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STOP the MANDATE to Remove Parental Authority from Motorcycling Parents - FAX Governor to VETO Senate No.2344 – Let’s FAX the Governor
We need you to send a fax TODAY to Governor Patrick requesting his VETO on Senate No. 2344, known as Ryan’s Bill. This bill needs to be vetoed by midnight, Sunday August 8th.
A FAX is the best way to alert the Governor: e-mails are not effective and it’s too late for a letter. If you have already sent a FAX, please send another!
Remember, even your computer has fax capabilities so you can fax via your computer using a land line plugged into the back of your P.C.
Send your FAX to: (617) 727-9725. No need for a long letter just be sure to:
- ask that Senate No. 2344 be vetoed immediately
- mention it’s too expensive to supply the demand and only financially benefits private industry rider education schools
- note that the current such a MANDATE removes parental authority setting a poor precedent.
- and close with the message that the Governor’s VETO on this bill WILL actually SAVE LIVES
DO NOT LET A GROUP OF WEENIES REPRESENTING ONLY APPROXIMATELY 665 MASS. RIDERS TRY TO RUN YOUR LIFE!!!!
FAX today and ask that Senate No. 2344 BE VETOED!!! DO IT TODAY!!!!
Be sure to include your name, town, and state information or else it will be ignored. You may use my message below as a layout to design your own
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Massachusetts Motorcyclists' Activists
PO Box 690044
Quincy, MA 02269-0044
FAX TO: Office of the Governor
617.727.9725
RE: Senate No. 2344
Date: August 8, 2010
From: William E Gannon, Quincy, Massachusetts
You’re Excellency,
Please veto and/or otherwise delay Senate No. 2344.
As a Motorcycle Rider Education Instructor for many years, and an experienced motorcycle operator since 1969, I do not support this bill at all. I could certainly give my children and grandchildren much better one-on-one training than any rider training school in Massachusetts.
I believe this bill removes parental authority over their choice of their childrens’ pursuit of a quality Motorcycle Rider Education experience. I do not believe Mandating such an experience is a rational enactment.
I further believe passing Senate No. 2344 will be a big mistake as neither the Commonwealth nor private industry teaching the course has the resources to enforce this enactment. The private industry supports enactment because it will force more potential students into their classrooms. Yet, a simple look at the Senior High School Rosters will show are simply not enough resources to handle the demand.
Furthermore many minors do not have the financial resources to afford the tuition. Consequently it will lead more minors riding motorcycles without the proper licensing and training and it will lead to the reverse of the goals for enacting same. We are already aware of the hazards on our roadways created by unlicensed motorcycle operators. Passage of Senate No. 2344 will only increase those hazards and should require further study before enactment.
We are the experienced Motorcycle Operators in Massachusetts. We know what is best when it comes to a quality motorcycling experience. Senate No. 2344 is NOT a quality motorcycling experience.
Thank you for your kind attention to this matter.
Genuinely,
William E. Gannon II
617.378.1562
RE: Senate No. 2344
Presented by:
An Act requiring adequate education relative to the proper safety and operation of a motorcycle for minors
3/23/2010 S Reported from the committee on Senate Committee on Ways and Means
3/23/2010 S New draft of S1894
3/23/2010 S Rules suspended
3/23/2010 S Substituted for S1894
3/23/2010 S Ordered to a third reading
3/25/2010 S Read third
3/25/2010 S Passed to be engrossed - 35 YEAS to 0 NAYS (See Senate Roll Call, No. 201)
3/29/2010 H Read; and referred to the House Committee On Ways and Means
6/7/2010 H Committee recommended ought to pass with amendments, striking out all after the enacting clause and inserting in place thereof the text contained in House document numbered 4727
6/7/2010 H Referred to the House Committee On Steering, Policy and Scheduling with the amendment pending
6/7/2010 H Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting for a second reading, with the amendments pending
6/9/2010 H Read second, amended (as recommended by the committee on Ways and Means) and ordered to a third reading
7/6/2010 H Read third and passed to be engrossed
7/28/2010 S Rules suspended
7/28/2010 S Senate concurred in the House amendment
