{"id":2533,"date":"2013-02-21T12:51:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-21T12:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2013\/02\/21\/grnc-five-phone-calls-for-freedo\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:21:04","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:21:04","slug":"grnc-five-phone-calls-for-freedo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=2533","title":{"rendered":"GRNC &#8211; Five Phone Calls For Freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:9270,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.house.gov\\\/representatives&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.house.gov\\\/representatives&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>\nIn response to news that Obama&#8217;s former campaign organization would be having a &#8220;National Day of Action&#8221; in support of gun control on February 22nd, Grass Roots North Carolina asks that people make five phone calls on February 25th and 26th. They are calling this Five Phone Calls for Freedom.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"tr_bq\"><p>\n<br \/>\n<i><b>On Feb. 25 &amp; 26, make \u2018Five Phone Calls for Freedom\u2019<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Friday, February 22, will witness an unprecedented attack on your rights as Obama mobilizes his army of left-wing activists to push for federal gun bans. \u201cRoll Call\u201d recently ran a piece entitled, \u201cOrganizing for America Plans &#8216;National Day of Action&#8217; to Mobilize Grass Roots on Guns.\u201d It went on to say:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOrganizing for Action is planning its first official mobilization in support of President Barack Obama\u2019s proposals to curtail gun violence. The nonprofit that inherited Obama\u2019s campaign infrastructure and 2 million strong volunteer army will hold a \u2018national day of action\u2019 on Feb. 22, officials said Tuesday.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b>If that doesn\u2019t scare you, it should<\/b><\/p>\n<p>What you are seeing is \u201cBarry the Community Organizer\u201d doing what he does best: Attacking your rights using millions of rabid radicals who will stoop to any level of deceit in order to control you. The grass roots initiative began with his State of the Union address, in which he packed the house with families of victims of mass killings. Next, Obama went on the road to sell his plan at schools in Atlanta and elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>Now MoveOn.org is joining the fray by running TV ads that proclaim, \u201cThe NRA doesn\u2019t speak for me.\u201d In case you didn\u2019t know it, these are the same folks that you brought you \u201cACORN\u201d; MoveOn.org is funded by the left wing \u201cTides Foundation\u201d which is itself funded by none other than freedom-hating billionaire George Soros.<br \/><b><\/p>\n<p>Your voice needed now more than ever<\/b><\/p>\n<p>You have politicians scared. As a founding member of the Coalition to Stop the Gun Ban, which now comprises 38 state and national organizations, GRNC members have been blasting Congress with a coordinated message that we will punish any legislator who supports gun control. So to counter your influence, \u201cBarry\u201d plans to \u201cout-grassroots\u201d you. Will you let him?<\/p>\n<p><b>IMMEDIATE ACTION REQUIRED!<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Make \u2018Five Phone Calls for Freedom\u2019<\/b><\/p>\n<p>To fight back against this left wing attack, we are asking millions of Second Amendment supporters, represented by the Coalition and others, to deliver a loud and clear message to Congress by making 5 phone calls on Monday and Tuesday (Feb. 25 &amp; 26). Please note that we said CALL, not email. We want millions of voices to ring through the congressional switchboard, so please note that you might have to try several times to get through.<\/p>\n<p>Specifically, we are asking you to call:<\/i><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><i>\n<p>    Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell at 202-224-2541<\/i><\/li>\n<li><i>\n<p>    House Speaker John Boehner at 202-225-0600<\/i><\/li>\n<li><i>\n<p>    Senator Richard Burr at 202-224-3154<\/i><\/li>\n<li><i>\n<p>    Senator Kay Hagan at 202-224-6342<\/i><\/li>\n<li><i>\n<p>    Your representative to the U.S. House. To identify your US House representative, go to: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.house.gov\/representatives\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.house.gov\/representatives\/<\/a> and then enter your zip code in the upper right corner of the page.<\/i><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><i><\/p>\n<p><b>DELIVER THIS MESSAGE<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Give congressional staff 3 simple talking points:<\/i><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><i>\n<p>    Nothing about the federal proposals is acceptable \u2013 not banning semi-automatic firearms and magazines, not expanding the list of people prohibited from owning guns, and not registering private gun sales via the National Instant Check System;<\/i><\/li>\n<li><i>\n<p>    Because \u201ccompromise\u201d means losing freedom, you will not \u201ccompromise\u201d on this issue, including any \u201clite\u201d version of registering private sales through the National Instant Check System; and<\/i><\/li>\n<li><i>\n<p>    As a member of one of the organizations comprising the National Coalition to Stop the Gun Ban, you will support coordinated Coalition action against any legislator who supports gun control.<\/i><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><i><\/p>\n<p><b>ADDITIONAL ACTION<\/b><\/p>\n<p>If you have additional time, please CALL other US House representatives in the North Carolina delegation, including:<\/p>\n<p>Rep. G. K. Butterfield, Jr. (D &#8211; 01) 202-225-3101<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Renee L. Ellmers (R &#8211; 02) 202-225-4531  <\/p>\n<p>Rep. Walter B. Jones, Jr. (R &#8211; 03) 202-225-3415<\/p>\n<p>Rep. David Price (D &#8211; 04) 202-225-1784<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Virginia Foxx (R &#8211; 05) 202-225-2071<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Howard Coble (R &#8211; 06) 202-225-3065<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Mike McIntyre (D &#8211; 07) 202-225-2731<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Richard Hudson (R &#8211; 08) 202-225-3715<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Robert Pittenger (R &#8211; 09) 202-225-1976<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Patrick McHenry (R &#8211; 10) 202-225-2576<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Mark Meadows (R-11) 202-225-6401<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Mel Watt (D &#8211; 12) 202-225-1510<\/p>\n<p>Rep. George Holding (R &#8211; 13) 202-225-3032<\/i> <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In response to news that Obama&#8217;s former campaign organization would be having a &#8220;National Day of Action&#8221; in support&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[159,45,2802],"class_list":["post-2533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-grnc","tag-gun-control","tag-organizing-for-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2533"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8870,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2533\/revisions\/8870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}