Hello everyone,
Jan Goldsmith will be at Pete's Harbor tomorrow (today if you're reading the
FML) Thursday, July 17th between 4:00 P.M. and 5:00 P.M. (possibly until
6:00 I'm told) to meet people from the San Mateo area and to discuss
unlawful taxes imposed by the state. Pete's Harbor is at the end of the
Whipple exit off 101 on the east side of the freeway in Redwood City. It's
pretty much the main building on that side and you can't miss it. Jan is
running for State Treasurer and anyone from this area should come and
support him. I don't believe there is any charge for the event. Please
come by if you can because he is terrific and deserves our support!
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WWPSA and Marshall Pet Products (Marshall's purchased their usual two booth
and were given one free by WWPSA) donated a booth to Californians for Ferret
Legalization at the summer pet trade show in Long Beach, CA where Melissa
and the very organized Debbie Andelin worked wonders to get between 75-100
people and stores connected to the ferretnews pipeline.
Debbie and Melissa helped CFL at the Pet Expo booth back in April where we
were swamped. Debbie came away knowing that a better, faster system for
giving out our WANTED posters customized to Senate and Assembly districts
was needed. She took the time to make originals with each of the 40 Senate
districts coded by Senate numbers and made several copies of each.
Interested parties gave their zip codes, we looked up the Senate district
number and were able to hand them a pre-addressed poster in probably 1/5 the
time it took before. Each poster also has the Governor's address.
Show attendees were given "dailies" by Pet Product News and CFL's booth was
highlighted two out of the three days! Pet Talk America, a radio show
hosted by Bob Vella, asked me to do a show live from the floor in both their
national and regional markets and the national radio show Talking Pets,
hosted by John Patch, gave the ferret issue over 1/2 hour and interviewed
myself and veterinarian Dawn Thomas from Santa Barbara. Dawn has given this
issue lots of publicity and support and was very helpful in getting Senator
Jack O'Connell to change his no vote to a yes.
Among the staff at Marshall's booth was Pete Reid, whom I'd met many times
before and like very much. Marshall's sent any and all interested ferret
enthusiasts to our booth were we informed them about the progress of the
bill and the name and address of their State Senator. At some point I
kidded Peter about how much money CFL had received (I was told there was
something on the FML inferring that we'd received support from MF-- I don't
know if the kind of support was described as financial or emotional) and he
reminded me that he'd given several thousand dollars to CDFA in the past and
I know CDFA did receive at least $1,000.00 because I asked for it and they
sent it. CFL would love to get that kind of donation from Marshall's but
they are currently spending quite a sum on a huge lawsuit in California and
it didn't occur to me to ask-- Peter did donate 25.00 for 5 of our beautiful
AB 363 buttons with our spokesferret Moosephat in his jailhouse outfit.
Three of them were given back to me to resell, so that comes to $35.00. The
value of the booth is 1,300.00 and it was donated to Marshall Pet Poducts
(MPP) who donated it to us. CFL thanks both MPP and WWPSA for their support
for the work we're doing out here. It may be hard to measure in dollars
because so far there aren't any, but support it is and we welcome it.
It still cost $344.50 for renting carpet (not an option), electricity,
tables and chairs. Shipping our materials to the show cost $156.00 one way
so I'm assuming that total will be around $300.00. Which means altogether
without my air fare it cost CFL $644.50 to attend the show. We raised just
over $300.00 from donations and sales of the buttons and 1997 calendars so
we're short some dough. Your help with this kind of expense is appreciated
because we reach so many via the pet stores that tell us, time and time
again, that they sell a lot of ferret products and have a big ferret
clientelle.
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For those of you whose Senator has already voted on SB 363, please take time
to write to Governor Wilson. I probably do not need to remind you but I
will anyway-- make those letters short, informative, and polite. His
address is:
Governor Pete Wilson
Governor's Office
State Capitol
Sacramento, CA 95814
Jeanne Carley
Californians for Ferret Legalization (CFL)
410 Mountain Home Road Woodside, CA 94062
(415) 851-3750 <[log in to unmask]>
http://www.ferretnews.org-- CFL Website
CALIFORNIANS, YOU CAN FIND OUT YOUR ASSEMBLYMEMBER AND STATE SENATOR BY
VISITING THIS SITE!! IT'S TIME TO CALL AND WRITE YOUR SENATOR--THE FIRST
COMMITTEE VOTE WILL HAPPEN SOON!
[Posted in FML issue 2005]
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