[Peace-discuss] [Peace] Tomorrow I'll ask Carol Ammons to oppose the Saudi arms deal

[Carl G. Estabrook]

She didn’t vote against it, as she would have, had the subject been South African apartheid.

Has she often differed with the Democratic leadership?

—CGE


> On Jun 3, 2017, at 8:06 PM, David Johnson <davidjohnson1451 at comcast.net> wrote:
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> Carol was one of only two State Reps who abstained from voting for the anti BDS bill, despite aggressive coercion from Madigan and lobbyists from the Israeli consulate for all State Reps and Senators to vote for it.
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> David J.
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> From: Peace [mailto:peace-bounces at lists.chambana.net] On Behalf Of Carl G. Estabrook via Peace
> Sent: Saturday, June 03, 2017 6:18 PM
> To: Robert Naiman
> Cc: peace
> Subject: Re: [Peace] Tomorrow I'll ask Carol Ammons to oppose the Saudi arms deal
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> She was unwilling to oppose Illinois’ support for Israeli apartheid. 
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>> On Jun 3, 2017, at 2:56 PM, Robert Naiman via Peace <peace at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
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>> Tomorrow afternoon this event is happening in Champaign:
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>> IL - 13 Listening Session: Champaign-Urbana
>> Public · Hosted by Carol Ammons
>> https://www.facebook.com/events/1855909114660297/
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>> Yesterday I asked Rodney Davis to oppose Trump's Saudi arms deal. I presented the IL-13 signers on our petition, and asked him to cosponsor the bipartisan Amash-Pocan resolution against the Saudi arms deal. Rodney Davis said he would speak with Amash and the other Republican sponsors and get back to me. 
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>> Now Carol is asking: "What do you want your Representative in Congress to do?" I figure that's an easy question for me to answer. I want my Representative in Congress to oppose the Saudi arms deal. 
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>> So, I figure, why not take Carol the same petition I took Rodney, and make the same ask? 
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>> I figure: if Carol opposes the Saudi arms deal and challenges Rodney to do the same, it's win-win. Either Rodney agrees, in which case I win, or Rodney doesn't agree, in which case it's a public issue and the News-Gazette has to report on it and Rodney gets in trouble, in which case I also win. 
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>> Is it plausible that Rodney, feeling a little heat, would agree to co-sponsor the Amash resolution? 
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>> Last September, then-Illinois Senator Mark Kirk was one of only four Senate Republicans to vote against the Saudi tank deal. The other 23 no votes were Democrats. Mark Kirk had not previously been known as a critic of Saudi Arabia or its "particularly aggressive" war in Yemen, as the Vatican puts it. 
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>> What made Mark Kirk flip? Tammy Duckworth was breathing down his neck, putting out a press release every time he didn't say "excuse me" after burping.
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>> Could we do that to Rodney Davis? Could we flip him with some pressure? If not, why not? 
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>> I'll print out the petitions again around noon tomorrow. So there's still time to sign. 
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>> Sign the petition: Congress: Vote NO on Trump's Saudi Arms Deal
>> https://petitions.moveon.org/sign/congress-vote-no-on-trumps?r_by=1135580
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>> Robert Naiman
>> Policy Director
>> Just Foreign Policy
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