Illinois Reptile Letter Campaign and SPAM Filters

[ER12]

Some peoples letters to Illinois Senate Assignment Committee are being filtered out as spam. You can try to send the letters to email addresses individually. Cut and paste sample letter and emailaddresses below.

Senate Assignments Committee:
hsteans@senatedem.ila.gov
dharmon@senatedem.ila.gov
jclayborne@senatedem.ila.gov
klightford@senatedem.ila.gov
kdillard@senaterep.ila.gov
drighter@senaterep.ila.gov

Sample Letter:

Senator Steans and Committee Members,
As a resident/stakeholder in the Illinois reptile community I appreciate your concern for public safety. However, your proposed bill is far too over reaching in regards to reptiles. Illinois isalready highly regulated. Over-regulating harmless pets lacks common sense. Who ever assisted in the construction of the bill obviously doesn't understand the natural history or economics of reptilesin IL; nor their relatively simple captive husbandry requirements.Further, there seems to be no understanding of the difference between occupational hazard and public safetyrisk.
The reptile industry represents $30 million annually in commerce in Illinois. Thousands make their living in this State because of this business. To cavalierly destroy this non-traditionalagricultural interest because of a fundamental lack of understanding is unacceptable. As written, this bill will hurt me and my family. It is bad idea to kill jobs in this kind of economy.
Working with certain reptiles entails a moderate occupational risk, but historically and statistically, reptiles represent virtually zero public safetyrisk. Dogs account for 35 deaths a year in this country. Captive reptiles less than one per year. Traditional livestock and pets have proven much more of a public safety risk than reptiles.According to US Fish & Wildlife and US Geological Services studies, the rare event of a death as the result of a captive reptile falls into the category of occupational hazard. Thereis no record whatsoever of a captive reptile creating any measurable risk to the public... NEVER!
Please remove ALL reptiles from SB3264. Thank you.

[Dragoon]

Have you tried individually? did that work? failed for me

[zeion97]

Have you tried individually? did that work? failed for me

They're all blocked... PROVES IL is "corrupt"

Here's what the USARK posted.

Illinois Retile Ban SB3264

Emails to Senator Steans and the Assignments Committee have been bouncing. Please visit Senator Steans FB page and send her a firm polite message outlining your opposition to SB3264. There is a sample letter below; or you can write your own. DO IT NOW! SHARE!!!

Sample Letter: (CUT & PASTE)

Senator Steans and Committee Members,

As a resident/stakeholder in the Illinois reptile community I appreciate your concern for public safety. However, your proposed bill is far too over reaching in regards to reptiles. Illinois is already highly regulated. Over-regulating harmless pets lacks common sense. Who ever assisted in the construction of the bill obviously doesn't understand the natural history or economics of reptiles in IL; nor their relatively simple captive husbandry requirements.Further, there seems to be no understanding of the difference between occupational hazard and public safety risk.

The reptile industry represents $30 million annually in commerce in Illinois. Thousands make their living in this State because of this business. To cavalierly destroy this non-traditional agricultural interest because of a fundamental lack of understanding is unacceptable. As written, this bill will hurt me and my family. It is bad idea to kill jobs in this kind of economy.

Working with certain reptiles entails a moderate occupational risk, but historically and statistically, reptiles represent virtually zero public safety risk. Dogs account for 35 deaths a year in this country. Captive reptiles less than one per year. Traditional livestock and pets have proven much more of a public safety risk than reptiles. According to US Fish & Wildlife and US Geological Services studies, the rare event of a death as the result of a captive reptile falls into the category of occupational hazard. There is no record whatsoever of a captive reptile creating any measurable risk to the public... NEVER!

Please remove ALL reptiles from SB3264. Thank you.
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Someone posted in a comment to correct its grammar. I am not good with grammar so I will not... BUT yes.. it does need to be re-written it was hastely written

[WingedWolfPsion]

Doesn't prove Illinois is corrupt. Proves Illinois is computer illiterate.

[zeion97]

Doesn't prove Illinois is corrupt. Proves Illinois is computer illiterate.

*coughs..* Joke..... Look into IL's history to see what I meant by it.

[HighVoltageRoyals]

What is up with all the spam filters lately?! UGH!

We could just do all these letters snail mail --> I personally think that packs more of a punch because it shows that people took time out of their day, printed out a letter (or hand wrote it), put it in an envelope and sent it off. But that's just my 0.02 cents of course.

Can we get a list of their brick and mortar addresses posted on this thread?