Save Accss Feb 12-20 2010 Phone Call Campaign

[Basic Patrick]

Good Morning Friends:

Our UMS friends in Cape Hatteras need us to participate in a Telephone Campaign to Support S1557 which is legislation that will voids the consent decree and restore te previous interim management plan for Cape Hatteras National Seashore

Recently, Hatteras Islander Ryan Dawson was invited to brief a US Senate committe. Bottom line is that we need only two of the thirteen senators on the Energy and National Resources committee not yet committed to us to get the bill moved forward. This is not an opportunity that we can afford to lose.

Please pass this note on to everyone on your mailing list with the request to call each of these legislators over the course of Thursday and Friday. We'd also like to ask everyone to whom you forward this message to send it on to their friends. Please ask everyone to be especially sure to get through to the committee Chairman Jeff Bingham. We'd like everyone receiving this message and who's willing, to step up and commit to make the calls.

We really are close. We can get this bill passed before the start of our season. We really can help our friends and our neighbors save their businesses, their homes, and the futures of the children of the Outer Banks.

Suggestions:

Here is what you do……….. Call the number, and a secretary will answer. They will say "Senators whoever's office.

" You say something along these lines. Hi, I am calling in regards to the bill S1557 that is currently sitting in the senators committee (energy and natural resources) the bill is about re-opening America's beaches in Cape Hatteras NC. Give them time to respond. By stating the bill number and that it's in his/her committee, you automatically have your foot in the door. They are basically going to record that you're a yes vote. We really need the Senators's support for this bill. I know there are much larger issues in the country, but this is a time sensitive issue. If we don't have out beaches re-opened before the spring, then we are going to lose another season and millions of dollars. We aren't simply aren't going to make it, we won't survive. We need a hearing on the bill and have it passed as soon as possible. It's important to mention time and that it is a seasonal issue so that it can get bumped to the top of the list.

Feel free to add that an activist federal judge created the problem add that both of North Carolinas’ senators and the Outer Banks’ congressman support the bill.

When you talk to Mary, Debbie, Maria, and Mark (see list below) stress that the NPS is murdering hundreds of animals.

Mary L. Landrieu (LA) [phone]
Maria Cantwell (WA) [phone]

Debbie Stabenow (MI) [phone]
Mark Udall (CO) [phone]



When you talk to Bernard (Bernie) mention that you hope the senator will continue to protect civil liberties

Bernard Sanders (I) (VT) [phone]
Byron L. Dorgan (ND) [phone]
Ron Wyden (OR) [phone]
Tim Johnson (SD) [phone]
Robert Menendez (NJ) [phone]
Blanche Lincoln (AR) [phone]

Evan Bayh (IN) [phone]

Jeanne Shaheen (NH) [phone]


Make sure to thank them and we thank you

Posted by Patrick Paquette...MBBA BOD