The LOHV seasons: Late spring and summer are for data-base building; autumn is for electioneering, winter is for lobbying.
  November is the time of year when the various chapters and affiliates of LOHV should start planning for the upcoming legislative lobbying action. The New State Chapter is no different.

In the 2010 legislative session, we have to finish the work in progress started in 2009.  In the 2009 session LOHV was 100% successful in getting our three bills out of their primary committees in the Assembly and ready for  a floor vote.  In the Senate, our bills got stuck in the EnCon Committee where they are now.

The main senators to focus on are the Senate sponsors and the chair of the EnCon committee,  Senator Antoine Thompson of Buffalo. (See below.)

As soon as the legislature resumes its session in January of 2010 we must resume lobbying to get our pending bills out of the Senate EnCon Committee.
Lobbying in Buffalo should start now!!

	Antoine Thompson, Chair of the Senate EnCon Committee District 60  includes the Cities of Niagara Falls and Buffalo

Senator José Serrano	Senator Carl Kruger	Senator Carl  Marcellino
District 28 Eastern Manhattan/Western Bronx	District 27 Southern Brooklyn	District 05 Northern Nassau County
Bill S05423 Home Rule for Trapping	Bill S03223 Canned Hunt	Bill S00845 Shooting Contests

We want to organize constituents within all of the above districts to start calling their senators at their home and Albany offices regarding those bills.  That means accessing listserves and mailing lists to target those constituents as  precisely as possible.
2010 is an election year for all of the above and they will respond to a groundswell of interest in our issues.  We will wordsmith the scripts to use and get them out there starting  the middle of January.

Hopefully we can brainstorm the idea during our phone conference.

We look forward to working with you on protective laws for animals!

Peter and Chico
 

NY Affiliates
Phone Conference

We will schedule a phone-conference for all affiliate heads and temporally unaffiliated members of the League of Humane Voters of New York State

The possible dates and times  would be:

Sunday November 28 7:00pm or
Sunday December 19, 7:00pm

Please notify Peter@LOHV.org regarding which date is best for you.

The agenda will deal primarily with the coming legislative session and our traditional Legislative Breakfast  tentatively scheduled for March 17th 2010, from 7:30 am through 3:30 pm

 

We are planning to put out this newsletter  monthly

We will include a section entitled:
News from the Affiliates

Please get your news items to me by the 15th of each month.

The newsletter will be published about seven to ten days later.

Please forward the newsletter to all interested parties.

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