Today is DAY 2 of our action alert.  You can check out yesterday's call to action HERE.  We're asking everyone to stick with the battle plan, make a couple more calls and send a couple more emails today.  The response yesterday was great and the message is being delivered loud and clear.  But there's a lot of work yet to be done.

Our Representatives are getting it from all sides right now.  The Governor is calling them in for private meetings to try to buy them off.  The MEA has teachers, school board members and administrators calling them daily swearing on their students lives that the sky is falling.  Public employee unions and local government officials are throwing mud and calling them names.  
But most are standing firm.  Most are standing up for their principles and saying, `no, Michigan has a spending problem, not a taxing problem.  I won election by campaigning against wasteful spending and I won't raise taxes to protect the status quo.'

Still, in a chamber as large as the Michigan House there are always a few who need an extra little push to remind them where they came from and what they were sent to Lansing to do.  The urge to appease the enemy can be powerful sometimes but we can't stand for it.  Period.

That's where YOU come in... today!

Will you help send the message?  Will you help remind so-called "fiscal conservative" Republicans that you won't stand for tax increases but more, that you won't stand for your elected officials violating their principles, saying one thing during an election and doing another once they win?  We get enough of that out of Jennifer Granholm these days.

Wherever you are, whatever part of the state you're in please do this RIGHT NOW:

1. Fire off an email.  Tell each of these Reps that you won't stand for a vote to raise taxes and remind them what's at stake.

2. Call each of them.  Pick up the phone.  Let them hear from you in person.  No excuses.

An email and a phone call to each shouldn't take but ten minutes total.  No matter how busy we are, we can all make ten minutes.  Michigan's future may very well depend on what you do today.

Then let us know how it goes!

Yesterday we called Senator Valde Garcia, and Representatives Gaffney and Nofs.  If you're just joining us, please click the story linked in the top of this article to find their email addresses and phone numbers and start with them.  Because while we were working, so was the Governor.  She continued twisting arms all day.  

From the looks of things Representatives Ball and Booher may need a friendly reminder of what it means to be a fiscal conservative.  Of what it means to be a Republican.

Representative Dick Ball (District 85, Clinton, Shiawassee Counties)
Email: richardball@house.mi.gov
Office: 517-373-0841

Representative Darwin Booher (District 102, Mecosta, Osceola, Wexford Counties)
Email: darwinbooher@house.mi.gov
Office: 517-373-1747