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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'll take Pennsylvania & Nevada!
We will make as many calls as we can & I have also forwarded to my friends & family (I have a HUGE supportive family & we do everything for one another!).
Thanks to whomever posted this wonderful info![/quote]

This made me smile. So glad your friends and family are on board too![/quote]

Thanks... I'm glad I could put a smile on your face.  :) 
And I meant it, we've had 22 friends and family members who live in Pennsylvania & Nevada call repeatedly over the past 2 days.
Some had to (gladly) wait on hold for 5 - 10 minutes & Pennsylvanias mailbox was primarily full, but my sister in law used her sneaky super spy google skills & found out who Toomey interns were & she had us start calling them instead of him directly (that worked for about 30 minutes & then we were told we had to call him, but we got in about 20 calls in that time).
We've had to leave more voicemails than spoke to actual people, but if we're talking about rocking it old school, my grandparents had everyone in their senior assisted living facility right letters to Senator Toomey & my grandfather even hand delivered them himself to his office.

So, we'll see on a Monday if we've made a difference, good luck to all of us!  (((( hugs))))

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LOVE this!!! Thank you to your friends and family and to all the awesome seniors at assisted living. 
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They were happy to do it!  Like I said, we are a very tight little tribe & when one of us needs help, everyone pitches in. :)

I think it's because I'm first generation American & when my family came here, they had nobody really but themselves to lean on. 
Although my dad wasn't born here (born in Romania, although Italian in heritage) he has THE most American pride of anyone I've ever known in my life (and I worked for the government, lol!).  
When he had his naturalization ceremony at the age of 15, they gave him an American flag pin to wear on his lapel, do you know he wore that same pin on every single shirt he put on for 3 years straight.
The only reason he took it off was because he was told to & that was on his dream day, the day when he was old enough to enlist in the Air Force.
He was so excited to give back to this "WONdaFULL country", he was waiting outside the enlistment office at 5am the day he turned 18.  
After he retired, he went back to wearing that same pin every day again until the paint had completely wore off of it & we got him a brand new one & then another one after that (come to think of it, he probably needs a new one now... he just turned 75!).

So, when it comes to defending this country & doing things the "Ahm-er-I-can way" (like call our senators) my family is happy to do their parts as American citizens, because as they always say "America has been more of a home to them than their birth country ever was" (we're Romanian/Italian Jews & my family left Romania for France during the Nazi regime (which wasn't much better).

They ONLY consider themselves Americans... period.  
So when someone will hear my grandfathers thick Italian accent or my grandmothers eastern European accent & they ask them "oh, what nationality are you?"  They always say "American".  :)

PS. the seniors were excited to have something to do, this got their juices flowing & they likened it to a protest from back in the day... they were PUMPED, lol.
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Such a sweet story and what a great support system you have! My family originally came here fleeing the Nazis too and they have never identified as anything but American since their home countries didn't want them. That's why the Syrian refuge stuff gets me so upset. These people are fleeing violence and would probably be such grateful contributing members of society. They are vetted so much that the chances of any being terrorists is likley a tiny fraction of a percent.  My grandparents and great-grandparents, etc some of whom were teachers are rolling over in the graves right now over DeVos and Sessions (and others).

It gives me hope that across America people are calling and demanding to be heard by their Senators.
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