No HR 669 at the Dixie Reptile Show

Well I had a rough start and missed out on a lot of the fun, because I had a sick child at home. (poor thing is still running a fever) I did make it for half of the show and dinner though, so I'm grateful for the time I was able to spend with some awesome friends!

First off a big thank you to Terry Heuring for allowing us to set up and help get the word out. We came across a lot of people who had not even heard about HR 669, so I'm excited we may have lit fires under a lot more supporters of our cause. I'm not exactly sure how many letters we were able to get mailed out, but it was a lot!!! My fingers got so cramped it hurt to hold the pen, so I took to talking and handing out flyers. Of course, then I talked so much that my throat hurt so I went back to addressing envelopes again. :giggle: I'm pretty sure we were all in pain with tingling, cramped fingers that were throbbing from all the paper cuts. :rolleyes: It was exhausting, and our group was awesome in their dedication!

Thanks again for all the work you guys did! I'm glad to have been a small part of it. :yes:

Here's our table and our activists at work!
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This pic is just for Shaun. :giggle:
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These weren't even all of the letters we did! We had another whole box to add to this! (unfortunately I had to go home to my kid, so I didn't get THAT pic)
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What a great weekend, and what awesome folks we had that dug their heels in and worked to make our campaign a success! Even though this was the most tiring thing I think we've all done (you don't realize just how long it takes to address over 1000 envelopes - by HAND!), it was also one of the most rewarding things we've done!

Tim will be shipping all these out tomorrow morning - thank you Tim! When Judy gets home, she'll have some pictures of "the end" of all of our efforts and show you just how much Tim has to ship out!

I think we can all agree that were thankful to have people like you guys on OUR side. Thanks for everything you all did for us.

Wow, what a fun and rewarding time, we had a blast. We got home about 3 pm, but really didn't want to leave Birmingham, we always have a great time. There was so much support for us at the show it was really awesome, the packets were signed in no time with more people coming to ask us if we had more to sign, so we started handing out flyers at that time, hopefully the nohr669 emails are building up from those flyers being passed out. Thanks again to Tim for taking the time and spending the money to get these letters on their way to Tom Wolfe and show these representatives just what we think of Hr669!

Hey Shaun, sorry we missed you this morning! We figured you guys needed your beauty rest, so we pulled out about 10:30 this morning! Glad to see you made it home safely!

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Hey Shaun, sorry we missed you this morning! We figured you guys needed your beauty rest, so we pulled out about 10:30 this morning! Glad to see you made it home safely!

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Yeah, we got to sleep about 3 am this morning, so we leave the hotel til about 11:30 am, but it was worth it, fun times!! Glad you guys made it home safe as well!

Strong work, :salute:


dr del

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Originally Posted by PrototypePythons

Yeah, we got to sleep about 3 am this morning, so we leave the hotel til about 11:30 am, but it was worth it, fun times!! Glad you guys made it home safe as well!

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Don't forget to post pictures of your new addition! :gj:

That's awesome!!

I wish I could have made it to be a part of that effort. Great job guys!! :gj:

I finally got home around 2. The night was fun, Hopefully I was entertaining enough to be considered a help.

You all did a fantastic job, great work, hopefully we can keep it up.

You guys & gals are all ROCK STARS!!!! :bow: :bow: :bow: What a tremendous effort & such a labor of love! Thank you all so much for aiding in the fight against HR669...kick butt!!! :D :gj: :banana: :salute: :bow:

Keep the efforts up everybody! I'm seriously impressed with you guys who are filling these hundreds and thousands of letters.

It is the only thing that might keep this bill from being passed.

I have to agree with everyone else, GREAT WORK!!! Thanks for the dedication and willingness to go the extra mile. We are doing what we can here as well. Talking to EVERYONE about this bill and trying to get it KILLED like it should be.

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That's awesome!!

I wish I could have made it to be a part of that effort. Great job guys!! :gj:

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We would have loved if you could have been here too!

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I finally got home around 2. The night was fun, Hopefully I was entertaining enough to be considered a help.

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It was great to meet you and Catherine, David! Thank you for coming and sharing a couple of your snakes with us!

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You all did a fantastic job, great work, hopefully we can keep it up.

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Thank you!

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You guys & gals are all ROCK STARS!!!! :bow: :bow: :bow: What a tremendous effort & such a labor of love! Thank you all so much for aiding in the fight against HR669...kick butt!!! :D :gj: :banana: :salute: :bow:

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Kara, we were inspired by you and what you've been doing at Zoo Creatures! It was a very rewarding experience, even when we were all moaning over hand cramps and looking at the stacks still left to do! LOL

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Originally Posted by mainbutter

Keep the efforts up everybody! I'm seriously impressed with you guys who are filling these hundreds and thousands of letters.

It is the only thing that might keep this bill from being passed.

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Thanks!

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I have to agree with everyone else, GREAT WORK!!! Thanks for the dedication and willingness to go the extra mile. We are doing what we can here as well. Talking to EVERYONE about this bill and trying to get it KILLED like it should be.

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Thank you - it was the LEAST we could do, since we were going to be at the show anyway! One of the best weekends we've had as a group!

That's just amazing! You guys rock!!!

Thanks for the pictures, Christie!

Here's a few of the final sort. I believe our final tally was 988 letters, give or take.

Thank you to ALL you guys who stepped in and gave your time (and risked carple-tunnel syndrom!) to help us get this done! You all ROCK! I can't wait to hear what the final tally of this letter campaign is...from people all over the country!

Sorting into stacks for each congressman...
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Monica (in red) and my daughter, Petra (in black)
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Crammed into boxes for the next leg of their journey
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Great Job guys, appreciate all the efforts you put into the fight. Those are A LOT of envelopes :)

looks like you guys had a busy weekend!!

good job!

Guys it looked like you did a great job! I'm proud to say I'm a member here and ever more ashamed I couldn't make it to help out...Even if Tim and Sean descided to bust my chops over the safty of the phone... LOL

Again just one more reason BP.net is head and sholders above the rest.

Great job :gj:.We all thank you for every envelope you sent out :cool:

Still don't see any photos of critters from the show!

I wish I could have been there with you guys! :( Hopefully next time!

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Still don't see any photos of critters from the show!

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There were animals at the show? :confuse:

I do remember the hotties you brought, and I do have a couple pics of those.

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I wish I could have been there with you guys! :( Hopefully next time!

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We wish you could have made it too. You better be there next time for sure... with bells on. ;)

Also a HUGE thanks to Tim and Monica for covering the costs on the shipping and getting them out. I can't believe I left that out. :ohmygod: THANK YOU!!!!!!

and I do have a couple pics of those

where are they! :D

I just wanted to let eveyone know that the 22 lb. box of letters went out this morning at 10:30 via FedEx, bound for Tom Wolf. As usual, we had a great time at the show, and sne many thanks to all that signed letters, and of course, to all who folded, stuffed, wrote, wrote some more, organized and packaged up all of that hard work.

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and I do have a couple pics of those

where are they! :D

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My fave :love:
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Thanks to everyone who did so much work at this show getting the word out and getting those letters on their way to Tom Wolfe!