From: alra@governance.net Subject: These Congressmen Need Your Call Now! -- Here’s A Supporter List Too. Land Rights Network American Land Rights Association PO Box 400 – Battle Ground, WA 98604 Phone: 360-687-3087 – Fax: 360-687-2973 E-mail: alra@landrights.org or alra@governance.net Web Address: http://www.landrights.org Legislative Office: 507 Seward Square SE – Washington, DC 20003 These Congressmen Need Your Call Now! -- Here’s A Supporter List Too. Look Below To See Many Of the Groups Supporting The Pombo Bill (HR 3824) Find The Congressmen From Your State –Urge Them to VOTE YES on (HR 3824). They need to know you are watching closely and will hold them accountable. URGENT -- Ask them to VOTE NO on the Miller-Boehlert Substitute bill. Everyone, no matter where you live, should call and fax both George Miller (D-CA) and Sherwood Boehlert (R-NY) to tell them not to sabotage HR 3824. Boehlert can be called at (202) 225-3665. FAX: (202) 225-1891. George Miller can be called at (202) 225-2095 and faxed at (202) 225-5609 George Miller and Sherwood Boehlert are trying to destroy HR 3824 by eliminating property rights language. If your Congressman is not listed, call him or her to urge defeat of the Miller-Boehlert Substitute bill that will take out the property rights language from HR 3824. Any Congressman can be called at (202) 225-3121. See Action Items Below. The Vote on the House Floor about the Endangered Species Act is expected to take place on Thursday, September 29th. It could be delayed. The vote is not likely to occur until later in the day. Debate on the ESA could start in the morning on C-Span. It is critical that we know how your Congressman is going to vote or which way he or she is leaning. Please write us back and tell us either that your Congressman will vote yes, no or is leaning one way or the other. Just send a short e-mail to ccushman@landrights.org This is a remarkable time in history. It is your chance to actually try to improve and fix the Endangered Species Act. In 31 years, only 10 species have been recovered out of nearly 1,300 listed Threatened and Endangered Species. With a success rate of less than one percent, the ESA is not effective at saving threatened and endangered species. At the same time, the corresponding rules and regulations have, in many cases, strangled local economies, hurt businesses, farmers, landowners and Federal land users causing severe repercussions that impact everything from school funding to jobs to economic development — even hampering important environmental protections. We can do better. We can recover species while protecting landowners, businesses and our economy. The vote on the House floor affects you, your job, your community and the protection of Endangered Species. You have a chance to really make a difference. Don’t sit on the sidelines. If you have not been affected by the ESA yet, you will be. No is your chance to make a real difference. Your call could be the one that turns your Representative in favor of HR 3824. Action Items: -----1. Call your Congressman at (202) 225-3121. Urge him to vote yes on HR 3824. Urge to vote NO on the Miller-Boehlert Substitute that would take out the property rights protections. -----2. Put the Pressure on. Ask if your Congressman is going to vote for the Pombo ESA Bill (HR 3824). Send a short e-mail report back to American Land Rights to let us know what your Congressman or his staff are saying. Send it to: ccushman@landrights.org Tell us if he or she are voting yes or no, or leaning one way or the other. -----3. Call at least five of your friends to get them to make calls. -----4. Go to http://www.resourcescommittee.house.gov/ for complete copy of the bill, background and need, plus a section by section analysis. -----4. Forward this message as widely as possible. Here are the Members of Congress who are Undecided or Leaning No Look to see if your Congressman is on this list. You can call even if you live in the same state. Republicans: Biggert, Judy (IL) Bradley, Jeb (NH) Davis, Thomas (VA) Ehlers, Vernon (MI) English, Phillip (PA) Foley, Mark (FL) Frelinghuysen, Rodney (NJ) Gallegly, Elton (CA) Gerlach, Jim (PA) Hobson, David (OH) Inglis, Bob (SC) Johnson, Nancy (CT) Johnson, Tim (IL) Kelly, Sue (NY) Kolbe, Jim (AZ) Kuhl, John (NY) LaHood, Ray (IL) McCotter, Thaddeus (MI) McHugh, John (NY) Murphy, Timothy (PA) Paul, Ron (TX) Platts, Todd (PA) Schmidt, Jean (OH) Schwartz, Joe (MI) Simmons, Robert (CT) Turner, Michael (OH) Walsh, James (NY) Weldon, Curt (PA) Wolf, Frank (VA) Young, Bill (FL) Democrats: Barrow, John (GA) Boswell, Leonard (IA) Boucher, Rick (VA) Butterfield, GK (NC) Chandler, Ben (KY) Costello, Jerry (IL) Cuellar, Henry (TX) Dicks, Norman (WA) Etheridge, Bob (NC) Holden, Tim (PA) Hooley, Darlene (OR) Marshall, Jim (GA) Michaud, Michael (ME) Miller, Brad (NC) Mollohan, Alan (WV) Moore, Dennis (KS) Murtha, John (PA) Oberstar, James (NM) Pomeroy, Earl (ND) Skelton, Ike (MO) Spratt, John (SC) Stupak, Bart (MI)_ Jefferson, William (LA) TESRA (HR 3824) Supporters Advocacy Campaign Team for Mining Agricultural Retailers Association American Farm Bureau Federation American Forest & Paper Association American Forest Resource Council American Highway Users Alliance American Land Rights Association American Nursery & Landscape Association American Public Power Association Americans for Tax Reform Arizona Farm Bureau American Road and Transportation Builders Association Association of California Water Agencies Association of Consulting Foresters of America, Inc. Association of Pulp and Paper Workers Blue Ribbon Coalition CA Independent Petroleum Association California Alliance for Jobs California Building Industry Association California Business Properties Association California Cattlemen’s Association California Chamber of Commerce California Forestry Association California Mining Association California Natural Resources Group California Women for Agriculture Citizens For Florida's Waterways Coalition for Habitat Conservation Competitive Enterprise Institute Consulting Engineers and Land Surveyors of CA Coquille Indian Tribe (OR) Council of Republicans for Environmental Advocacy Crop Life America Defenders of Property Rights Domestic Petroleum Council Eastern Arizona Counties Organization Edison Electric Institute Elk Valley Rancheria (CA) Ewiiaapaayp (CA) Family Farm Alliance Florida Marine Contractors Association Forest Landowners Association Freedom Works Fur Commission USA Grassroots ESA Coalition Home Builders Association of N. California Imperial Irrigation District in Southern California International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers International Council of Shopping Centers International Wood Products Association Independent Petroleum Association of America Kern County Water Agency League of Private Property Voters Mid-West Electric Consumers Association Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians (MS) Mississippi Farm Bureau National Association of Conservation Districts National Agricultural Aviation Association National Association of Counties National Association of Home Builders National Association of Industrial and Office Properties National Association of Wheat Growers National Cattlemen’s Beef Association National Corn Growers Association National Cotton Council National Council of Farmer Cooperatives National Endangered Species Act Reform Coalition National Mining Association National Potato Council National Rural Electric Cooperative Association National Stone, Sand & Gravel Association National Water Resources Association National Marine Manufacturers Association Northwest Mining Association Off Road Business Association Okalahoma Wheat Growers Association Partnership for the West Property Rights Alliance Recreational Fishing Alliance Regional Council of Rural Counties Rosebud Sioux Tribe (SD) Sacramento Valley Landowners Association. Salt River Project San Diego Off-Road Coalition San Joaquin Farm Bureau Federation Small Business and Entrepreneurship Council Tehama-Colusa Canal Authority Texas Forestry Association The National Grange Of the Order of Patrons of Husbandry Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association, Inc. Tule River Indian Reservation (CA) United Desert Gateway United Fresh Fruit and Vegetable US Chamber of Commerce Western Business Roundtable Western Council of Industrial Workers 22 Sportsmen’s Conservation Organizations Please forward this message as widely as possible -- To unsubscribe from this mailing list; please visit http://governance.net and enter your email address.