04 Apr Sat 2009
Looking for co-sponsors: WI State Representative Scott Suder introduces a bill, AB 279, to make premises registration voluntary in Wisconsin.
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***ACTION ALERT***
WHAT: Bill to Make Premises Registration Voluntary in WI
State Representative Scott Suder (R-Abbotsford) has introduced at the state Assembly a bill, AB 279, to make premises registration voluntary in Wisconsin. The bill needs more cosponsors immediately and your support as it goes through the Assembly.
ACTION: Please call and fax your state representative immediately and ask him/her to cosponsor "AB 279, Voluntary Livestock Premises Registration."
Find your representative: http://www.legis.wisconsin.gov/w3asp/waml/waml.aspx
1. When you call, ask to speak to the representative or the legislative aide for agriculture. Form a positive relationship with the aide. Educate him or her about NAIS. Be RESPECTFUL and POLITE. Remember, who would the aide rather speak with, someone who is courteous or someone angry and resentful?
2. Please send this to everyone you know in Wisconsin.
NOTE: After the bill gets cosponsors, it goes to a subcommittee or committee. We need to call committee members as soon as it is assigned.
View the bill: http://www.wicfa.org/ (scroll down below the Mission Statement) and click on AB 279 Lobbying Packet, the bill is contained in the lobbying packet.
C.J. Cordell, President
Wisconsin Independent Consumers and Farmers Association
(715) 418-0424
Our purpose is to promote and preserve unregulated direct farmer-to-consumer trade
that fosters availability of locally grown or home-produced food products.
WICFA opposes any government funded or managed National Animal Identification System.
Clifford
11:37 PM CDT
Please support this bill even if you have been told by some other organization not to call your Assembly Person because AB 279 is stuck in committee. The bill is gaining co-sponsors. It is worth the five minutes out of your life that it would take to let your Assembly person know they should be supporting AB 279 and why mandatory premises registration is wrong for you. How are we going to beat back mandatory premises registration if we do not take an active role ourselves? Do not rely on others to advocate on your behalf.