'Send Congress a pink slip'

campaign exceeding wildest expectations

Total jumps to 7 million amid media attention

WASHINGTON – With more members of Congress extolling it and the news media reporting on it, the "Send Congress a Pink Slip" campaign experienced its best 72 hours period ever with over one million notices sent, putting the total number of 'pink slips' to more than 7 MILLION.

On Tuesday, four members of the House of Representatives hailed the program in a press conference, saying it is getting the attention of elected officials on both sides of the aisle.

The notices, if stacked vertically, would be more than four times as tall as the Washington Monument and almost as tall as the Burj Dubai, a super skyscraper under construction that will stand 2,684 feet tall. Laid out end-to-end, they would stretch 939 miles – from Washington, D.C., to Kansas City, Kansas.

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"It's an amazing feat, to get that many slips to Congress," Rep. Steven King, R-Iowa, one of the four members at the press conference, told WND. "If you look through them, you can index each one back to an individual. That's powerful. There is a person behind each one of the slips."

The number of "pink slips" is staggering, because they weren't from people who were answering a telephone poll and participating in a survey, he noted.

Each of the participants, he said, "wrote a check to send a message."

King was joined at the press conference by Reps. Michelle Bachmann, R-Minn., Trent Franks, R-Ariz., and Louis Gohmert, R-Texas.

Bachmann cheered the program on, saying she agrees with the campaign and that it is having a major impact on her colleagues. She said she was surprised that so many pink slips were generated even though most Americans had never heard of the program.

She said it's clear the message – delivered through a stack of "pink slips" now standing approximately five-feet high in congressional offices – is getting through.

In addition, Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., was interviewed about the campaign by Fox News Channel's Greta Van Susteren.

"This is putting everyone on notice," he said. "And I think this is what the American people have been doing for months now, saying if you keep spending and borrowing, you're going to get fired."

And for the first time, CNN and other news outlets covered the unprecedented campaign that has generated a total of more than 5.5 million pink slips to members of the House and Senate.

The "Send Congress a Pink Slip" campaign has been coordinated by Joseph Farah, founder and CEO of WND. "Our goal from the beginning was to generate 5 million of these notices," said Farah. "But it now appears we might just be getting started. Now I think maybe 10 million might be possible."

"One of the questions I get from colleagues is why a news agency would involve itself in a political advocacy campaign like the 'pink slips' effort. The answer is that I am an American first and a newsman second. I don't want to see the foundations that made this country great and that made the notion of a free press possible destroyed. And that's why we got behind this campaign," he said.

The program already has been the talk of Congress, albeit not always on the floor of the House or Senate.

"They're talking about it, but they're only talking about it behind closed doors and in the elevators as they go up and down and in very whispered tones," Rep. Tom Price, R-Ga., has said. "Because, what you hear are people saying, 'How many of those did you get or how many people came to your office today? And what are you going to do and how are you going to vote on this?'"

Sen. DeMint told Porter on a recent radio show that some of the bills now pending in Congress already would have been law had it not been for the "pink slips" appearing in inboxes daily.

The "pink slip" each official will get is a reminder that they work for the taxpayers. Each is individually printed with the sender's contact information under the closing salutation "Signed, Your Employer:"

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The warning lists four key issues that are deemed unacceptable to program participants:

• government health care

• cap and trade

• "hate crimes"

• any more spending

"If you vote for any of these, your real pink slip will be issued in the next election," it warns.

"We encourage citizens to take individual actions," said Farah. "But when we act as a group, it's more cost-effective and the results more dramatic. Just try Fed Exing members of Congress yourself and see what it costs. We have learned from past experience that Fed Ex actually ensures delivery to members. What they do with them at that point is their choice."

The cost of each message translates to six cents per message – individually addressed for both the recipient and the sender and shipped by Fed Ex.

The "Send Congress a Pink Slip" program permits participants to Fed Ex 535 individually addressed pink slips to each member of Congress, each one with the name and address of the sender for just $29.95.

"I believe this campaign, already tremendously successful beyond my wildest expectations, can have a real impact on politicians whose first priority is getting re-elected," says Farah. "I think this might be our last chance to give congressional Democrats something to think about before they destroy the country. It might be our last, best hope of stopping the madness."

Farah and Porter say the campaign will continue indefinitely.

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