{"id":4667,"date":"2006-03-17T22:20:15","date_gmt":"2006-03-17T22:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=4667"},"modified":"2025-09-25T14:47:33","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T14:47:33","slug":"news_on_us_acti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=4667","title":{"rendered":"News on U.S. action regarding Darfur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I posted a while ago about the horrible genocidal war going on in Darfur, Sudan. It is mentioned in the NRO article I linked to in the previous post. <\/p>\n<p>My friend John Lally, who has been very involved in Save Darfur efforts, sent me an email which I reproduce below. Re: my Republican Congressional representative Sue Kelly: what a jerk. I never voted for her, I never will vote for her&#8230; a further reminder to me of the merits of my not belonging to a political party.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re in Sue&#8217;s district, why not give her a call to express your displeasure. <\/p>\n<p><strong>In case you haven&#8217;t heard, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the amendment providing $50 million to immediately bolster the peacekeeping mission to stop genocide in Darfur, Sudan. The amendment passed by a narrow 213-208 vote after a furious call-in campaign organized by the Save Darfur Coalition. A key member of the House called to express his gratitude for people of faith, saying, &quot;the tremendous grassroots advocacy (by people of faith) helped make possible this victory for the people of Darfur.&quot; <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sadly, Sue Kelly voted against the amendment. I suggest calling (202-225-5441) or emailing(<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/suekelly.hous.gov\/\"><strong>http:\/\/suekelly.hous.gov\/<\/strong><\/a><strong>) her to let her know our dissatisfaction with that vote.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 0.8em;\"><strong><\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I posted a while ago about the horrible genocidal war going on in Darfur, Sudan. It is mentioned in the NRO article I linked to in the previous post. My friend John Lally, who has been very involved in Save Darfur efforts, sent me an email which I reproduce below. Re: my Republican Congressional representative [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4667"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9772,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4667\/revisions\/9772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}