite you to join in and help move this bill forward. The new site can be found by going to Yahoo, click on groups and type in Support of HR1529 or you may use this link http://groups.yahoo.com/group/support_of_hr1529/ Once you reach the site simply click on the “Join This Group” button and follow the instructions. Once you sign up you will be accepted as a member of the group.

We plan for this site to be a place to develop and implement action items such as a “National Call In Day”,” Rally’s”, “Videos” “Newspaper Articles” and more. Our intent is to be completely dedicated to this one issue rather than being a general discussion group. There are plenty of those around and most of us participate in and will continue to participate those such as Washington Watch, PTO and Change.Org which are all excellent sites, to name a few. We will continue full support of our petitions on the “We Deserve Our Lives Back”, change.org, and, the newest one at, Petition2Congress web sites. If you have not signed them please do so.

Prayers answered...

Okay you all..thank you so much for all the well wishing and thoughts....This weekend...Greg's youngest daughter got to see him for the first time in over a year...and the mother came with us....The mother thanked me for making it a great visit for them both and told me that she trusted me with Zoe!! Yippee!!!!!!!

Thank you all!!! Hugs and love....