BRIBERY IS IN THE CONSTITUTION
ACTION ONE: CALL YOUR SENATORS
SAMPLE SCRIPT FOR WYDEN AND MERKLEY:
My name is [–] and I’m a constituent from [city], Oregon [zip code]. I am calling because…
I strongly support the impeachment process and want to make it clear I expect Congress to impeach and remove Trump. I thank the Senator for supporting the impeachment process and ask him to publicly call for everyone Ambassador Sondland mentioned to be subpoenaed to testify.
CALL SENATOR MERKLEY
CALL SENATOR WYDEN
ACTION TWO: CALL YOUR HOUSE REPS
Not sure who your U.S. Representative is? Find out here.
SAMPLE SCRIPTS FOR REPRESENTATIVES:
My name is [–] and I’m a constituent from [city], Oregon [zip code]. I am calling because…
For all but Walden: I strongly support the impeachment process and want to make it clear I expect Congress to impeach and remove Trump. I thank the Representative for supporting the impeachment process and ask him/her to publicly call for everyone Ambassador Sondland mentioned to be subpoenaed to testify.
For Walden: I strongly support the impeachment process and want to make it clear I expect Congress to impeach and remove Trump. I am very disappointed the Representative voted against the impeachment process. I ask him to put country over party and publicly call for everyone Ambassador Sondland mentioned to be subpoenaed to testify.
CALL SUZANNE BONAMICI (OR-01)
CALL GREG WALDEN (OR-02)
CALL BLUMENAUER (OR-03)
CALL PETER DEFAZIO (OR-04)
CALL KURT SCHRADER (OR-05)
ACTION THREE: HELP REGISTER VOTERS
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BACKGROUND:
“We all understood that if we refused to work with Mr. Giuliani, we would lose an important opportunity to cement relations between the United States and Ukraine. So we followed the President’s orders.”
“Was there a ‘quid pro quo?’ As I testified previously, with regard to the requested White House call and White House meeting, the answer is yes.”
“Everyone was in the loop. It was no secret.”
Yesterday Ambassador Gordon Sondland laid out the above in his opening statement, painting a clear picture – President Trump marshalled his administration to bribe the President of Ukraine by withholding critical meetings/US aid unless Ukraine announced investigations of Trump’s political rivals.
We were able to hear this testimony because of the persistent pressure that progressive resistance groups placed on Congress and the Trump Administration. No matter with what group you took your actions – thank you for working to save our democracy.
And we must keep the pressure up. Congress must bring everyone Sondland mentioned in for testimony. And in the end Congress must impeach and remove Trump.
As Lt. Col. Vidman bravely stated this week – “this is America . . And here right matters.”
SOURCES:
Ambassador Sondland’s opening statement:https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/6554291/Opening-Statement-of-Ambassador-Gordon-D.pdf
Highlights of Sondland’s testimony https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/11/20/takeaways-gordon-sondlands-opening-statement/
