Bikers Of America, Know Your Rights!: CALIFORNIA - Urgent Request From Our Legislative Director 03 28 2015 ACTION NEEDED

Monday, March 30, 2015

CALIFORNIA - Urgent Request From Our Legislative Director 03 28 2015 ACTION NEEDED

OFF THE WIRE

I know you’ve been inundated with legislative requests recently, but please don’t delete this but rather take ACTION. We are a motorcycle rights organization after all! Please read the Legislative Director’s message below. You will probably just have to leave a message, so you can just read the very short message under SAMPLE LETTER. Simple enough. This should take under an hour to complete … time well spent!

After calling all the representatives on the Assembly Transportation Committee (see list at bottom), it would also be good to put a call into your representative. If you don’t know your Assembly Representatives, here’s a link that will find you the information based on where you live: http://findyourrep.legislature.ca.gov/ . We are fortunate that we have the Speaker of the Assembly in San Diego … Speaker Toni G. Atkins, District 78. Would be a good idea to call her, too, if she’s not your rep.

Here’s a California State Assembly District Map http://www.sdvote.com/voters/Eng/maps/Assembly_Handout_2010.pdf. Now you have all the information you should need to make a dozen calls and help the cause.

Thanks,

Urgent Request From Our Legislative Director 03 28 2015

March 28, 2015

Dear ABATE of California Members

AB 51 is coming to vote April 6 in the Assembly Transportation Committee.

As the bill is written, there will be a 30 MPH lane sharing limit, with a 10 MPH speed differential. Your ABATE PAC has voted to not support this bill in its current state. There have been attempts to negotiate different speed limits. Assembly Member Quirk has been waiting for the results of a traffic study to help determine and support modifications to the speed limits. However, the report has been delayed.

With the above in mind, I am requesting that all members contact the assembly transportation committee and the assembly members in your district requesting that they do not support AB51. Due to the time frame available please use the phone contacts provided below. Sporty said it took 30 minutes. Even on the weekend you can call these numbers and leave your message on their answering machines.

Below is a quick note that you can utilize. The Assembly Transportation committee member contact information is also below. Please do this by April 1.

I have contacted Jim Lombardo to also communicate the same position.

Thank you,

Chuck Pedersen

Legislative Director

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SAMPLE LETTER

Dear Assemblymember,

I request that you do not support AB51, the motorcycle lane splitting bill. The bill as currently written does not fully address rider safety within the stated speed limits. Further studies should be conducted to determine the effect lane splitting speed limits.

Thanks you for your attention to this matter

Full Name

Address

City, state, zip

Committee Members	District	Office & Contact Information
Jim Frazier (Chair)	Dem - 11	Contact Assembly Member Jim Frazier Capitol Office P.O. Box 942849, Room 3091, Sacramento, CA 94249-0011; (916) 319-2011
Katcho Achadjian (Vice Chair)	Rep - 35	Contact Assembly Member Katcho Achadjian Capitol Office P.O. Box 942849, Room 4098, Sacramento, CA 94249-0035; (916) 319-2035
Catharine B. Baker	Rep - 16	Contact Assembly Member Catharine B. Baker Capitol Office P.O. Box 942849, Room 4153, Sacramento, CA 94249-0016; (916) 319-2016
Richard Bloom	Dem - 50	Contact Assembly Member Richard Bloom Capitol Office P.O. Box 942849, Room 2003, Sacramento, CA 94249-0050; (916) 319-2050
Nora Campos	Dem - 27	Contact Assembly Member Nora Campos Capitol Office P.O. Box 942849, Room 4016, Sacramento, CA 94249-0027; (916) 319-2027
Kansen Chu	Dem - 25	Contact Assembly Member Kansen Chu Capitol Office P.O. Box 942849, Room 5175, Sacramento, CA 94249-0025; (916) 319-2025
Tom Daly	Dem - 69	Contact Assembly Member Tom Daly Capitol Office P.O. Box 942849, Room 3126, Sacramento, CA 94249-0069; (916) 319-2069
Bill Dodd	Dem - 04	Contact Assembly Member Bill Dodd Capitol Office P.O. Box 942849, Room 2137, Sacramento, CA 94249-0004; (916) 319-2004
Eduardo Garcia	Dem - 56	Contact Assembly Member Eduardo Garcia Capitol Office P.O. Box 942849, Room 4162, Sacramento, CA 94249-0056; (916) 319-2056
Jimmy Gomez	Dem - 51	Contact Assembly Member Jimmy Gomez Capitol Office P.O. Box 942849, Room 2114, Sacramento, CA 94249-0051; (916) 319-2051
Young O. Kim	Rep - 65	Contact Assembly Member Young O. Kim Capitol Office P.O. Box 942849, Room 4177, Sacramento, CA 94249-0065; (916) 319-2065
Eric Linder	Rep - 60	Contact Assembly Member Eric Linder Capitol Office P.O. Box 942849, Room 2016, Sacramento, CA 94249-0060; (916) 319-2060
Jose Medina	Dem - 61	Contact Assembly Member Jose Medina Capitol Office P.O. Box 942849, Room 5135, Sacramento, CA 94249-0061; (916) 319-2061
Melissa A. Melendez	Rep - 67	Contact Assembly Member Melissa A. Melendez Capitol Office P.O. Box 942849, Room 6031, Sacramento, CA 94249-0067; (916) 319-2067
Adrin Nazarian	Dem - 46	Contact Assembly Member Adrin Nazarian Capitol Office P.O. Box 942849, Room 4146, Sacramento, CA 94249-0046; (916) 319-2046
Patrick O'Donnell	Dem - 70	Contact Assembly Member Patrick O'Donnell Capitol Office P.O. Box 942849, Room 4166, Sacramento, CA 94249-0070; (916) 319-2070

Please do NOT respond directly to this email, it is NOT monitored for incoming messages. Please DO contact us at nick.benson@abate.org or carol@abate.org for questions or information.

Thank you for being an ABATE member!