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Latest news on legislative action
Submitted on: December 12, 2000
Today the House and Senate were affected by the weather. Many legislators did not make it in. However, we have the following news to report:
The CCW legislation is expected to be released from conference committee and voted on in both the House and Senate tomorrow, Wednesday the 13th.
If you want to witness this historic event, and show support by being present (your legislators take note when constituents are there.) be in the House gallery balcony in the capitol building at 10am. After the House votes the bill out, it's expected that the Senate will take it up and vote on it Wednesday also. Please note that there is the possibility that it could be held up, and that this is only a probable schedule, but obviously if a bunch of constituents are present, the leadership might be less-inclined to put the vote off.
misc deleted - Oatka
If you can't make it--and even if you can--please call both your state representative's office and your state senator's office tomorrow and voice your support. Handgun Control, Inc. is staging a phone campaign and they have people calling OUR legislators from other states. This is our bill, not theirs. We need YOUR call Wednesday morning, even if you've called before.
And remember--we want CCW, the Vear bill, AND the Dove bill. It's especially crucial that these calls be made to the senators' offices, and you should also call Sen. Dan Degrow's office in particular. He's the Senate Majority Leader and he's the one who decides whether or not the bills get voted on in the Senate. His number is 517-373-7708 and his e-mail is senddegrow@senate.state.mi.us
The time to be quiet is past--now we need your voices in support of our agenda.
And don't stop calling either the Governor's office or the Attorney General--it's important that both offices be buried under an avalanche of pro-gun calls. As always, be polite. We have no beef with the staffers who answer the phones. Leave the hysterical or rude calls to the anti-gunners.
And, a related article -- (it's not too late to act on this one either):
Granholm abusing her office in an effort to stop CCW...what YOU can do.
Submitted on: December 7, 2000
Attorney General Jennifer Granholm has begun speaking out against our CCW bill in a series of commercials, paid for by the anti-gun groups and their out-of-state donors, and she's claiming that we'll all carry "hidden guns" into schools and churches and that anyone, regardless of their criminal or mental history, will be carrying guns if the legislation passes.
OK...this needs to be addressed by every state citizen who's offended by this. What we have here is an elected official using her office to advance a personal agenda and lobby against a law that we, the People, have worked to pass.
Granholm should have run for office as a legislator if she wanted to make public policy. Had she done that, she would have had a right to try to make or block laws. But she chose instead to run for the position of Attorney General, and she did this knowing that her job would be to enforce the laws that the legislators pass.
So respond. Let her know that her actions are wrong. Call her office and protest. The number is 517-373-1110.
Then call your state rep and your state senator and request that they do something to keep her from using her position to interfere with the legislative branch's efforts. And write at least one letter to a newspaper objecting. The Lansing State Journal's the best one, because all the legislators get it, but the Detroit papers have circulation.
Her conduct as a public servant is unacceptable. It's time the People start demanding and getting some respect from her.
Lansing State Journal editorials can be posted at:
http://www.lansingstatejournal.com/letter.html
Send letters to the Detroit News at: letters@detnews.com
and to the Free Press at: letters@freepress.com
Finally--and this is crucial--call the Governor's office at 517-373-3400. Granholm's ads tell everyone to call there and demand that CCW be stopped. The Governor's office reports a ton of calls, both agaist and FOR CCW. They are counting each call that comes in. We need to rack up more calls to that office than Granholm's side, so call today and pass the word on to other pro-gunners you know.
Granholm started this fight, now it's up to us gun owners to win it.
Latest news on legislative action
Submitted on: December 12, 2000
Today the House and Senate were affected by the weather. Many legislators did not make it in. However, we have the following news to report:
The CCW legislation is expected to be released from conference committee and voted on in both the House and Senate tomorrow, Wednesday the 13th.
If you want to witness this historic event, and show support by being present (your legislators take note when constituents are there.) be in the House gallery balcony in the capitol building at 10am. After the House votes the bill out, it's expected that the Senate will take it up and vote on it Wednesday also. Please note that there is the possibility that it could be held up, and that this is only a probable schedule, but obviously if a bunch of constituents are present, the leadership might be less-inclined to put the vote off.
misc deleted - Oatka
If you can't make it--and even if you can--please call both your state representative's office and your state senator's office tomorrow and voice your support. Handgun Control, Inc. is staging a phone campaign and they have people calling OUR legislators from other states. This is our bill, not theirs. We need YOUR call Wednesday morning, even if you've called before.
And remember--we want CCW, the Vear bill, AND the Dove bill. It's especially crucial that these calls be made to the senators' offices, and you should also call Sen. Dan Degrow's office in particular. He's the Senate Majority Leader and he's the one who decides whether or not the bills get voted on in the Senate. His number is 517-373-7708 and his e-mail is senddegrow@senate.state.mi.us
The time to be quiet is past--now we need your voices in support of our agenda.
And don't stop calling either the Governor's office or the Attorney General--it's important that both offices be buried under an avalanche of pro-gun calls. As always, be polite. We have no beef with the staffers who answer the phones. Leave the hysterical or rude calls to the anti-gunners.
And, a related article -- (it's not too late to act on this one either):
Granholm abusing her office in an effort to stop CCW...what YOU can do.
Submitted on: December 7, 2000
Attorney General Jennifer Granholm has begun speaking out against our CCW bill in a series of commercials, paid for by the anti-gun groups and their out-of-state donors, and she's claiming that we'll all carry "hidden guns" into schools and churches and that anyone, regardless of their criminal or mental history, will be carrying guns if the legislation passes.
OK...this needs to be addressed by every state citizen who's offended by this. What we have here is an elected official using her office to advance a personal agenda and lobby against a law that we, the People, have worked to pass.
Granholm should have run for office as a legislator if she wanted to make public policy. Had she done that, she would have had a right to try to make or block laws. But she chose instead to run for the position of Attorney General, and she did this knowing that her job would be to enforce the laws that the legislators pass.
So respond. Let her know that her actions are wrong. Call her office and protest. The number is 517-373-1110.
Then call your state rep and your state senator and request that they do something to keep her from using her position to interfere with the legislative branch's efforts. And write at least one letter to a newspaper objecting. The Lansing State Journal's the best one, because all the legislators get it, but the Detroit papers have circulation.
Her conduct as a public servant is unacceptable. It's time the People start demanding and getting some respect from her.
Lansing State Journal editorials can be posted at:
http://www.lansingstatejournal.com/letter.html
Send letters to the Detroit News at: letters@detnews.com
and to the Free Press at: letters@freepress.com
Finally--and this is crucial--call the Governor's office at 517-373-3400. Granholm's ads tell everyone to call there and demand that CCW be stopped. The Governor's office reports a ton of calls, both agaist and FOR CCW. They are counting each call that comes in. We need to rack up more calls to that office than Granholm's side, so call today and pass the word on to other pro-gunners you know.
Granholm started this fight, now it's up to us gun owners to win it.