The following is highly confidential: To bolster Kay's point below, Mike Lisenco and so have recently heard from several offices that we visited that they would HAVE to hear from some constituents in order to go on the Bill. Telling the staffers that they have 2000 Hans in their districts is actually harmful rather than helpful if they haven't heard from any of them; the obvious inference is that the hams in the District do not attach much importance to the Bill. Yesterday Frank McCarthy from TKG and I visited MS Senator Welker's office about sponsoring our Bill in the Senate. We got a great reception but we're told we have to get letters sent to the Senator from MS hams. Pronto. 73, Chris W3KD Sent from my iPhone
On Jun 10, 2015, at 8:12 AM, Kay Craigie <n3kn@verizon.net> wrote:
For a total of 72, co-sponsors added as of yesterday are
Flores - TX 17 McHenry - NC 10 Kuster - NH 2 Carney - DE At large Blackburn - TN 7 Salmon - AZ 5
Please encourage members to thank these Congressmen/women for their support of Amateur Radio.
The Delaware sign-on is memorable and not just because I used to be the Atlantic Division Director. The Section Manager and other locals have been working on the Congressman's staff for a while, according to a conversation I had with the SM at Dayton. What finally got the attention and eventually the co-sponsorship was constituent letters. Chris Imlay and Mike Lisenco delivered a stack of about 50 letters to the Congressman's Washington office, I think it was last week, and whaddya know? He signed on.
Fifty-ish letters is a lot to deliver in one bunch. It's even more impressive when you note that as of last month there were 467 ARRL members in Delaware. If we could get a similar percentage of ARRL members in a lot more districts to write their Congressmen, progress would accelerate. I know that many of you are working hard to encourage more letters. Delaware is an excellent example of how the letters actually make a difference.
73, Kay N3KN
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