Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 05:52:21 -0800
Reply-To: Steve Holzman <steve_holzman@YAHOO.COM>
Sender: Georgia Birders Online <GABO-L@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU>
From: Steve Holzman <steve_holzman@YAHOO.COM>
Subject: Nongame Funding in Jeopardy
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Forwarded from the Georgia Wildlife Federation
Please ACT NOW!!! Money for barrier island shorebird protection,
money for songbird management on WMA's all are in jeopardy.
Subject: Mid-Night Politics for HB 653
Author: "jerrymc@gwf.org" <jerrymc@gwf.org> at ~INTERNET
Date: 2/16/1999 7:27 PM
My dear Friends and Associates:
Please know that this is surely the most important message you have
yet to receive from me. This message is to ask for your immediate help
(over night if possible) to prevent the resorption by the Georgia
General Assembly of the most successful nongame wildlife funding
proposal in the history of our
state. Most of you know that the money from the sale of the Georgia
Wildlife (Quail) auto tag now is dedicated by language contained in
the original authorizing legislation, and that money goes directly to
the
Nongame Wildlife Program in the Department of Natural Resources.
House Bill 653 simply deletes the language that dedicates the monies
from the sale of the Georgia Wildlife (Quail) auto tags so that the
money will
henceforth go directly back to the state treasury. It's very simple!
It just kills the funding for the Georgia Nongame Wildlife Program. To
date those sales have amounted to nearly $9 million for nongame
wildlife
programs.
The sponsors of HB 653 are powerful Chairmen of committees, Bob
Hanner, Bob Lane, Ralph Twiggs, and Bobby Parham. The fact that these
powerful men are
sponsors of a bill they introduced without one word to the public or
to any interest groups tells me they have wired the bill with the
momentum to go through the House and Senate like crap through a goose.
Immediate action is needed. In the next 24 hours, please take at least
the following actions:
1) Copy or rewrite this e-mail and send it to everyone on your
lists any where in the world. Ask folks outside Georgia to contact
their Georgia friends and relatives to oppose HB 653.
2) Ask all your associates to write five short letters or post
cards in opposition to HB 653. The message should be a very simple
opposition to HB 653 which destroys the funding for the Georgia
Nongame Wildlife Program funding.
3) The snail mail should go to the following persons:
a) Honorable Thomas B. Murphy
Speaker of the House
Room 332 CAP
State Capitol
Atlanta, Georgia 30334
b) Honorable Mark Taylor
Office of the Lt. Governor
State Capitol
Atlanta, Georgia 30334
c) Honorable Roy E. Barnes
Office of the Governor
State Capitol
Atlanta, Georgia 30334
d) Representative Bob Hanner, Chairman
House Natural Resources Committee
Room 220 CAP
State Capitol
Atlanta, Georgia 30334
e) Representative Bob Lane, Chairman
House Game, Fish and Parks Committee
Room 220 CAP
State Capitol
Atlanta, Georgia 30334
4) Georgia voters call your House and Senate member to voice
your opposition. Leave a message and be very clear about why you are
calling. Your message weighs just as much! Everybody call Chairmen
Hanner and Lane at the same number (404-656-5912) to voice
opposition. The same staff answer for both men.
5) Call your local newspaper editor and radio news director
and give them the story.
6) Get other wildlife enthusiasts to replicate this effort
ASAP. THIS IS NOT DRILL!!!
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