Please excuse the tedious sports jargon but with respect to our legislative effort, we are now really "coming together as a team to get the job done." Yesterday, Doug Rehman and Frank McCarthy made rounds to about 20 offices on the House side delivering letters that were obtained at the Centennial Convention booth. They brazenly asked at each office for a few minutes with the telecom staffer for the Congressperson and, startlingly, got about a 50% return on those requests! They made the substantive pitch for our Bill at more than 9 offices and got good responses from each. This is unheard of in my experience so *kudos* to Doug and Frank for that. The Keelen Group is in the process of distributing the hundreds of letters that we generated at the legislative booth at the Centennial. *A good predicate for followup visits.* Next week, both Mike Lisenco and Kay Craigie are coming to town to do meetings. Kay will do the important Subcommittee member meetings, including Anna Eshoo, the ranking minority member of the Communications and Technology Subcommittee, chaired by Greg Walden. We have every reason to believe that Eshoo will back us as she has done in the past. Mike has some good targets lined up and has had a *huge* return rate on his visits, so we are pounding the pavement next week before the break. During the August recess, Bill Hudzik will be visiting Rep. Frelinghuysen and Leonard Lance, who Mike and I met personally and briefed on the Bill last time Mike was in town. We need the rest of ODV to do the same kind of thing here. Don't let Mike and Doug and Kay and Bill do all of the heavy lifting. If you can't do these meetings at District offices in your divisions during the August recess personally, get your field organization to do it and give them our talking points paper and a copy of the Bill. Here is why we need to pull out all the stops now: CAI, the Community Associations Institute, has issued a call to arms to its members. President Craigie was pondering how, politically, CAI could oppose "reasonable accommodation". We have found out the answer: CAI is just outright lying about our Bill. They refer to "towers and antennas" of course, but more ominously, they claim - falsely - that if the Bill passes, it would "invalidate community association rules and architectural standards" and that "homeowners who want to install a radio tower or antenna for amateur radio use would not have to go through the architectural review process or follow existing community guidelines." Both of those statements are patently untrue. They also claim that the bill would prevent all community associations from governing installation of ham towers and antennas. They have letters for HOAs to sign just as we have letters for our members. Frank has visited with Josh Baggett, the ham in Rep. Kinzinger's office. Josh has a meeting on Monday with representatives of Associa, an HOA management company with over 9000 HOAs in 31 states under its care. Associa will try to get Kinzinger to back off on the Bill. Josh said that Kinzinger will NOT back off on the Bill and that Josh will give Associa a tough meeting on Monday. But he asked us for some talking points to rebut arguments in a letter that Associa sent to Kinzinger. We are getting those to Josh via Frank today. So, that is where this stands now. This is your chance to get us some more cosponsors. We want 30 and we can get that many, before our savior Greg Walden makes the call to FCC. -- Christopher D. Imlay Booth, Freret & Imlay, LLC 14356 Cape May Road Silver Spring, Maryland 20904-6011 (301) 384-5525 telephone (301) 384-6384 facsimile W3KD@ARRL.ORG