The Teamsters will bring our battle with Transportation Secretary Mary Peters to a San Francisco courtroom on Tuesday.

Between now and then, tens of thousands of “Fire Mary Peters — She’s a Lawbreakerâ€? bumper stickers are appearing on Teamster cars and trucks throughout America.

Teamsters angry with Mary Peters for illegally opening the border to unsafe trucks from Mexico will rally outside the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday morning.

Inside the courthouse, we will tell the judges just how Mary Peters broke the law when she opened the border as part of a so-called “pilot project.�

The law is very simple: no money can be spent on a “pilot project� to open the border to Mexican trucks. It is an amendment to the Omnibus budget bill, signed into law on Dec. 26.

Congress could not have made it clearer that the amendment was intended to stop the pilot project dead in its tracks.

But no sooner was the ink dry on the budget when this out-of-control bureaucrat announced she would not stop the program. The wording, she said, wasn’t clear.

Hence we launched our national grassroots, netroots “Fire Mary Petersâ€? campaign. “Fire Mary Peters — Lawbreakerâ€? advertisements appeared Friday at the Navy Yard Metro stop, just across the street from Department of Transportation headquarters.

I’m told that DOT employees broke into smiles when they caught sight of the giant “Fire Mary Petersâ€? floor graphic. We like to think we’ve improved morale at the DOT — as well as brought public attention to the misdeeds of an incredibly arrogant government employee.

We’ve run “Fire Mary Petersâ€? radio ads and Web ads (including on The Hill). We set up a “Fire Mary Petersâ€? whistleblower hotline to report any other law she’s broken (202.508.6439) — and yes, we’ve gotten some calls. We sent 250,000 letters to Teamsters who drive trucks and Teamsters who live on the border, urging them to take action.

In the first two days of the campaign, 1,764 letters were sent to senators and representatives asking them to find Mary Peters in contempt of Congress.

On Thursday, during an appropriations subcommittee hearing, three members of Congress told Mary Peters to her face that she was breaking the law.

We anticipate that the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals will agree. In the meantime, we’re ordering more bumper stickers. We can’t keep them in stock.

This entry was posted on Saturday, February 9th, 2008 at 9:00 am and is filed under Foreign Policy, Homeland Security, Labor, Politics .