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keown
at Fri Mar 7 09:56:19 2008 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by keown ]
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. ----- Gerald Keown
Southwestern Center for Herpetological Research
www.southwesternherp.com
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- PLEASE SIGN THIS PETITION ....... - DawnOfTheDragon, Wed Mar 5 11:43:08 2008
- RE: PLEASE SIGN THIS PETITION ....... - Chris_McMartin, Wed Mar 5 21:20:49 2008
- RE: PLEASE SIGN THIS PETITION ....... - DawnOfTheDragon, Thu Mar 6 14:00:20 2008
- Done! - OHI, Thu Mar 6 14:54:10 2008
- RE: PLEASE SIGN THIS PETITION ....... - TimCole, Thu Mar 6 23:50:59 2008
- PIJAC can't do it all - OHI, Fri Mar 7 02:00:23 2008
- PIJAC was probably right in Texas - brhaco, Fri Mar 7 07:57:42 2008
RE: PLEASE SIGN THIS PETITION ....... - keown, Fri Mar 7 09:56:19 2008
- RE: Done! - jscrick, Fri Mar 7 11:42:04 2008
- RE: Done! - jpenney, Fri Mar 7 13:42:00 2008
- National Rec. Groups Not Good For All - OHI, Fri Mar 7 14:54:26 2008
- RE: National Rec. Groups Not Good For All - TexasReptiles, Fri Mar 7 15:46:00 2008
- RE: PLEASE SIGN THIS PETITION ....... - jscrick, Fri Mar 7 16:20:30 2008
- RE: National Rec. Groups Not Good For Al - brhaco, Fri Mar 7 16:57:49 2008
- RE: National Rec. Groups Not Good For Al - TimCole, Fri Mar 7 17:25:34 2008
- RE: PLEASE SIGN THIS PETITION ....... - DawnOfTheDragon, Fri Mar 7 17:46:11 2008
- This Man makes Sense !!!! - DawnOfTheDragon, Fri Mar 7 17:48:05 2008
- RE: National Rec. Groups Not Good For Al - jscrick, Fri Mar 7 18:25:51 2008
- Being Clear - OHI, Fri Mar 7 19:05:25 2008
- Perhaps you should start a petition..... - DawnOfTheDragon, Fri Mar 7 19:28:07 2008
- RE: Being Clear - brhaco, Fri Mar 7 20:21:52 2008
- "HERPOCRITES" - jscrick, Fri Mar 7 20:28:40 2008
- RE: Being Clear - jscrick, Fri Mar 7 20:41:51 2008
- RE: Being Clear - brhaco, Fri Mar 7 20:55:01 2008
- RE: Being Clear - jscrick, Fri Mar 7 21:06:04 2008
- RE: Being Clear - brhaco, Fri Mar 7 21:18:12 2008
- RE: Being Clear - luhrsreptiles, Fri Mar 7 23:14:03 2008
- Data skewing - OHI, Fri Mar 7 23:35:19 2008
- Agreed - brhaco, Sat Mar 8 06:01:32 2008
- RE: Agreed - TexasReptiles, Sat Mar 8 06:34:06 2008
- Nuissance turtles???hahaha - MadAxeMan, Sat Mar 8 08:04:35 2008
- RE: Agreed - TimCole, Sat Mar 8 09:41:37 2008
- RE: Agreed - Michael-DFW, Sat Mar 8 11:05:29 2008
- Box Turtle Propaganda - OHI, Sat Mar 8 14:25:14 2008
- RE: Box Turtle Propaganda - Michael-DFW, Sat Mar 8 15:12:55 2008
- RE: Data skewing - jpenney, Sat Mar 8 17:10:14 2008
- RE: Data skewing - OHI, Sat Mar 8 17:52:47 2008
- RE: Box Turtle Propaganda - runswithturtles, Sat Mar 8 21:45:20 2008
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