Give Trump a March 15 Pink Slip , March 15, 2017

OREGON–(ENEWSPF)–February 26, 2017

By: Rosemary Piser

While reading the Oregon Register Guard yesterday, I found a Letter to the Editor by Stephanie Perkins of Springfield, explaining the peaceful protest #TheIdesOfTrump that will take place on March 15th. Even with all the research I do daily for eNews Park Forest, this was the first I had heard of this brilliant idea.  This is the kind of peaceful protest that everyone can participate in as it only requires you to mail a postcard to the White House on March 15.  As someone who has seen the inner workings of the Federal government, I have learned from Congressional staffers that the best way to get the attention of our politicians is to send them something in the mail or by calling your Congressperson’s office.  Why? First, those letters or postcards, for example, require staffers to do all the work associated with sorting, inventorying, and providing them to the person to whom they were sent.  In addition, the paper provides a tangible picture of how many people are reacting. So in many ways, sending something in the mail to DC gets more attention than sending an e-mail or Tweet.

Here’s the information from the Ides of Trump website:

On March 15th, 2017 each of us will mail the White House a postcard that publicly expresses our vocal opposition to the new president. And we, in vast numbers, from all corners of the world, will overwhelm Washington.

We will show the man, the media, and the politicians how vast our numbers are and we will bury the White House post office in pink slips, all informing the President that he’s fired!

Each of us — every protester from every march, each Congress calling citizen, every boycotter, volunteer, donor, and petition signer — will write a single postcard and put them all in the mail on the same day, March 15th, 2017.

No alternative fact or Russian translation will explain away our record-breaking, officially-verifiable, warehouse-filling flood of fury. Hank Aaron currently holds the record for fan mail, having received 900,000 pieces in a year. We’re setting a new record: over a million pieces in a day.

So sharpen your wit, unsheathe your writing implements, and write from the heart. All of our issues — DAPL, women’s rights, racial discrimination, religious freedom, immigration, economic security, education, the environment, conflicts of interest, the existence of facts — can and should find common cause. That cause is to make it irrefutable that the president’s claim of wide support is a farce.

He may draw a big crowd with empty promises, but the crowd of those that oppose his agenda is exponentially larger. And we will show up to protest, to vote, and to be heard. Again and again and again.