<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">I called both numbers today. Boehner's phone was busy enough that I was forced to leave a message (the operator would not pick up and the system eventua<VAR id=yui-ie-cursor></VAR>lly transferred me to voicemail.) Majority Leader Eric Cantor's aide answered the phone after putting me on hold. I told both reps </SPAN></div>
<div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">1) The message about SOPA listed below</SPAN></div>
<div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">2) The payroll tax cut is a Trojan Horse designed to permanently cut funding for Social Security, by making the situation such that Republicans will be crying "No New Taxes" as soon as any serious effort is made to raise the payroll tax back to its normal level. (Mainstream news reports have completely butchered the Republican position on this. They are opposed to the 2 month extension passed by the Senate BECAUSE they want a 1 year extension instead.) So please get rid of the payroll tax cut.</SPAN></div>
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<div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">John Thielking </SPAN></div>
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<DIV><SPAN>Here is some more info on SOPA that contradicts what little I know. Better to call the Reps listed below and be safe rather than sorry.</SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV>John,</DIV>
<DIV>Some annoying news: As was widely reported last Friday, all indications were that the House Judiciary Committee would delay its vote on SOPA for a few weeks. Now it looks like they might vote this week, if Congress stays in session:</DIV>
<DIV style="PADDING-LEFT: 60px">PCMAG: "SOPA vote might happen this week after all"</DIV>
<DIV style="PADDING-LEFT: 60px">ACTIVIST POST: "Congress tries to pull a fast one"</DIV>
<DIV><B>You've all been amazing as we've worked to spread word about SOPA, convinced more and more lawmakers to oppose it, and dragged out the hearing for a week -- that's pretty much unheard of.</B></DIV>
<DIV>But we need to ask you to pick up the phone once more:</DIV>
<DIV style="RIGHT: auto">Will you call Speaker of the House John Boehner and Majority Leader Eric Cantor and ask them to reign in Judiciary Chairman Lamar Smith? </DIV>
<DIV style="PADDING-LEFT: 60px">Speaker John Boehner: (202) 225-6205</DIV>
<DIV style="PADDING-LEFT: 60px">Majority Leader Eric Cantor: (202) 225-2815</DIV>
<DIV><SPAN style="TEXT-DECORATION: underline">Please be polite, but firm. You can work off of this script:</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV style="PADDING-LEFT: 30px">I'm calling because Judiciary Chairman Lamar Smith is pushing the Stop Online Piracy Act even though it will kill jobs, undermine cybersecurity, stifle free speech, and give comfort to totalitarian regimes that want to censor the Internet. And they're doing it all to prop up a few Hollywood bigwigs.</DIV>
<DIV style="PADDING-LEFT: 30px">His hearings are turning into a circus that's embarrassing for our country and for the House of Representatives. Please ask him to back down and hold real hearings on this legislation before rushing it through his committee.</DIV>
<DIV>These powerful leaders control what will be voted on by the full House, and we need to put them on notice.</DIV>
<DIV><B>And you can use these links to ask your friends to join the effort and email and call their lawmakers about the Internet censorship bills, or just ask them to visit <A href="http://stopcensorship.org/" rel=nofollow target=_blank>StopCensorship.org</A>.</B></DIV>
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