I did go ahead and sign the petition, but my experience has been that petitions such as this generally have very little impact. On statewide issue such as this one, state legislators are much more likely to listen to their own constituents from their own districts. After all, those are the people who have elected them and whom they represent. Petitions signed by people from all over the country or world along with phone calls and letters from people who do not live in the state usually carry very little weight with them. A national organization IF it demonstrates that it has a sizable membership that it represents from that particular state would have a chance of being effective but mostly what is needed is for the people who live in those legislators' home districts to get off their duffs and write, call and meet face to face with their own legislators.
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Gerald Keown

Southwestern Center for Herpetological Research

www.southwesternherp.com

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