[Njagdu] Fw: Legislative alert - please act now

[Vincent Chaney]

Joe,

Would you please have Bea forward this to all lists...

Vinny
Vincent Chaney Jr
NFB Diabetes Action Network (DAN) Board of Directors
NFBNJ Diabetes Division President 
NJAGDU (NFBNJ Association of Guide Dog Users) Division President
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Mail: vgc732 at optonline.net

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Ginger Kutsch 
To: 'New Jersey Association of Guide Dog Users' 
Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2011 3:26 PM
Subject: [Njagdu] Legislative alert - please act now


Hello all! Please act quickly -- we all need to do our part to get legislation passed that will protect our guide dogs from attacks and interference. Please see below for more details and feel free to share this message with friends, family and anyone else who lives in New Jersey!
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 Dear Seeing Eye Family, 

If you live in New Jersey, we need your help keeping Seeing Eye dogs and puppies safe from attacks and interference.

New Jersey Assembly Bill 832 and its companion, Senate Bill 1154, would make it a criminal offense for a person to harm a guide dog, and increase the penalties for harming police dogs and search and rescue dogs. These bills have stalled in committee and are in danger of not being heard or signed into law. 

Please call or email the chairs of the Assembly and Senate committees that are charged with hearing these bills and make your voices heard. It is important to urge them to add the bills to the schedule for the next possible hearing date, and to amend the bill by adding penalties for dog owners who allow their dogs to attack guide dogs and puppies.

Be sure to mention the bill number (A832 or S1154), your name and address, and one or two short paragraphs about who you are and why keeping Seeing Eye dogs & puppies safe is important to you. If you or someone you know has a guide dog or has raised a Seeing Eye puppy or experienced interference or attacks, include your experiences when you write your letter. It's crucial that our state officials understand the importance of Seeing Eye dogs and puppies.

　

For Assembly Bill A832 , contact: 

The Honorable Nelson T. Albano

Chairman, Assembly Agricultural and Natural Resources Committee

21 North Main Street

Cape May Court House, NJ 08210

Phone: (908) 624-0880

Email: AsmAlbano at njleg.org 

For Senate Bill S1154, contact: 

The Honorable Raymond J. Lesniak

Chairman, Senate Economic Growth Committee

985 Stuyvesant Ave. 

Union, NJ 07083

Phone: (908) 624-0880

Email: SenLesniak at njleg.org 

　

　

Another way to help is to forward this request to as many New Jersey residents as possible.

Please visit http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/2010/Bills/A1000/832_I1.HTM

<http://visitor.benchmarkemail.com/c/l?u=A9E96&e=9A031&c=FBD7&t=0&email=RnJX

GlEN9QAVNgzdJS%2F2qdelug7Ahz6CNyIeD9VsXLU%3D> to read the language for A832 and visit http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/2010/Bills/S1500/1154_I1.HTM

<http://visitor.benchmarkemail.com/c/l?u=A9E97&e=9A031&c=FBD7&t=0&email=RnJX

GlEN9QAVNgzdJS%2F2qdelug7Ahz6CNyIeD9VsXLU%3D> to read the language for S1154. 

For more information about attacks on Seeing Eye dogs, please visit:

http://www.SeeingEye.org/protect

<http://visitor.benchmarkemail.com/c/l?u=A9E98&e=9A031&c=FBD7&t=0&email=RnJX

GlEN9QAVNgzdJS%2F2qdelug7Ahz6CNyIeD9VsXLU%3D> or email us at advocacy at seeingeye.org 

　

Sincerely, 

Jim Kutsch

President and Chief Executive Officer

The Seeing Eye, Inc.

www.SeeingEye.org

  


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