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

[Robert Naiman]

I did not get called on during the questions. Niloofar did get called on,
and asked a related question if not quite so specific. Carol answered
Niloofar's question by criticizing U.S. support for the Saudi war in Yemen.

I delivered our petition after the event to Carol's staffer Michelle. I
also sent Michelle my letter in the News-Gazette yesterday:

Saudi arms deal must be blocked
http://www.news-gazette.com/opinion/letters-editor/2017-06-05/saudi-arms-deal-must-be-blocked.html

How about your man David Gill? Has he put out any statement on this? Unlike
Carol, your man David Gill is already a declared candidate for the seat.
Seems like something he should weigh in on.

Here is a draft statement you could send him:

Congress: Vote NO on Trump's Saudi Arms Deal
https://petitions.moveon.org/sign/congress-vote-no-on-trumps?r_by=1135580






Robert Naiman
Policy Director
Just Foreign Policy
www.justforeignpolicy.org
naiman at justforeignpolicy.org
(202) 448-2898 x1

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


On Tue, Jun 6, 2017 at 8:53 AM, C G Estabrook via Peace-discuss <
peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:

> Bob—
>
> What response did you get?
>
> —CGE
> ==================================
> Robert Naiman naiman at justforeignpolicy.org
> Sat Jun 3 19:56:04 UTC 2017
>
> Tomorrow afternoon this event is happening in Champaign:
>
> IL - 13 Listening Session: Champaign-Urbana
> Public · Hosted by Carol Ammons
>
> https://www.facebook.com/events/1855909114660297/
>
>
> Yesterday I asked Rodney Davis to oppose Trump's Saudi arms deal. I
> presented the IL-13 signers on our petition
> <https://petitions.moveon.org/sign/congress-vote-no-on-trumps?r_by=1135580
> >,
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> So, I figure, why not take Carol the same petition I took Rodney, and make
> the same ask?
>
> 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.
>
> Is it plausible that Rodney, feeling a little heat, would agree to
> co-sponsor the Amash resolution?
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> Could we do that to Rodney Davis? Could we flip him with some pressure? If
> not, why not?
>
> I'll print out the petitions again around noon tomorrow. So there's still
> time to sign.
>
> 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
>
>
> ===
>
> Robert Naiman
> Policy Director
> Just Foreign Policy
> www.justforeignpolicy.org
>
> naiman at justforeignpolicy.org
>
> (202) 448-2898 x1
>
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