Where is the "Reptile Nation"?

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For those that haven't made the effort, how about instead of beating the drum of "You aren't doing enough", you posted the address to send letters to, the phone number for folks to call?

I bothered to look up the numbers etc. But if you want folks to help, make it easy on them! For HR669, I printed letters and addressed envelopes, and took the packs TO the people so they could also send letter in with a MINIMUM OF EFFORT.

Posting the address and phone numbers of the people who need to get the phone calls of protest would really help you get some results.

And.. for the record, when I called the office I was told that since I did not reside in California, they didn't really care about my opinion(condensed from the polite conversation). I did point out that when there was a large show in THEIR state, that I might come to the state, for the show(i.e. like Daytona, Tinley, etc) and that meant I spent quite a lot of money IN THEIR STATE, including taxes, food, hotels, flights, taxis, souviners, etc etc etc. They might(MIGHT) have grudgingly agreed that perhaps I would be affected by the regulations in their state, which is across the country from my home.

So in short, some folks have tried to do their best. So make it as easy as possible for many folks to help fight it.

It's up to the Governor now. Maybe he'll veto it (then let's see if the "Reptile Nation" crows about another victory) and maybe he won't.

Anyone who knows how to type "Google" then "CA AB 1122" could get all the information they needed to call, write, send smoke signals, semafore, etc.

It was nice of you to take up the fight even though you don't live here. Unfortunately, thousands of Californians could not be bothered to do the same(kinda reminds me of the LBJ quote about "sending American boys to do what Asian boys could do for themselves". ...).

In the time it takes to post here about how hot the new banana split spider spinner pewter hypo pastel queen bee looks, or to add the USARK banner to a sig, or to start some pointless poll - someone could have taken the time and the initiative to get off their rear and do what you did.

As for making it easy for people.............thanks for the suggestion but I'll pass. I've posted a couple of updates here on the progress of this Bill and it's not like we all shouldn't be on hyper-aware mode with all of the legislation coming at us. If people can't figure this crap out for themselves then they can face the consequences.

Not to sound crass, but I'm well off enough that I can afford whatever permits, special caging, etc. that I may need in the future to keep my animals and I don't make a habit of buying animals at Expos...............

...........but alot of people here and in the hobby do. Enough of us knew that this was coming and we could have made a bigger splash - heck it seems to have also fallen off of USARK's and PIJAC's radar.

We all knew this was coming. Anyone claiming they didn't take up the fight because they couldn't figure out who to call or write probably shouldn't even own a sea monkey, let alone a snake.

As for being crass - I take it back - it sounds crass and I'll leave it at that. I'm sick of people talking big and doing nothing. I'm sick of people posting rhetoric and then doing nothing. I'm sick of people doing nothing when the things that are important to them are threatened. I'm feeling mighty crass today........