No to HR669 or kiss your Bearded Dragons goodbye!

[diamc]

This thread needs to get back on topic. I would prefer NOT to lock this thread as it is certainly for a good cause. This subject has been posted about a lot on this forum but Ihaggerty1313 has just as much right as everyone else to bring this issue to our attention, although all of us agree that only 1 thread needed to be started regarding it which has been taken care of so that is in the past. Rather than locking it, editing the posts can certainly be done. So would appreciate it if everyone would refer to and follow the site policy printed above to help this thread run smoother instead of causing conflict.

 

[tklemerand]

This Bill will NOT pass......... We need to get all parties involved..... Please contact local Farmers as well, we Buy many of millions of dollars worth of their products....... I SAY NO to HR669

 

[mischa]

Can't we all just get along? comment edited by moderator

 

[Ihaggerty1313]

For those of you who are NOT USARK members (and if this was posted on another thread already.... ) here is a letter fresh over the wire from our President. I've personally donated a lot of time for this cause and anybody else who has been helping you all deserve a big UPS for this! Keep up the awesome work! We ain't gonna be beat! Time to knuckle up and take HR669 down. Join the USARK at http://www.usark.org keep up to date w/ HR669 at nohr669.com and don't forget that WE THE PEOPLE run this country. We hired em' and we'll fire them!

GREAT JOB GUYS!

-Ian

Full Court Press HR669!!

The Reptile Nation is a bunch of Grass Roots Warriors! The letter count now tops 40,000 letters. The phone calls have clogged the Congressional phone lines. We are the smallest constituent group and we have dwarfed the response of the pet industry and all the other affected industries combined. The Reptile Nation has turned Capitol Hill upside down with phone calls and buried them under an avalanche of letters!!!

We have been focused on the Subcommittee on Insular Affairs, Oceans & Wildlife.... because that is where the fight is! USARK has led the charge and the Reptile Nation has had an impact never seen before! Others may try and take credit for your victory when it comes, but no one can take this from those that have worked so hard to force the Subcommittee to take notice. It will belong to the Reptile Nation.

We are now in the 11th hour. I know that many of you have worked tirelessly to make this happen. You have my gratitude and respect. We need one more big push to KILL HR669. USARK will not compromise on this fundamentally flawed Bill. Our enemies at the Defenders of Wildlife have been so threatened by what we have done that they sent out a slick propaganda piece to influence the Subcommittee, but it is to little to late. They are doomed to be crushed under the weight of the Reptile Nation.

I need one more day of intense calling to Subcommittee offices. Get everyone you can think of to call and OPPOSE HR669. Call all day long. Overwhelm Capitol Hill again! They are unbelieving that we have been able to engineer this feat, and are destroying their Bill. MAKE YOUR CALLS!

With the Greatest Respect,

Andrew Wyatt

President USARK

 

[Ihaggerty1313]

BTW The Anderson Cooper 360 show did a piece on Burms invading Florida and the efforts to scoop them up. I told the little lady... Geesh you know we can't catch a break going into Thursday, until in studio he was holding a Ball Python and said ... "This ain't too bad?" NICE! However they tried to pass off Red Tail Boa's getting to 12+ feet... I'd like to see that RTB! Good luck finding one in the wild let alone in captivity. Even a BCO won't get that big. lol. Goes to show... Don't believe everything you see on TV! :mrgreen:

-Ian