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November 04, 2004

News 11/03/04 - After Election Action Alert

Now that the elections are over and the results are in, we must
focus and re-energize our efforts to highlight the issues that are
so important to the peace process in Ireland, the deportees and
Irish visitors in the United States and work against Senate
ratification of the US/UK Extradition treaty.

There will be many new faces in the House and Senate that we should
reach out to. The newly elected will take office in January, so we
should introduce ourselves, educate and keep them updated on our
issues.

It is reported that there may be changes in the White House cabinet
as well.

White House Cabinet

As for Ciaran Ferry, John McNicholl and Malachy McAllister's
plight, the cases are still in the courts and it appears that they
will be for awhile. We need to organize support in the House and
Senate now more than ever.

Colorado just elected a new Senator, Ken Salazar (D), that
hopefully will help with Ciaran's situation after we educate him on
the situation.

Letters explaining the case & congratulating him on his election
may be directed to:

Senator Ken Salazar
P.O. Box 600
Denver, CO 80201-0600
Email: frontdesk@s...
http://www.salazarforcolorado.com/

Represenative Bob Beauprez (R) who recently lent support to Ciaran
during his recent hearing, has just been re-elected for another
term.

Please send letters of thanks and congratulations to:

Representative Bob Beauprez
Attn: Sean Murphy - Chief of Staff
511 Cannon House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
Fax: 202.225.5278
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For Malachy and the Irish issues in New Jersey/New York, many of
the people who have shown great support were also re- elected:

Donald Payne (D)
Rodney Frelinghuysen (R)
Bob Menendez (D)
Chris Smith (R)
Scott Garrett (R)
Frank Pallone (D)
Bill Pascrell (D)
Steve Rothman (D)
Charles Schumer (D)
Eliot Engel (D)
Sue Kelly (R)
Jim Walsh (R)
Peter King (R)
Joe Crowley (D)
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CONTACT YOUR LOCAL REPRESENTATIVES, ESPECIALLY THE NEWLY ELECTED &
HIGHLIGHT THE IRISH ISSUES THAT ARE IMPORTANT TO YOU!

The House & Senate are adjourned until Tuesday, Nov. 16, so it is
best to use their local addresses.

Please keep us updated to any responses you receive.
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Elections results for your area can be found at:
http://www.cnn.com or http://www.c-span.org

The newly elected officials should have website links where you can
obtain their current address info.


IRISH AMERICAN UNITY CONFERENCE
National Office
611 Pennsylvania Ave, SE # 4150
Washington, D.C. 20003
1-800-947-4282
http://www.iauc.org

Jay Dooling (rdooling@swbell.net)
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