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Grassroots groups SaveOurStripers and SaveDeltaFish expand efforts to defeat AB 1253: Letters still needed
April 15, 2009 -- Two grass roots groups have expanded their efforts to defeat AB 1253, Assemblywoman Fuller's bill to deregulate the striped bass. The efforts now include two websites, a 10 minute video, on-line petitions and two flyers to be passed out by supporters seeking to have the bill defeated.
The first group, www.SaveOurStripers.Org, headed by Dave Sellers, an avid delta angler, set up a website where businesses opposing the bill could sign a petition asking that the bill be killed in committee. The website has now been expanded to include a petition from individual anglers and organizations as well. As part of that effort two flyers have been distributed both on the web and printed to be handed out, one for organizations and the other for businesses.
The second group, www.SaveDeltaFish.Org is headed by Robert Johnson, Jr., again a private angler for striped bass. Johnson assembled a video crew with guide and videographer Mike E. Wier as director and cameraman, and himself as narrator. The film features Johnson, Wier, Bobby Barrack and Mike Costello, two top notch delta guides and Gene Buchholz, owner of Hook, Line and Sinker all speaking against the passage of AB 1253. The site also links to a petition for those wanting to sign up in opposition to the bill's passage
While signing the petitions is extremely easy to do, they don't have near the impact of writing a personal letter and sending it by snail mail to the committee's address or to one of the assembly members if you live in one of their districts. Letters have been proven time and time again as the MOST effective way to reach your elected representative.
Instructions for letter writing, sample letters and assembly members names, districts and addresses can be found on the CSPA website. |