[ SHOWGSD-L ] LEGISLATIVE ALERT - OPPOSE CA AB2862 - Hearing 8/10 - Addresses of Bus. & Prof. Committee Members
- From: "Ginger Cleary" <cleary1414@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "Showgsd-L@Freelists. Org" <showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2006 22:18:53 -0400
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Contact information to OPPOSE CA AB 2862 is at the end of this email.
TODAY - Please email, fax, and call the senators and the assemblyman who are
now
involved with this bill.
This request is addressed to anyone and everyone who wants to show their
support of animal breeders, animal sellers, and animal keepers in the state
of
California. Whether you breed, sell, or keep animals, AB 2862 will affect
you
negatively if it passes. You don't need to live in California to voice your
OPPOSITION to AB 2862.
As of today (8/8) AB 2862 has not been amended to address any of its many
serious problems, as was promised by its author at the 6/26 public hearing.
Despite claims that the author and sponsors are negotiating in good faith
and
have made the bill acceptable, NO amendment containing ANY of the promised
revisions has been posted yet on the CA legislature's website for the public
to
read. Still, the next hearing is set for 8/10 (2 days from now).
The last version of AB 2862 published is
http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_2851-2900/ab_2862_bill_20060619_am
en
ded_sen.html
AB 2862 seeks to impose restrictions on the sale of all vertebrate animals
(i.e., all animals with a spine, including all mammals, birds, reptiles, and
fish), and seeks to impose very detailed husbandry standards on the keepers
of
all vertebrate animals that are kept at "pet stores", which under AB 2862
are
defined as "any establishment or marketplace where animals are bought, sold,
exchanged, or offered for sale to the general public with the intent of
making a
profit where the animals are intended as companions or household animals.
This term includes the keeping for transfer or the transfer of animals at
flea
markets, department stores, merchandise outlets, and discount outlets. "
AB 2862 defines an animal as "any nonhuman vertebrate species, and includes
rodents intended as food for reptiles."
AB 2862 is vague, overbroad, includes serious criminal penalties for minor
and tecnical violations that don't harm animals, and does not guarantee the
humane treatment of any animals in "pet stores". California law already has
strong criminal laws on the books to identify and punish animal abuse.
Adding
another layer of very restrictive legislation on pet breeders, sellers, and
keepers, (AB 2862) will not stop the abuse of animals by those who abuse
them.
Enforcing the strict criminal laws already on the books is the way to curb
and punish animal abuse.
AB 2862 will make it very difficult, if not impossible, for all pet breeders
and pet sellers to continue to do business in California. If pet breeders
and pet sellers are put out of business, pet keepers will soon have no
source
of healthy, well socialized pets.
AB 2862 is being used by Animal Rights activists as a template for future
restrictive legislation in other states. If AB 2862 passes in California, we
are informed that there are already plans to introduce mirror legislation in
other states.
Please take a few minutes TODAY to call, fax, and email the 5 members of the
Senate Committee who are going to hear AB2862 again on Thursday 8/10, and
also
contact the assemblymember who has sponsored the bill.
Be sure to write PLEASE OPPOSE AB 2862 in the subject line of your fax or
email. When you call, be sure to open with PLEASE OPPOSE AB 2862.
There is no need to say anything else complicated, they probably won't have
time to read it or talk with you for any length of time. At this point the
legislators are mostly counting numbers pro and con. They are rushing to
pass
about 1500 bills before the close of the California legislative session at
the end of August.
IF YOU OWN A PET, OR WANT TO CONTINUE TO BE ABLE TO OWN A PET, PLEASE HAVE
THE COURAGE TO ACT NOW - AND STAND UP FOR PET BREEDING, PET SELLING, AND PET
KEEPING IN CALIFORNIA.
Thank you.
Genny Wall
CONTACT INFORMATION:
http://members.optusnet.com.au/~laconic26/mainpic11.jpg
SENATE COMMITTEE ON BUSINESS, PROFESSIONS & ECONOMIC
DEVELOPMENT
Voice phone for the Committee office is 916-651-4104
Committee Fax 916-327-2433
Chair, Senator Liz Figueroa D-10 Fremont
State Capitol, Room 4061
Sacramento CA 95814
Phone (916) 651-4010
Fax: (916) 327-2433
Senator.Figueroa@xxxxxxxxxx
Vice Chair Senator Bill Morrow R-38 Carlsbad
State Capitol, Room 4048
Sacramento CA 95814
Phone: (916) 651-4038
Fax: 916-446-7382
Senator.Morrow@xxxxxxxxxx
Senator Samuel Aanestad
Samuel Aanestad (R-4) Grass Valley
State Capitol, Room 2054
Sacramento CA 95814
Phone: 916-651-4004
Fax: 916916-445-7750
Senator.Aanestad@xxxxxxxxxx
http://republican.sen.ca.gov/web/4/feed.asp
Senator Dean Florez (D-16) Fresno
State Capitol, Room 5061
Sacramento CA 95814
Phone (916) 651-4016
Fax: (916) 327-5989
Senator.Florez@xxxxxxxxxx
Senator Joe Simitian (D-11) Palo Alto
State Capitol Room 4062
Sacramento CA 95814
Phone: (916) 651-4011
Fax: (916) 323-4529
Senator.Simitian@xxxxxxxxxx
AB 2862 AUTHOR:
Assemblyman Mark Ridley-Thomas (D-48) Los Angeles
State Capitol
P.O. Box 942849
Sacramento, CA 94249-0048
(916) 319 - 2048
Fax: (916) 319 - 2148
Assemblymember.Ridley-Thomas@xxxxxxxxxx
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Ginger Cleary, Rome, GA
Proud member GSDCA and Sawnee Mtn Kennel Club
www.rihadin.com
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