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Thanks for the heads up John!

We went yesterday for a while. I thought it was great. I would much rather go to an expo that is outdoors than a indoor expo.

Remember to take advantage of Thursday - most legislators are off Friday's. Make those personal contacts with your representatives and contact the Governor's office asap. If you have already done this do it again - repeat contacts are okay and important to let them know how concerned you are. All the activity that has taken place this week shows we still have a lot of work to do. Keep reaching out to your friends and families to do the same. Stay diligent until they go home! Also show your support for the Game and Fish and the North American Wildlife Conservation Model by attending their expo this weekend! Spread the word. Actions speak.

That's not surprising if you consider board members, Outdoorsman owner, employee's and members that were at the meeting last Tuesday night.

A couple folks I know went to the capital yesterday... sounds like they had a heck of day and they asked me to remind everyone to stay diligent - to make their calls, send their letters and keep getting the word out. While there they ran into Gilstrap actively working the senate hallways - The SENATE hallway. They also spoke with a County Supervisor who is getting pressure by Gilstrap to support the HB2072 Concept. It seems this person had the same concerns we have - but it's important we work to make sure officials like him aren't led astray by Gilstrap.... County Supervisors interact with legislators on a regular basis so makes sense she is trying to connect folks to support her cause. Gilstrap is trying to leverage support from any political entity that she can. Please add your County Supervisors to your outreach activities. They also met with a Representative who opposes the Bill. This Rep said that they had received quite a few calls on both sides of the issue. This is another reminder to keep at it - we need to keep having our voices and concerns heard.

Christine and I will be there.

yes, she was there.

Your right no one raised a hand, Not even Suzanne Gilstrap!

Great job Craig, I just got off the phone with NOAA and was surprised to learn that Utah as a whole is not in a drought period.

Remember most legislators are off Friday's so take advantage of the one day left this week. If not already on the Green list - Call and ask your representative to meet with them if at all possible - get their position(I would be happy to join you if you would like). We must stay diligent until they go home!

Now is the key here! don't wait or we will all regret it.

Lynne Pancrazi will be at the meeting Thursday night. Please take the time to thank her for showing up, staying in town and supporting our side.

we gave them a copy of Ryan's report and added a few things. I can not figure out how to get it off our computer onto a post. I did however figure out how to receive your mass emails, one small step at a time. Mark

They never read any of the bills. They figure out which bills to support by how many votes they are likely to get or lose. The only thing that is important to a politician is getting re-elected enough times to qualify for pension and life long benefits. This is how Weiers got burned in the first place. By the way, we have invited him to the G&F meeting Thursday night.

Two Great Post! I would not be surprised if Thursday night someone from AZSFW is at the meeting handing out a new revised bill or fact sheet (full of more lies). If so I think we should tear it up and drop it at their feet.

Ryan, You need to add your name to the GREEN list. All the legislators have a copy of your report. Great work!

BuzzH, I wish you were a resident as well. Most of us are just shooting in the dark. We are working hard but not always in the most efficient way.

From: Suzanne Gilstrap Sent: Friday, March 16, 2012 11:17 AM To: John Koleszar ; shane stewart ; Bobby Boido ; gregstempe@yahoo.com ; target@citlink.net ; webmaster@anglersunited.org ; azwalleye@aol.com ; amessina1@cox.net ; jonwallace116@aol.com ; corona2000@cox.net ; wardsbuilders@q.com ; racefn@mindspring.com ; ffgreen@cox.net ; gilatrouttu@q.com ; carlschottel@gmail.com ; Alan Hamberlin ; Art Pearce ; Brad Remfry (ADBSS) ; Brian Pinney ; 'Charlie Kelly ' ; Don McDowell (BASS Federation) ; Jim Unmacht ; 'Joe Del Re' ; L. Gary Stinson ; Mark Nuessle ; 'Suzanne Gilstrap ' ; Todd J. Hulm Cc: 'Pete Cimellaro' ; Brian Dolan ; Chris Denham ; Randy Gaskill ; whays@eucha.net Gentlemen, You are invited to attend a special meeting to discuss HB 2072 and to gain input from organizations who belong to AZSFWC. In order to continue working the legislation this year, we need to make sure we understand any remaining concerns that AZSFWC’s member organizations may have. We are inviting the President of each of the AZSFWC organization members and asking that they invite two of their members to attend as well. If you have additional board members that want to attend, they are welcome. The meeting will be held at my office located in Phoenix on Tuesday, March 20 at 6PM.. The name of the office complex is and we are in the stand alone office building located at the far west end of the complex. Corporation”. My cell number is listed below if you have questions or need additional information Please rsvp to me via email at Suzanne@azcapitolconsultingaz.com so we know how many to expect at the meeting. Thank you, Suzanne Suzanne B. Gilstrap Capitol Consulting, LLC PO Box 13116 Phoenix, AZ 85002 602-390- (Cell) 602-712- (Office) NOTE NEW EMAIL AND WEBSITE suzanne@azcapitolconsulting.com http://www.azcapitolconsulting.com This is the email was forwarded to me today. You can see who was requested to be at the meeting tonight hosted by Gilstrap. If you know these folks, call them, e-mail them, etc. to let them know your stance. Find out what their stance is asap. Share with all you care about. (note: I removed the location of the meeting from this e-mail - this was the only modification).

I Just talked to Rick Gray from district 9. He told me he has been getting a lot of emails from supporters of this deal the last few days. That is one of the reasons he took the time to call me. We need to ramp this up right now!

Add Rick Gray district 9 to the green list. He is very much against this whole deal.

George I don't see the update. Can you provide a link?

Nope, Never received a thing. I'll make the change on my profile. I joined CW in 2004 and like a lot of people I would just check in every once and a while. Maybe ask or answer a question on the bowhunting portion. Thanks for setting up the mass emails, I really had no idea you were doing that. Mark

something like: Now might be a good time to check this portion of the forum as 2072 is still active, Please don't reply here. Not wanting to start a 20 page thread any place else. For example if the original post back in January would have been in the political discussions portion of our forum I would never have seen it. I feel like most people never would have seen it. I'm just wanting as much exposure has possible. But then again maybe at this time everyone should know to look here.

The last couple months were just a warm up! Now is the time to get active! Can we post something about this elsewhere on CW so that others will check in? We need everyone to understand that this is for real and will be pushed thru unless we are heard. Mark

I now have a much better understanding of why it has taken so long for the ADA to get their surveys out in the mail. The task of getting a survey together or in my case two letters and a few pages of pertinent data together should not be taken lightly. Like the ADA we chose to put our latest thoughts and opinions down on paper rather than an email. We were very lucky in that we only had about 120 letters to get out, where has the ADA needed to send out over 350. Now I will say up front that I did not do this alone. In fact after much hard work and research I was able to find a qualified assistant. This assistant worked tirelessly, and best of all for almost free. We started out early, even though my assistant wasn't to arrive till almost 7:00 a.m. First of all we needed to compose a couple letters. Lucky for me Christine is pretty good with words so this went well. We had our letters underway when our assistant showed up. That is when we hit our first snag, he insisted on breakfast before starting for the day. Well has it happened I was ready for him and breakfast went off with out a hitch. Back at the letters things moved along well. I must say letter writing was not my assistants forte either. But once again with Christine's help we pressed on. Has we were making the finishing touches on the letters it was discovered that we needed more envelopes. Well no problem I'll just send our assistant to the store. Well come to find out he had never bothered to apply for his drivers license. OK, I guess I'll be making a trip to the store. Back from the store I find out that Christine does have to work for a living and she is heading out. Lucky for me I convinced her to help me with some of the envelope addressing before she took off. And after all I've got my helper and I'm sure together we can get this thing done. It's now time to print off our letters and data sheets. This goes off without a problem so we head out to the UPS store to make some copies. I ask for 125 and a short time later I am out the door with my assistant and we are ready to get back to work. Now we get back home and start folding and stuffing envelopes. Let me just stop here and say for the record, This could have been the main reason for the ADA delayed mailing. This is very dangerous work! At one point I was thinking I would rather be assembling broadheads. Paper cuts are NO laughing matter in fact my assistant flat out refused to stuff envelopes! He went so far has to throw them thru-out the room. But I must say I couldn't really blame him. This is hard relentless work. I think we were both getting a little cranky, At one point he even mentioned heading to the kitchen for a drink? It wasn't even noon yet. Well about half way thru the folding and stuffing it became apparent that we did not get the 125 copies that I had asked for. So back to the UPS store we went. Again my helper refused to stay behind and keep working. Well we made it home and has luck would have it my daughter showed up and was able to give me a hand. Thank goodness because my assistant was so worn out he was beginning to cry like a baby and ask for daddy????? Finally about 1:30 we finished up and head out for the delivery. We chose to hand deliver our envelopes instead of mailing out like the ADA. So we jumped in the the truck for a drive down to the Capitol. By 3:00 pm our work was done for the day. We were both beat but more importantly we had a better understanding of what the ADA has been thru. My assistant has asked that I make this post in hopes that he can be of some help to someone else. Like I said he does work cheap and doesn't eat too much. Here is a photo of my assistant early in the process. A little later in the day, we were both thinking "boy this is a lot of work" At this point it was more like " Will this ever end?" And finally we are done and ready to hit the road! Now can we just relax in the grass for a little bit? Disclaimer: not intended to make fun of anyone other than myself,,,,and my assistant.