Just one day before three federal legislators joined in the Freedom to Fish Rally at Barkley Dam, 4 U.S. Senators and 6 Congressmen sent a very plain spoken letter to the Assistant Secretary of the Army (ASA) Jo-Ellen Darcy. They urged ASA Darcy's "immediate action" to delay the Corps of Engineers from implementing their plan to restrict fishing below the dams on the Cumberland. See the attached PDF file for the Congressional letter.
Senators to Darcy.pdf
Our Senators and Congressmen are working hard to stop the Corps. They have been quick to recognize that the volume of letters and calls to their offices is highly motivative, and they encourage more of the same. Consequences and compromise are of particular interest. Keep emailing, calling, writing or faxing the legislators. Tell them what will happen to our fishing, and its related commerse; and how we can make the tailwaters safer during heavy discharge, without barricading OUR river. Just as important, call or write the Office of the Governor, and ask him to announce the State's plan to protect our public assets from seizure by the Army.
“That Government being instituted for the common benefit, the doctrine of nonresistance against arbitrary power and oppression is absurd, slavish, and destructive of the good and happiness of mankind” [Article 1, section 2, Constitution of the State of Tennessee]
Congress to Corps Letter
