8 simple steps to stopping HR669! - Please send in your "NO HR669" letters.

This has been made as easy as it ever could be. There is NO reason why every person on this board can't send in letters. It will cost you at the max $5.00. Just think of what it will cost you if you sit around and do not send in your letters.

- Step 1.

"Cut and Paste" everything from this line to the next line into a word document.
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Subject: No on HR669

Dear Committee Member,

Please oppose HR669. It is a fundamentally flawed Bill written by a radical environmentalist group that seeks to end the ownership and trade of all non-native animals. There is not a shred of scientific evidence to justify the destruction of a Reptile Industry that leads the world in producing and exporting high quality captive bred reptiles. With the stroke of a pen thousands of small American family businesses would be bankrupted overnight. With no quantifiable benefits, what could be the justification to destroy a viable sector of the American economy in a time of hardship?

What will the additional drain on taxpayer dollars be to grow USFWS at unprecedented levels in order to destroy American small business? These are not the "Too big to fail" corporate titans, but small family businesses with their entire net worth wrapped up in their Reptile breeding projects and ancillary supporting businesses. A 3 billion dollar a year industry would be wiped out by HR669. Thousands of American families would suffer losing everything.

- Trade in Reptiles and ancillary businesses are estimated to be a 3 billion dollar a year industry.
- More than 9 million Reptiles are exported from the US annually.
- More than 11 million Reptiles are kept as pets in the US. That means 1 in 25 households have 1 or more Reptiles.
- The US accounts for 82% of the worldwide trade in Reptiles.
- At least 500,000 Americans would be negatively impacted by HR669. Thousands of small family businesses would be destroyed.
- There are approximately 4 million boas & pythons, as well as more than 7 million geckos, lizards turtles & other Reptiles in captivity in the US today.
- The United States Association of Reptile Keepers Opposes HR669.

Please oppose HR669! The costs to American Families would be enormous. The benefits are both questionable and non quantifiable. NO ON HR669.

Sincerely,



(erase this and input YOUR FULL NAME)

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STOP AT THE ABOVE LINE!!!!

- Step 2.
Print 22 of the above letters and SIGN THEM. Also be sure that your name and address is on each of those 22 letters themselves. It's important in case they are opened and read.

- Step 3.
Take 22 envelopes and write your FULL NAME and RETURN ADDRESS in the top left hand corner.

- Step 4.
Write one of the following 22 names on EACH envelope. Each envelope should only have 1 name per envelope. Write the name in the middle of the envelope.

- Madeleine Z. Bordallo (Ch)(NP-Guam)
- Henry Brown (R-SC) Ranking Republican
- Lois Capps (D-CA)
- William Cassidy (R-LA)
- Jason Chaffetz (R-UT)
- Donna M. Christensen (NP-Virgin Islands)
- Diana L. DeGette (D-CO)
- Eni F.H. Faleomavaega (NP � American Samoa)
- Jeff Flake (R-AZ)
- John Fleming (R-LA)
- Doc Hastings (R-WA)
- Dale E. Kildee (D-MI)
- Ronald James Kind (D-WI)
- Frank M. Kratovil, Jr. (D-MD)
- Douglas L. Lamborn (R-CO)
- Frank J. Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ)
- Pedro R. Pierluisi (NP-Puerto Rico)
- Nick Joe Rahall, II (D-WV)
- Gregorio Sablan (I- Mariana Islands)
- Carol Shea-Porter (D-NH)
- Robert J. Wittman (R-VA)
- Donald E. Young (R-AK)

- Step 5.
Put one of each of the signed letters into one of the envelopes and seal the envelope. You should now have 22 envelopes and each one should have your FULL NAME and RETURN ADDRESS in the top left corner, one of the above names, and a SIGNED letter inside.

- Step 6.
Put all 22 envelopes into a manila envelope and send the manila envelope with all 22 envelopes in it to the following address:

Tom Wolfe
6246 Lee Hwy
Arlington, VA 22205

- Step 7.
Follow this link and sign this petition:
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/usarkHR6311/?e

- Step 8.
Tell everyone you know to come to this page and do these 8 simple steps.


PLEASE SEND IN YOUR LETTERS.

I do not want to lose my right to keep and breed the reptiles I love.

WE HAVE TO STAND TOGETHER ON THIS!

Hi Greg,

Great post!

Also be sure that your name and address is on each of those 22 letters themselves ... it's important in case they are opened and read.

And, if you haven't contacted your own Congressman/woman, please take the time to email and call. If at all possible, try to arrange an in person meeting with either your Rep or someone on their staff this week while Congress is still out on spring break. They should be all in their home states until Thursday.

Meeting in person is 100% the most effective way to get through to them!

It's your Representatives job to stand up for your views on Capital Hill ... make them do their job by calling (every day), emailing (every day), and getting in to see them (sometimes this week)!

Thank you for your efforts!

-adam

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Originally Posted by Adam_Wysocki

Also be sure that your name and address is on each of those 22 letters themselves ... it's important in case they are opened and read.

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I tried editing my post and adding that into the 8 simple steps but it would not let me. If an admin could do so that would be great.

I have for the time being dedicated the front page of my website to this issue.

http://www.allproreptiles.com/

Printing 3rd round of letters as I'm typing this :)

Not being from the US I don't think my input/letters would be any use but if there is anything that non US citizens can do to help out please let me know.

Thanks
Tony

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Originally Posted by tonymul

Not being from the US I don't think my input/letters would be any use but if there is anything that non US citizens can do to help out please let me know.

Thanks
Tony

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I'm sure you could send emails, since if this passes y'all won't be getting any more snakes shipped from the US, so this will effect you also

I already put all letters in the manila and closed it, but I didn't hand sign all the letters

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I just typed my name and address on it; is this okay?

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Originally Posted by DutchHerp

I already put all letters in the manila and closed it, but I didn't hand sign all the letters

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I just typed my name and address on it; is this okay?

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Send more letters :) j/k did you put return addy on the envelopes?

My mom is a teacher and I'm going to see if she can get her little kids to write letters also...

Thanks for this. I was going to do something about it but didn't know where to start. I found out about this not too long ago. How can they think of banning almost everything herp lovers own. I will go get more stamps and envelops today.

Thanks for the help.

I feel the problem is that people don't know what to do to help. I truely think people want to help but just don't know what to do so they just say forget it and do nothing.

I'm working on putting together another tutorial on what else can be done with simple 1,2,3 steps.

By making it easy for people to know what to do NO one should have any excuse for not doing everything they can.

We as a community have the power to keep this great hobby alive.

I've even started getting the fish boards on this also. They're a lot of other hobbies (one being fish keeping) that will be effected by this. A lot of those people don't even know they're rights are under fire.

If you know anyone that keeps small mammals, birds, fish, any kind of non-native animals tell them about this page. Tell them they need to take action RIGHT NOW, not tomorrow.

Get your parents, friends, neighbors to send in letters. Or better yet print the letters for them and just have them sign the letters. Then just send them all in at one time.

I'll be sending in over 1000 letters, yes I said 1000 hopefully more. I have friends getting there friends on this. I'm going to just put them all in one big box and mail them in.

I'm trying to do my part. We need everyone to take this seriously. This is NOT a joke people. GET ON IT NOW!

I have 30 of these printing on letterhead as I type, to send to everyone on your list, as well as my state reps.

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Originally Posted by yotaman

I feel the problem is that people don't know what to do to help. I truely think people want to help but just don't know what to do so they just say forget it and do nothing.

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That's exactly why www.nohr669.com was started. Because so many people with birds, fish, small mammals, and reptiles want to help but just don't know what to do, or what to say, or how to get started.

www.nohr669.com has all kinds of ways for people to get involved as much as they feel comfortable with and have their voice heard on HR 669.

6,000+ people have joined up in the last 79 hours and DID SOMETHING to protect their pets ... we're on track to have some serious numbers in the next 10 days. It's only just begun.

Stand up, Stand Together, Be Heard .... www.nohr669.com

Everyones efforts are appreciated and NEEDED ... as long as your doing SOMETHING, you're helping!

Thanks!

-adam

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Originally Posted by llovelace

Send more letters :) j/k did you put return addy on the envelopes?

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Yeap, I put everything on there :)

I'll send more letters, probably.

Today I decided that many of the people I'm sending to the www.nohr669.com will stop at that, and not send physical letters. Why not?

Because it's 22 letters printed, stuffed into 22 envelopes, with each envelope having the congressperson's name, and their return address, then they have to put these into a manila envelope and address that with Tom Wolfe's address and mail it.

That sounds VERY daunting. It's not, it's about 5 minutes of time. But many won't do it.
So.. what do you do?
Tell you what I did.
I bought envelopes, and manila envelopes and went and had letters printed. I've begun putting the representatives named on the envelopes, and Tom Wolfe's addy on the manila envelopes.. and then you put together a kit.
One kit includes:
22 copies of the letter(please sign and insert into envelopes)
22 pre-filled out envelopes(please add return address)
1 pre-addressed manila envelope

The cost of ONE KIT = $2.73 which I'm fronting, so for FREE you too can save your pet's future!
I'm going to hand these kits to those that I think will NOT go the extra mile. Right now I have enough stuff to do 10 kits. Mine is already gone, one has been given to the local guy who will have all his folks replicate the kit and send their 22 letters in.
That's 8 more people who otherwise would not have sent physical letters in.
Dang it.. I'll fight it!

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Originally Posted by wolfy-hound

Dang it.. I'll fight it!

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Thank you. :bow:

I'm doing the same thing. But instead of sending the letters in a manila envelope I'm putting them in a box and sending them via FedEx.

I've footed the bill for 500 envelopes, paper and ink. Plus I've offered to pay the shipping cost to send the letters for anyone that will simply sign them and write there address on the envelopes.

Thanks to everyone for fighting the fight. :gj:

Done :gj:

http://i127.photobucket.com/albums/p...69/HR669_1.jpg

http://i127.photobucket.com/albums/p...69/HR669_2.jpg

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Originally Posted by Deborah

Done :gj:

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:gj: Thank you!

I have 66 so far. Lots more will be here Wednesday. I plain to ship them all out via FedEx Thursday. Should be there first thing Monday morning.

Deborah,

Would it be possible to send a mass email or PM to all members of Ball-Pythons.net? I know this Bulletin Board System has that feature. I've gotten a few fish boards to do that.

Who do I need to PM or email to make that happen?

What I find crazy is the fact that so many breeders and reptile sites have no banners or anything on them!

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Originally Posted by stormwulf133

What I find crazy is the fact that so many breeders and reptile sites have no banners or anything on them!

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If you have the time please email them and ask them to help out by posting a banner and doing the other needed things like: calling, emailing and sending letters.

It never hurts to tell someone about this over and over again. You'd be amazed by how many people just don't know about this still.

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Originally Posted by stormwulf133

What I find crazy is the fact that so many breeders and reptile sites have no banners or anything on them!

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A lot of people have been busy writing letters and making phone calls. Give them a few days to update their websites. I just got around to mine a few hours ago.
www.jwexotics.com

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Originally Posted by PythonWallace

A lot of people have been busy writing letters and making phone calls. Give them a few days to update their websites. I just got around to mine a few hours ago.
www.jwexotics.com

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Dude I love that avatar. :bow:

I sent out my 22 letters today in an envelope to Mr. Wolfe. I'm going to start calling next week as it gets to be within 3-4 days of the vote. I'm also doing the noHR669 website thing every day and I'm going to start calling my local congressman too. I love animals and I'm so sick and tired of these stupid "animal rights" groups trying to take away everything we love and cherish. Animal rights my foot, what are they going to do with all the millions of "illegal" pets we already have? Kill them all? Heck, the fact that it isn't even just reptiles really infuriates me. They're going to tell me that I can't go get a Parakeet for my daughter for absolutely no reason other than some idiots with money say I can't have one? I'll tell them where they can go...

This bill is so un-American it isn't even funny. One good thing though is that we also have the mega-chain stores on our side in this and they know for sure that if they let this pass then they are going to REALLY be hurting.

Thanks so much for this post! I'm going to mail out my letters tomorrow and encourage my friends to do the same.

So we don't need to put stamps on the individual letters?

If you send the packet to Tom Wolfe, the individual letters do not need stamps
He will hand deliver them.

I just recieved this email from USARK:

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Originally Posted by USARK

URGENT Reminder HR669

I am Happy to report that the REPTILE NATION has awoken!!! Hundreds of letters began to pour into Tom Wolfe's office yesterday. Keep it up we need thousands more. The sleeping Giant is awake and Leading the charge in OPPOSING HR669! But we need to keep the Giant awake and get him to deliver the death blow to HR669.

If you have written your letters to the Committee on Insular Affairs, Oceans & Wildlife opposing HR669... Thank you!!!-- now go get your friends and colleagues to do the same!

If you have NOT written your letters.... WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR!!!! We are running out of time. All letters need to be to Tom Wolfe's office by Tuesday April 21st. That means your final opportunity will be to OVERNIGHT a package to him NO LATER THAN MONDAY! Get it DONE!!!

ALL LETTERS MUST BE TO TOM WOLFE'S OFFICE BY TUESDAY APRIL 21st!!!!!

REMEMBER the 3 most effective way to influence the Subcommittee and Congress as a whole:

1. Personal appearances in Congressional offices.
2. Real Letters delivered in mass.
3. Phone Calls.

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ALL LETTERS MUST BE TO TOM WOLFE'S OFFICE BY TUESDAY APRIL 21st!!!!!

IF YOU ARE SLACKING AND HAVEN'T SENT YOUR LETTERS - STOP WHAT YOU ARE DOING RIGHT NOW AND SEND THEM!!!


We need these letters. It's a vital part of the fight in stopping this HR669 bill.

More info on getting those letters out!!!

http://nohr669.com/blog/?p=103

Lets keep making "big noise"!!!!!

-adam

I borrowed this image to show people this idea. If you have the ability to do it, the pink sticker is a good idea also.

http://nohr669.com/blog/wp-content/u...4/letters3.jpg

I really like the pink "NO HR669" sticker idea. I'll put them on all the letters I have.

No pink stickers.. but I wrote NO HR669 on each envelope. I just sent 198 letters more. Keep going guys!!!

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Originally Posted by wolfy-hound

No pink stickers.. but I wrote NO HR669 on each envelope. I just sent 198 letters more. Keep going guys!!!

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If you don't have pink stickers, you could use highlighter.

Here is a trick. Experiment with the pen you are using and the highlighter you are using on separate paper. Try using the pen first, or the highlighter first. I've experienced where the highlighter smears the pen making it illegible, and I've also had pens that won't write on top of the highlighter, so you sort of have to figure out which way works for the combination you are using.

13 EVEN BETTER STEPS TO STOPPING HR 669!

I talked to Andrew Wyatt from USARK.org tonight about a better way to get multiply packets of letters shipped out and this is what I came up with and have ran by him to make sure it would work.

If you want to help the cause even more you need to make up packets of 22 letters each.

Let's say you have 10 family members or 25 friends? I know you guys have family, and I know that a least a few of them have to love you. So, if they do YOU NEED THEM TO SIGN 22 LETTERS EACH.

Follow these steps to make this easy on you. I figure the easier I make this the more packets of letters you can have signed. Let's make your goal this.

Repeat after me: I WILL HAVE A LEAST 10 PEOPLE SIGN 22 LETTERS EACH BY THURSDAY.

If you care about this hobby at all you need to put this at the TOP OF YOUR PRIORITY LIST RIGHT NOW!!! I'm not trying to be mean but this is serious people.

What you will for this:

• 10 friends or family members that will sign 22 pieces of paper!
• 22 manila envelopes!
• 220 pieces of paper!
• some pens!
• a printer
• a love of this hobby
• you get the idea!!!!!!

- STEP 1!

Print 220 of the following letters. This is if you only want to do the bare minimum of 10 people.

CLICK HERE FOR A PRINTER FRIENDLY COPY OF THE BELOW LETTER. No PDF or WORD needed.

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Subject: No on HR669

Dear Committee Member,

Please oppose HR669. It is a fundamentally flawed Bill written by a radical environmentalist group that seeks to end the ownership and trade of all non-native animals. There is not a shred of scientific evidence to justify the destruction of a Reptile Industry that leads the world in producing and exporting high quality captive bred reptiles. With the stroke of a pen thousands of small American family businesses would be bankrupted overnight. With no quantifiable benefits, what could be the justification to destroy a viable sector of the American economy in a time of hardship?

What will the additional drain on taxpayer dollars be to grow USFWS at unprecedented levels in order to destroy American small business? These are not the "Too big to fail" corporate titans, but small family businesses with their entire net worth wrapped up in their Reptile breeding projects and ancillary supporting businesses. A 3 billion dollar a year industry would be wiped out by HR669. Thousands of American families would suffer losing everything.

- Trade in Reptiles and ancillary businesses are estimated to be a 3 billion dollar a year industry.
- More than 9 million Reptiles are exported from the US annually.
- More than 11 million Reptiles are kept as pets in the US. That means 1 in 25 households have 1 or more Reptiles.
- The US accounts for 82% of the worldwide trade in Reptiles.
- At least 500,000 Americans would be negatively impacted by HR669. Thousands of small family businesses would be destroyed.
- There are approximately 4 million boas & pythons, as well as more than 7 million geckos, lizards turtles & other Reptiles in captivity in the US today.
- The United States Association of Reptile Keepers Opposes HR669.

Please oppose HR669! The costs to American Families would be enormous. The benefits are both questionable and non quantifiable. NO ON HR669.

Sincerely,




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- STEP 2!

Make 10 stacks of 22 letters.

- STEP 3!

Find 10 people!

- STEP 4!

Have each of the 10 people sign one stack of 22 letters and write there FULL NAME and FULL RETURN ADDRESS under there signature on one piece of paper.

When you are done with this step you should have 220 letters that have been signed buy 10 different people and on the first page of each stack it should have there FULL NAME and FULL RETURN ADDRESS.

- STEP 5!

Now go home and write the persons FULL NAME and FULL RETURN ADDRESS on each of the other 21 letters they have signed.

This is the most pain part of the whole thing. You can handle it. I know you can. Let the force be with you reptile lover. Keep telling yourself it's for the good of the hobby I LOVE!

When you are done with the step you should have 10 stacks of paper. In each stack there should be 22 letters that have been signed by your friends of family members and you should have written there FULL NAME and FULL RETURN ADDRESS under it on each piece of paper.

- STEP 6!

Make 22 stacks on your floor.

- STEP 7!

Take one piece of paper out of each stack of your 22 letters and put it in 1 of your 22 stacks.

When you're done with this step you should have 22 stacks of papers on your floor and in each stack there should be 10 pieces of paper and on each piece of paper you should have a different signature with that person FULL NAME AND FULL RETURN ADDRESS under the signature.

- STEP 8!

Take the 22 stacks of 10 papers and put them in the 22 manila envelopes.

When you are done with this step you should have 22 manila envelopes and in each envelope you should have 10 pieces of paper signed by 10 different people.

- STEP 9!

Write one of the following 22 names on EACH manila envelope. Each manila envelope should only have 1 name per envelope. Write the name in the middle of the envelope.

- Madeleine Z. Bordallo (Ch)(NP-Guam)
- Henry Brown (R-SC) Ranking Republican
- Lois Capps (D-CA)
- William Cassidy (R-LA)
- Jason Chaffetz (R-UT)
- Donna M. Christensen (NP-Virgin Islands)
- Diana L. DeGette (D-CO)
- Eni F.H. Faleomavaega (NP ? American Samoa)
- Jeff Flake (R-AZ)
- John Fleming (R-LA)
- Doc Hastings (R-WA)
- Dale E. Kildee (D-MI)
- Ronald James Kind (D-WI)
- Frank M. Kratovil, Jr. (D-MD)
- Douglas L. Lamborn (R-CO)
- Frank J. Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ)
- Pedro R. Pierluisi (NP-Puerto Rico)
- Nick Joe Rahall, II (D-WV)
- Gregorio Sablan (I- Mariana Islands)
- Carol Shea-Porter (D-NH)
- Robert J. Wittman (R-VA)
- Donald E. Young (R-AK)

When you are done with this step you should have 22 manila envelopes with one of the above names written in the middle of each of the envelopes.

- STEP 10!

Write your (not theres) FULL NAME and FULL RETURN ADDRESS in the top left corner of each of the 22 manila envelopes.

- STEP 11!

Put all 22 manila envelopes in a box or shipping envelope.

You can go to USPS, FEDEX KINKOS, THE UPS STORE or any SHIPPING STORE and get something sturdy to put the 22 manila envelopes in.

When you are done with this step you should have all 22 manila envelops in a box or some kind of heavy duty envelope ready to ship.

- STEP 12!

Mail the box or heavy duty envelope with all 22 manila envelopes in it to the following address:

Tom Wolfe
6246 Lee Hwy
Arlington, VA 22205

- STEP 13!

Tell everyone else to make a promise to themselves to do this exact same thing.

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What you have now done is get 10 more people in on this fight that would not have had there voice heard.

You should now feel proud of yourself.

I just used 10 people as an example. If you have 100 people that will sign 22 letters for you. PLEASE GET THEM TO.

If you ship a box full of these via FedEx or UPS it will not cost you much more than you just sending a manila envelope with 22 letters in it. Plus you're saving money by not having to buy 100's of small white envelopes.

The people in the know feel that sending letters is the way to make the biggest impact. I'm not saying emails aren't good or calling is bad. I'm just saying, sending just emails or just calling will not win this fight. We need to bombard these people with letters. LOTS AND LOTS OF LETTERS PEOPLE!