MFI:60 with Kris Mineau - D-Day for the
Tuesday May 04, 2010 - 02:48 AM MFI President Kris Mineau updates supporters on the progress of the "Bathroom Bill" and this week's importance in the fight to stop it. Links are provided to TAKE ACTION.
Friends,
Thank you for your wonderful efforts these last 10 days after we discovered our opponents’ plans to sneak the “Bathroom Bill” into law as a budget amendment. It was your emails and your calls that made it happen for Speaker DeLeo to come out against the “Bathroom Bill” budget amendment and call for the bill to go through the proper legislative process.
But we are not out of the woods yet. This Friday, May 7, is the deadline for the Judiciary Committee to report bills out to the full House and Senate. The “Bathroom Bill” is one of the bills, and we must do everything we can do for the Committee to send this radical bill “back for further study.”
From the State House News Service:
DeLeo said he was taking members’ temperature regarding legislation aimed at extending transgender rights.
Derided as “the bathroom bill” because it would loosen access rules on public bathrooms, the measure has become an issue in the governor’s race, with both Republican Charles Baker and Independent Treasurer Timothy Cahill criticizing it, and Patrick supportive.
“I’m going to be talking to get a feel from the members on that, in terms of where we stand with it – do we want to bring it up, support, lack of support,” DeLeo said.
“It has such a large amount of co-sponsors. On the other hand, I think that the members right now are so focused on the economy, that I’m not sure how much deviation from that they want to see for the remainder of this budget cycle.”
Let’s make this the last time we need to take action on the “Bathroom Bill” this year!
Use the following links to make calls and send emails to the members of the Judiciary Committee, imploring them to put the flawed “Bathroom Bill” where it belongs by sending it “back for further study.” Remind them of the consequences in the public schools of Maine and Vermont when those states passed similar bills without studying their impact.
Thank you for your wonderful efforts these last 10 days after we discovered our opponents’ plans to sneak the “Bathroom Bill” into law as a budget amendment. It was your emails and your calls that made it happen for Speaker DeLeo to come out against the “Bathroom Bill” budget amendment and call for the bill to go through the proper legislative process.
