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Please Write Your Senators

Posted by NonZaga on 9/10/2009, 1:11 pm

Gonzaga fans are being encouraged to write their Senators so that they can help their Sudanese recruit Bol Kong gain entry to the U.S.

Dear Senator,

Drop the health care nonsense, forget abour the war in Afghanistan and ignore the national debt. Do whatever you have to to get our recruit into school.

Thank You.

Forget about the fact that school started at Gonzaga on September 1st. Although actually attending class (or being on campus) doesn't appear to be necessary for Gonzaga basketball players. Ask Elias Harris, a GU recruit who has still not attended any classes NINE days after they started.

Link: http://www.guboards.spokesmanreview.com/showthread.php?t=22292

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maybe they should call on

Posted by BTB on 9/10/2009, 1:28 pm, in reply to "Please Write Your Senators"

Jessica Lange, Jeff Bridges, and Charles Grodin for assistance. They got King Kong into the country.

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Re: Mutumbo

Posted by Cresco Dave on 9/10/2009, 1:28 pm, in reply to "Please Write Your Senators"

Why bother with politicians???!!! One call to Dikembe should do the trick.

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Posted by Dons Central on 9/10/2009, 1:39 pm, in reply to "Please Write Your Senators"

I will give Gonzaga fans credit, they do get off their butts and burn calories if they feel Gonzaga has been wronged.

They made a poor San Diego columnist write a retraction after brought up Gonzaga's poor graduation rate, because APR is the main factor right now.

They got on the horn and e-mail to Rivals when Gonzaga's name was dropped from several of their prospective recruits.

The only that time I am that energentic is if there is a small kitchen fire or my cable goes out.

All other times I figure if I wait a couple weeks, hopefully it will fix itself. Not Gonzaga fans. I feel sorry for the poor staff member answering those senator's phones.

I wanted Kong to get in, but as Purple Pride pointed out in the other thread, he was not this hidden gem that the Gonzaga staff found. He contacted other schools and they all took a pass because they thought he would never get into the country. Maybe those schools were correct.

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Posted by Ironlions on 9/10/2009, 2:11 pm, in reply to "Re: Please Write Your Senators"

Recent events in Sudan aren't going to help the Kong cause. I believe several women we fined, sent to jail and given lashing because they wore pants...no, I'm not joking.

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Posted by Dons Central on 9/10/2009, 2:24 pm, in reply to "Re: Please Write Your Senators"

Good point. Also, checking the date on the calendar (meaning the day before 9/11), it is probably not a great time of year for citizens from countries thought of as terrorist countries to be let in.

I know some Zag fans think letting ESPN know the story is going to help their cause. But, if Few sneezes, Andy Katz hands him a tissue. I think he is aware of the situation.

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Posted by QD on 9/10/2009, 2:29 pm, in reply to "Re: Please Write Your Senators"

Yes, if Few's personal friend Andy Katz could have helped, I'm sure he would have already tried.

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Posted by QD on 9/10/2009, 2:28 pm, in reply to "Re: Please Write Your Senators"

And tomorrow is 9-11. For good or bad, the government has cracked down on students coming from countries that sponsor terrorism.

A Senator may be swayed if he had family in the U.S., a sick mom who needed her son or if he needed political asylum. But he lives in Vancouver, one of the safest, most beautiful cities in the world. It's not exactly a hardship.

And I doubt anyone will be swayed by a bunch of college basketball fans who don't know him at all and just want him to play basketball for their school.

I suspect he will just play somewhere in Canada and then try to get over to Europe in a few years.

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Posted by Dons Central on 9/10/2009, 2:40 pm, in reply to "Re: Please Write Your Senators"

"And I doubt anyone will be swayed by a bunch of college basketball fans who don't know him at all and just want him to play basketball for their school. "

Bingo. Is that any different, along with their wanting ESPN on it, than if I urged people to call up Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh to keep him out of the U.S. with my only reason being I want there to be LESS talent on the Gonzaga team?

Now, let's see how wrongly that above statement can be taken by some people (I don't watch/listen to Beck nor Limbaugh, nor do I watch/listen to Olbermann/Maddow, so no political side taken there. It was just an example, and I am not urging anyone to do that. I have said I wanted Kong on Gonzaga's roster)

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Posted by Purple Pride on 9/10/2009, 2:49 pm, in reply to "Please Write Your Senators"

The thing is... it's all well and good to contact Senators, but if you step back for a second - why would a US Senator stick their neck out to help a Canadian/Sudanese kid? If he were a constituent of theirs and was denied a visa into Canada, that's one thing. But a Canadian kid trying to get into the US?

Do you have any idea how many sob stories there are out there after the tightening up of immigration laws? Thousands... tens of thousands probably. There was a woman in Oregon from Norway who had lived here for like 40 years, had several kids, was very invovled in the community, etc. and was deported after they discovered a pot charge against her from the 70s. No, I'm not joking.

The federal government just doesn't mess around with immigration stuff anymore, for better or worse as someone already said.

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Posted by socal on 9/10/2009, 10:09 pm, in reply to "Re: Please Write Your Senators"

dude, does the name 'jesus shuttlesworth' ring a bell? senators recruit athletes all the time (in hollywood and the SEC).

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Posted by Risaralda View on 9/11/2009, 7:48 am, in reply to "Re: Please Write Your Senators"

When I was in college, there was tune by Eddie Cochran, called " Summertime Blues".
If the Gonzaga fans don`t get any satisfaction from their Senators, there is always their Congressman or the U.N.
Here are the lyrics from that old rock `n roll hit: "I`m gonna take two weeks gonna have a fine vacation.
I`m gonna take my problem to the United Nations.
Well, I called my Congressman and he said quote: "I`d like to help you son, but you`re too young to vote".
P.S. To get serious for a moment, the U.S. Government helped out my step-daughter and her husband and baby child. In Nov. 2004 she got political asylum for her family. The insurgents, in Colombia, had threatened her and the baby with death, if she didn`t quit working as an attorney in the D.A.`s office.
Just last week they got the paperwork finished to be permanent legal residents of the U.S. It will be a little bit longer before they become U.S. Citizens. The wheels turn slowly, but they do turn, for immigrants who have a legitimate reason for coming to the United States.

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Posted by Tyrone Shoelaces on 9/11/2009, 8:24 am, in reply to "Re: Please Write Your Senators"

Risaralda View: NIce job on the Eddie Cochran reference--I'm partial to "The Who" cover of "summertime Blues". I love that the pop culture references on this board span at least 5 decades.

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Posted by Statman on 9/11/2009, 3:25 pm, in reply to "Re: Please Write Your Senators"

Your comments regarding the immigration process for most people brings up a pet peeve I have regarding the immigration of Latin American baseball players.

The player agents for Latin American players will get the player accepted to come to the United States to play ball which I think is very generous. The agents in turn will then have the player go through another country before coming to the United States in order to avoid the major league draft.

If it was up to me I would make the player reapply for US entry from the new country and let him wait three or four years for acceptance. Just my take.

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Posted by MickMick on 9/11/2009, 7:14 pm, in reply to "Re: Please Write Your Senators"

http://www.sportsbusinessdaily.com/article/131552

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Posted by Dons Central on 9/11/2009, 7:37 pm, in reply to "Re: Please Write Your Senators"

Thank you for the brilliant article that has nothing to do with anything posted here. Your Gonzaga brain at work.

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Posted by MickMick on 9/11/2009, 7:53 pm, in reply to "Re: Please Write Your Senators"

I stand corrected. Writing elected officials has nothing to do with Zag bashing.

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Posted by MP1 on 9/12/2009, 9:12 am, in reply to "Re: Please Write Your Senators"

I have to agree it is somewhat of a reach. But, maybe if you havent already posted on the Zag board it could result in some "lively" discussion for you feller's.

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Posted by MickMick on 9/12/2009, 9:38 am, in reply to "Re: Please Write Your Senators"

But...but, I received an invitation from NonZaga to post here.

I was looking for some lively discussion here.

Hmmm a thread titled "Please write your Senators"

It belittles the concept of politicians being politicians.

Dear Senator,

Drop the health care nonsense, forget about the war in Afghanistan and ignore the national debt. Do whatever you have to to get Utah into the BCS.

Thank You.

Of course The honorable senator didn't receive any letters from his constituents on the subject. Faced with other daunting issues, he still demonstrated his ability to think outside the box. On a late flight to DC, he simply dreamed up the idea. He leaned over to his aide and whispered, "I got an idea! Let's surprise the voters by taking time out on the senate floor to demand that Utah football is eligible for a national championship!"

Of course on a much smaller scale, a senator representing the Gonzaga constituency need not occupy the time of other senators or issue a press release. A simple private letter or phone call to the proper bureaucrat would relay the message that "voters are corresponding with me." And the resulting action could be as simple as taking the paperwork from the bottom of stack B and putting it on top of stack A.

Nah.....it doesn't do any good to write your senator.

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