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- From: "Ginger Cleary" <cleary1414@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "Showgsd-L@Freelists. Org" <showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:10:08 -0400
Ginger Cleary - Rome, GA www.rihadin.com
"Laws against something 'that other guy' does will eventually get US because
we are all someone's 'other guy.' " Walt Hutchens,2007
-----Original Message-----
CROSSPOSTED
Two of us spent yesterday in Sacramento visiting the offices of every
person on the committee. We were successful at presenting our side in each
office. We were not able to talk to any of the committee members
personally, however, we did talk to many of their executive assistants and
legislative aides (who actually do the research on the bills) and we left a
well organized binder to support our views. The binder was a big hit. We
had several comments that this is the first piece of organized, factual
information they had received.
We are awesome on the faxes----each and every one of them MUST be counted
by some unlucky staff member. Emails don?t actually end up in the office of
the representatives, but are screened somewhere and a count provided to the
representative. We were standing by the fax machine in one office that
never stopped while we were there and the faxes were all OPPOSITION.
WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?
1. Tuesday, April 24, 9 a.m., room 447, the committee will meet to
vote on this bill. This is a vote only meeting, only Levine will speak and
he will present the latest changes to the bill only. In spite of the fact
we will not be able to refute his comments, we need to show our opposition
by physically being in Sacramento.
2. If the bill is approved it will go to the Appropriations
Committee. There would likely be only two people allowed to speak before
this committee and if they speak of anything beyond financial impact, they
will be discounted.
3. If the bill gets out of the Appropriations Committee it will go
to the Assembly Floor for vote. There will be no testimony before the
floor. Our job then becomes getting to each representative of every
district in California prior to the floor vote.
4. If the Assembly passes the bill, we will be starting all over
again with the Senate beginning with the Senate Business and Professional
Committee, then the Senate Appropriations Committee, then the Senate Floor.
5. Assuming the bill gets this far, we will then be dealing with
the Governor?s office.
6. And finally, if the Governor should sign this into law, we will
be walking the streets with petitions to make this an initiative on a ballot
so the people can vote.
BAD NEWS FROM LOS ANGELES
The City Council of Los Angeles voted in favor of mandatory spay and
neuter. Only ten people in opposition showed up. We?d better not let this
happen in Sacramento next Tuesday.
BAD NEWS FROM SACRAMENTO
From today's Sacramento Bee: Board of Supervisors for Sac County passed
this ordinance last nite; I have cut and pasted below part of the article:
Under the ordinance, the county's yearly registration fee for a dog or cat
that has not been spayed or neutered would increase from $30 to $150. The
fee for registering a fixed dog or cat would go from $10 to $15.
Show dogs and "working ranch dogs" might qualify for a lower unaltered
license fee of $45 under the county program.
The ordinance creates a $500 administrative fine for breeding an
unlicensed pet and allows medical exemptions from veterinarians.
The major difference between the city and county ordinances is that the
new city license for an unaltered cat would increase from $30 to $75 a year,
rather than the higher county fee.
The two local measures are among at least a half dozen nationally that
have been under discussion in recent months, according to press reports.
Meanwhile, California legislation requiring that pets be spayed or
neutered by 4 months of age has generated a massive response from both sides
of the debate.
More than 200 groups -- from Abyssinian Breeders International to the
Western States Police Canine Association -- registered their opposition by
the time the bill faced its first hearing on April 10. Another 200 groups
were lined up in support of Assembly Bill 1634, which is expected to face a
committee vote next week.
Proponents of the local measures and the state legislation say forcing (or
encouraging with big fees) people to spay or neuter their pets will result
in fewer pets being euthanized and lower costs to local governments.
"Spaying and neutering is the key to all this legislation," said Rick
Johnson, executive director of the Sacramento Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals. "That is the basis for all of this legislation -- to
stop the overwhelming number of animals coming into animal shelters."
ANOTHER ISSUE OF DISAPPOINTMENT
The California teachers are supporting AB1634. If any of you are
teachers, go to work on this. You will see that efforts in Fremont were
successful in getting the Fremont Police Department to retract their
support. It would be nice if the same could be accomplished with the
teachers.
LATEST REVISITON OF AB1634
The latest revision to AB1634 should be posted today. I have not had time
to go look at it but here are the links:
Date and Time of Update: Wed Apr 18 3:19:34 US/Pacific 2007
Legislative action has occurred on bill(s) you have subscribed to through
the California Legislative Counsel's web site
(http://www.leginfo.ca.gov)
or the California State Senate's web site (http://www.sen.ca.gov).
You can link to the Bill Documents page or to the specific page of
information that has been updated. If you cannot link from this
E-mail message, you can enter the URL on your Internet Browser.
AB 1634
http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/postquery?bill_number=ab_1634&sess=CUR&hou
se=B&search_type=email
STATUS
http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/07-08/bill/asm/ab_1601-1650/ab_1634_bill_20070
417_status.html
The official analysis of AB1634 will be published next Monday, April 23,
hopefully in the morning.
SOME GOOD NEWS:
The Fremont Police Department has retracted their support for AB 1634 and
has returned to a neutral stance. Both Tracy Rhine and Assemblymember
Torrico have been informed.
Thanks for your help! Laura Sanborn
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