want dem reds
03-26-2009, 02:10 PM
Dear Saltwater Angler,
We are sure that all are waiting with much anticipation the Bill number for our game fish designation. The Senate amended their schedule to extend their deadline of bill introduction to today. After several “strategy” sessions with our sponsors in both the Senate and the House, at their recommendations and with our agreement, we have decided not to introduce the bill into the Senate, but rather introduce it into the House alone.
There are several sound reasons for this strategy. First, the House has more time for us to get this out into the public forum which will allow us more time to build the fires in the media to build momentum going into the Senate side. There are only 50 Senators, and most are aware of this coming bill. We felt it would be better to let them see the public and media sentiment grow before it actually arrived in the Senate. Politicians often change their minds as the public becomes more aware and boisterous when an issue strikes a nerve like this one will! The Senate will be closely watching!
This will give all of us more focus too on one group of legislators right now instead of trying to sway the entire group. Let the Senators sit quietly by and watch this thing build momentum. When it gets to the Senate floor, we can direct all our efforts to that group of legislators then! Hopefully by then, we will have substantial national attention as well as statewide.
So now we will proceed with the support of our Representatives in the House. We relied heavily on this decision between our Sponsors in both houses, and Dick Hamilton, who has been through this process with many of these same folks for many years. We do have our bill in hand, and we are sharpening the points on it right now. Hopefully we will have a bill number within the next day or so. Trust me, no one wants to see that number anymore than we do! Be patient, it’s on the way!
We have created a new blog-site that we will be able to link from our current one that is totally devoted to this issue alone. As the Representatives sign on as supporters of the bill, their photographs will appear under a heading “Friends of the Saltwater Angler”. Joe Albea has all his media connections ready to roll, and we have been contacted by 2 nationally known and published magazines that are waiting for this bill number also. We have been contacted by them by email and direct phone conversations, and they plan to weigh in heavily on our behalf when this thing cranks up. We have several television stations that are waiting for our call. We will be emailing you a “Wanted” poster that you can print and distribute!
We have a blog post created that has an alphabetical county by county list of all the legislators and their email “link” right beside their name that will be posted on the blog site immediately when we have the bill number. Anyone in the state can scroll down to his or her county, and see all their legislators right there and have their email addresses for point and click! We will also have the phone number and email address for the Governor, and the Speaker of the House available.
We are sitting on “Go”! Stay tuned!
Thanks for your time
Coastal Fisheries Reform Group
CFRGNC@yahoo.com
Coastal Fisheries Reform Group (http://www.cfrgnc.blogspot.com/)
We are sure that all are waiting with much anticipation the Bill number for our game fish designation. The Senate amended their schedule to extend their deadline of bill introduction to today. After several “strategy” sessions with our sponsors in both the Senate and the House, at their recommendations and with our agreement, we have decided not to introduce the bill into the Senate, but rather introduce it into the House alone.
There are several sound reasons for this strategy. First, the House has more time for us to get this out into the public forum which will allow us more time to build the fires in the media to build momentum going into the Senate side. There are only 50 Senators, and most are aware of this coming bill. We felt it would be better to let them see the public and media sentiment grow before it actually arrived in the Senate. Politicians often change their minds as the public becomes more aware and boisterous when an issue strikes a nerve like this one will! The Senate will be closely watching!
This will give all of us more focus too on one group of legislators right now instead of trying to sway the entire group. Let the Senators sit quietly by and watch this thing build momentum. When it gets to the Senate floor, we can direct all our efforts to that group of legislators then! Hopefully by then, we will have substantial national attention as well as statewide.
So now we will proceed with the support of our Representatives in the House. We relied heavily on this decision between our Sponsors in both houses, and Dick Hamilton, who has been through this process with many of these same folks for many years. We do have our bill in hand, and we are sharpening the points on it right now. Hopefully we will have a bill number within the next day or so. Trust me, no one wants to see that number anymore than we do! Be patient, it’s on the way!
We have created a new blog-site that we will be able to link from our current one that is totally devoted to this issue alone. As the Representatives sign on as supporters of the bill, their photographs will appear under a heading “Friends of the Saltwater Angler”. Joe Albea has all his media connections ready to roll, and we have been contacted by 2 nationally known and published magazines that are waiting for this bill number also. We have been contacted by them by email and direct phone conversations, and they plan to weigh in heavily on our behalf when this thing cranks up. We have several television stations that are waiting for our call. We will be emailing you a “Wanted” poster that you can print and distribute!
We have a blog post created that has an alphabetical county by county list of all the legislators and their email “link” right beside their name that will be posted on the blog site immediately when we have the bill number. Anyone in the state can scroll down to his or her county, and see all their legislators right there and have their email addresses for point and click! We will also have the phone number and email address for the Governor, and the Speaker of the House available.
We are sitting on “Go”! Stay tuned!
Thanks for your time
Coastal Fisheries Reform Group
CFRGNC@yahoo.com
Coastal Fisheries Reform Group (http://www.cfrgnc.blogspot.com/)