SAVE Act: Reps Asking For Citizen Calls!

I got this blast e-mail recently about the status of the SAVE Act, which I've blogged about many times before:

After all the phone calls and faxes in last week's surge effort, the hold-out Rep. Bill Sali (R-Idaho) has signed the Discharge Petition to force a House floor vote on the SAVE Act (H.R. 4088).

(Look at the petition list as well as details about the Save Act.)

The freshman was one of only a few Republicans who still had not signed. The states of Idaho, Montana, Nebraska, Wyoming and Delaware (with small delegations) now have no Representative who has NOT signed the Discharge Petition. Congrats to all of you from those states.

It will take 218 signatures to go around Speaker of the House Pelosi (D-Calif.) who thus far has refused to allow a vote unless an amnesty is attached to the bill.

The fact that we are up to 187 signatures is really quite phenomenal. Now, it is mop up time in which we have to fight for every new petition signer.

CONGRESSMEN SAY THEY AREN'T GETTING ENOUGH PRESSURE FROM VOTERS

There are well more than 31 U.S. Representatives who tell our NumbersUSA lobbyists that they would vote for SAVE if it comes to the floor -- but they won't sign the Discharge Petition that would force the vote.

The main reasons these Members of the House aren't signing the petition?

Some Democratic Representatives indicate they really want to sign the petition but they are nervous about how the House's Democratic leadership would respond to their going against the leadership's opposition to passing SAVE and taking jobs away from illegal workers. These Members are asking for a lot more pressure from their constituents so they can tell Speaker Pelosi that they had no choice but sign the petition.

Quite a number of other Democrats say they likely will vote for SAVE if forced to vote but oppose the idea of going around Speaker Pelosi. They say they have no interest in signing the Discharge Petition because they are hearing from so few of their constituents that they want the petition signed.

Some of the remaining Republican Representatives not on the petition are getting much pressure from business lobbyists NOT to sign. They say the only way they would defy the business lobbyists by signing the petition is if they hear from a lot more constituents than they've been hearing from

The part I find encouraging and yet disheartening is that there appear to be a number of Reps who want to sign this bill (and the discharge petition), but fear the ramifications with some of their lobbyist constituencies (and the open-borders Dem leadership).  They are actually asking for their citizens to pressure them so they have a reason to sign it!

While this is surely an act of cowardice on their part, I don't believe it's something that should be ignored.  Call your Reps, and encourage them to do two things:
1. co-sponsor of the SAVE Act
2. sign the discharge petition to force a vote on the floor of the House

These Reps are asking for their constituents to give them an excuse to support this vital reform bill.  Give it to them!

There's my two cents.