Have you contacted your local Assemblyman regarding AB 357?

[PonchoTA]

I remember some sort of statistic that, while these numbers are not the real ones, the ratios are real in their importance:

1 email = 20 voters
1 phone call = 2000 voters
1 letter = 20,000 voters.

I think they equated to the difficulty of a certain media of how many people actually DO it versus the number of people that actually feel that way.

These numbers might be off a bit, but the difference described is not.

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[wildhawker]

Here's the search page to find your Legislators: http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/yourleg.html

[Cru Jones]

I emailed already, will fax and write letters tomorrow. I got email responses from both, which I meant to keep but can't seem to find them now. Basically my Republican Senator said he fully supports AB 357 and a persons right to protect themselves and my Democrat Assemblywoman says "I'll take your thoughts into consideration."

[kap]

Yes. I have even asked and had others do the same.

[Window_Seat]

AB-357

BTT...

I thought I'd bring this back up to say that I just got done emailing the Public Safety Committee regarding AB-357.

Assembly member Warren Furutani's email got rejected, so I faxed him a letter. I will also send snail mail to each member this week.

Let's keep this thing alive!

(edited to add):
I contacted Assemblyman Steve Knight's office today, and his staff member told me that the bill will not have to go though a "double committee", meaning it will only have to go though the public safety committee.

Erik.

[fullrearview]

I sent an email but didn't get a response. Have you contacted your local assemblyman? If so, did you get into a discussion or get any response at all? Tell your story here!

And if you select, "I'm going to contact them tomorrow" than click HERE to find out who to call.

WTF!!!!!

I feel really dumb.... I had no idea that my assembly person was a libtard!!! they really need to draw new district lines!

[Librarian]

(edited to add):
I contacted Assemblyman Steve Knight's office today, and his staff member told me that the bill will not have to go though a "double committee", meaning it will only have to go though the public safety committee.

Erik.

Interesting; I guess it makes sense - it doesn't seem to add any state-required expenditure.

I'm not sure if that's good or bad. It would skip a bunch of known antis in the Appropriations committee, who could easily block it. But they're all in the whole Asembley as well, so it's not like they are entirely avoidable.

Thus, it's very important that we contact our own assembly persons, as well as the PS members. Work on the whole Assembly now.

[Window_Seat]

...Thus, it's very important that we contact our own assembly persons, as well as the PS members. Work on the whole Assembly now.

Agreed, and that is why I will be sending out a certified letter to Mr. Torrico. Certified letters might not be a bad idea, no?

Erik.

[Librarian]

Certified letters might not be a bad idea, no?

Erik.

I dunno. Probably ought to ask a staff person for a legislator. AFAIK all they really do is tally for/against, so I'm not sure that the extra $2.70 is going to get much return. I don't think any senior staff person signs for that stuff, so it isn't like someone's Chief of Staff will sign for 50 certified letters a day for a couple weeks and The Light Will Dawn. I bet that some staff person is even authorized to sign for 'Deliver to Addressee Only' mail.

A 'pro' bill person might bring in a pile of mail - 'see what the People are saying!...', an anti might do the same if there are letters in opposition.

[CCWFacts]

Don't bother with certified. It doesn't make it any more likely to be read by anyone higher up at the office. Save your X * $2.70 and donate it to the NRA.

[vladbutsky]

This thread was a final drop for me. I was planning to do it but somehow never had time for it. Just wrote letters for all memebers of the Public Safety Committee and to my representative. Goingto send them tomorrow

[Bruce3]

Interesting; I guess it makes sense - it doesn't seem to add any state-required expenditure.

I'm not sure if that's good or bad. It would skip a bunch of known antis in the Appropriations committee, who could easily block it. But they're all in the whole Asembley as well, so it's not like they are entirely avoidable.

Thus, it's very important that we contact our own assembly persons, as well as the PS members. Work on the whole Assembly now.

so all it has to do is pass the public safety committee it becomes law?

[andrewj]

Just curious, what are you actually stating in your letters?

[mblat]

so all it has to do is pass the public safety committee it becomes law?

no, but if this "one committee" thing is correct it will go in front of assembly where it will get slaughtered. Still that would be a huge progress, we would have to bring it back for several more years before it will have realistic chance of passing.
I have called, faxed and emailed. Sending letters tomorrow.

[Librarian]

In case you're into mailing list processing ...

Attached is a .csv (renamed to .txt so the forum software will accept it) of the Assembly Sacramento mailing addresses.

I bring it into Excel and save the doc as an .xls file. The .xls is both the header file (a1:g1) and the data file.

I then create a word doc with the mail merge features. Looks like

						Your name
						Your address
						Your city, state, zip
						March 17, 2009
Assemblymember «First» «Last»
«Line1» «Line2»
«City_State» «Zip»

Dear Assemblymember «Last»:

Your message….

                                                Very truly yours,

                                                (sign here)

                                                Your Name

I use a Mac; Mail Merge through Office is pretty similar on Windows, but I'm still on Office 2004, so it's pretty unlikely I can help much if you don't already know how to do this stuff.

But if you DO know, 80 simple letters individually addressed with matching envelopes is trivial, and you can do if..then..else logic to swap in text for really unique letters.

Have fun!


ETA: I just did the Sacramento addresses because I think the district addresses ought to be for actual constituents; the letters to the capitol also get to the folks sooner when the Assembly is in session. I'll do a similar one for the Senate Sacramento addresses sometime soon-ish.