<html aria-label="message body"><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">Hi All,,<br><div><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div><br></div><div>Thank you to all of you who have already done this. We have just over one week left in the scheduled legislative session for this year, so now is crunch time for our bill. If you have not contacted at least the first three people on this list, please take a few minutes to do so. If you have already contacted them, now is the time to contact them again if it has been a couple weeks or more since you last did so. Please also ask people you know to take a moment to help out as well. The more people who reach out, the better chance we have that this bill will be brought up for a vote, which is all we need to get it passed this year.</div><div>Thanks!</div><div>Helen<br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfMessage"><div>
<meta charset="UTF-8"><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div><br></div></div></div><div><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div>1. Contact your Senator</div><div>Most importantly reach out to your specific Senator, say you are their constituent, and tell them that HF2585 is important to you and ask them to please support its passage this session.</div><div><br></div><div class="replacingLayer noAjax fullPage grid_9 alpha omega" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 13px; float: left; width: 853.890625px;"><section class="grid_4_5 alpha" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 8.53125px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; float: left; width: 418.40625px; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><table style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; width: 418.40625px;"><tbody style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: middle; width: 167.359375px;">2. Contact the Senate majority leader<br>This is the person who sets the calendar for what votes happen when. We want to say that HF2585 is important to us and ask him to please schedule a vote on this bill as soon as possible.<br><table style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; width: 418.40625px;"><tbody style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></tr><tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: middle;"><label style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; float: right; text-align: right;">Majority Leader:</label></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: middle;"><a data-ga="91" data-pid="30547" href="https://www.legis.iowa.gov/legislators/legislator?ga=91&personID=30547" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 5px; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 66, 133);">Mike Klimesh</a></td></tr><tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-size: inherit; font-family: uictfonttextstylebody;">Email: </span><br style="font-size: inherit; font-family: uictfonttextstylebody;"><span style="font-size: inherit; font-family: uictfonttextstylebody;"><a href="mailto:mike.klimesh@legis.iowa.gov" target="_blank">mike.klimesh@legis.iowa.gov</a></span><br style="font-size: inherit; font-family: uictfonttextstylebody;"><br>3. Contact the bill\u2019s floor manager<br>If you\u2019ve already sent her an email thanking her, you do not need to email now. For everyone else, it\u2019s helpful for her to hear from as many different people as possible. We want to thank her for her support of the bill and tell her that the bill is important to us.<br><a href="https://www.legis.iowa.gov/legislators/legislator?ga=91&personID=37462" data-ga="91" data-pid="37462" aria-describedby="ui-id-35" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; cursor: pointer; color: rgb(255, 171, 44);">Kara Warme</a><br><br>4. Contact other leaders in the Senate</td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: middle;"><label style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; float: right; text-align: right;">We are contacting these other leaders to let them know that as Iowans this bill is important to us, since leaders in the Senate have influence.</label><label style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; float: right; text-align: right;"><table style="font-variant-caps: normal; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; width: 418.40625px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><tbody style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: middle;"><label style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; float: right; text-align: right;">President:</label></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: middle;"><a data-ga="91" data-pid="10729" href="https://www.legis.iowa.gov/legislators/legislator?ga=91&personID=10729" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 5px; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 66, 133);">Amy Sinclair</a></td></tr><tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: middle;"><label style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; float: right; text-align: right;">President Pro Tempore:</label></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: middle;"><a data-ga="91" data-pid="10731" href="https://www.legis.iowa.gov/legislators/legislator?ga=91&personID=10731" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 5px; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 66, 133);">Ken Rozenboom</a></td></tr></tbody></table></label></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: middle;"><table style="font-variant-caps: normal; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; width: 418.40625px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><tbody style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: middle;"><label style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; float: right; text-align: right;">Majority Whip:</label></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: middle;"><a data-ga="91" data-pid="10733" href="https://www.legis.iowa.gov/legislators/legislator?ga=91&personID=10733" aria-describedby="ui-id-7" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 5px; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 66, 133);">Dan Zumbach</a></td></tr><tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: middle;"><label style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; float: right; text-align: right;">Assistant Majority Leader:</label></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: middle;"><a data-ga="91" data-pid="31094" href="https://www.legis.iowa.gov/legislators/legislator?ga=91&personID=31094" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 5px; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 66, 133);">Adrian Dickey</a></td></tr><tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: middle;"><label style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; float: right; text-align: right;">Assistant Majority Leader:</label></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: middle;"><a data-ga="91" data-pid="34008" href="https://www.legis.iowa.gov/legislators/legislator?ga=91&personID=34008" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 5px; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 66, 133);">Lynn Evans</a></td></tr><tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: middle;"><label style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; float: right; text-align: right;">Assistant Majority Leader:</label></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: middle;"><a data-ga="91" data-pid="27001" href="https://www.legis.iowa.gov/legislators/legislator?ga=91&personID=27001" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 5px; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 66, 133);">Carrie Koelker</a></td></tr><tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: middle;"><label style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; float: right; text-align: right;">Assistant Majority Leader:</label></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: middle;"><a data-ga="91" data-pid="14812" href="https://www.legis.iowa.gov/legislators/legislator?ga=91&personID=14812" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 5px; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 66, 133);">Tim Kraayenbrink</a></td></tr><tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: middle;"><label style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; float: right; text-align: right;">Democratic Leader:</label></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: middle;"><a data-ga="91" data-pid="34011" href="https://www.legis.iowa.gov/legislators/legislator?ga=91&personID=34011" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 5px; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 66, 133);">Janice Weiner</a></td></tr><tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: middle;"><label style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; float: right; text-align: right;">Democratic Whip:</label></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: middle;"><a data-ga="91" data-pid="157" href="https://www.legis.iowa.gov/legislators/legislator?ga=91&personID=157" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 5px; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 66, 133);">William A. Dotzler</a></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></section></div><div><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div><br></div><div>If somehow you have enough time to contact the rest of our fifty Senators, feel free, but these are the ones to prioritize. Even if you only get to the first few names on this list, it\u2019s still helpful.</div><div>Helen Mejia, President</div>National Federation of the Blind<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>of Iowa<br>hmejia@nfbi.org<br>(570) 983-7867</div>
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