Game On!!!!

[browntrout]

http://www.alexander.senate.gov/publ...e-ad62f4be930a

Well it looks as if our message is being heard. A big shout out to Senator Alexander for his willingness to carry the torch for us. At the beginning I was afraid he wasnt that concerned. I believe this is only the start. Time to crank up the emails and calls another notch. Our voice is being heard.

I really think this is bigger than Delapp. In the military things come from the top down not the bottom up. Just need to get to the head of the stream. Hopefully that is what senator Alexander is going to do.

Roy

[SAMBOLIE]

Originally Posted by browntrout

http://www.alexander.senate.gov/publ...e-ad62f4be930a

Well it looks as if our message is being heard. A big shout out to Senator Alexander for his willingness to carry the torch for us. At the beginning I was afraid he wasnt that concerned. I believe this is only the start. Time to crank up the emails and calls another notch. Our voice is being heard.

I really think this is bigger than Delapp. In the military things come from the top down not the bottom up. Just need to get to the head of the stream. Hopefully that is what senator Alexander is going to do.

Roy

Just like Plumbing 101. $hit flows down hill.

[nofish]

Originally Posted by SAMBOLIE

Just like Plumbing 101. $hit flows down hill.

And don't bite your fingernails! couldn't help myself

[nofish]

Alexander and Whitfield are on it! From the sound of that article things are looking up. I hope Delapp gets his spanking from his daddy and gets brought back down to earth where everybody else lives.

[nofish]

It's still just as sickening today as it was when all of this first started that the government can just jump in and take something from us without any debate or good reason. They were forced to have meetings and it wasn't to hear what we have to say it was to tell us what they're going to do. How arrogant!!! They surely underestimated us Tennesseans and them boys from Kentucky. I wish my grandpa was still alive and had attended that meeting. Delapp would've had his buttocks handed to him.

[tkwalker]

Gents,


Governor Bill Haslam’s email address is bill.haslam@tn.gov . I‘d pass it forward to anyone in Tennessee with a dog in this hunt. Let’s encourage relentless input to every government official that could possibly make a difference. If your followers have written their congressional leaders or Gov. Bill, ask them to do it again. Share fresh thoughts on the subject with their congressman, senator, and governor, on a weekly basis until this issue is put to bed.


Writing a congressman or senator is as easy as entering the representatives name in the search engine of your choice, then follow the prompts to their web site, and their e-mail or contact information. The email to a congressman through their site is usually restricted to constituents from their district buy using zip codes as a filter. That’s not the case with U.S. Senators.



Another way to keep the issue in front of the politicians is to continue the media news cycles, both print and electronic. Encourage your followers to write editorials to their favorite newspapers. T.V. stations can be prompted to run more information, by going to the station’s web site, and follow the “contact us” dialog box, to a news desk / tips repository. Or/and, most station web sites will list their on-air personalities on a news team page. The reporter’s email address us usually there, and they welcome legitimate story input. Keep the message relevant, civil, to-the-point, and send it to anyone who may have an interest.



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From: raduty@comcast.net

Sent: Monday, February 11, 2013 10:46 AM

To: Bill Haslam

Subject: Corps River Closures






Dear Governor Haslam,



In recent weeks there has been a very vocal uprising against the Corps of Engineers plan to barricade boats from access to the tail-waters below the dams within the Corps’ Nashville district. This includes all 10 dams along the Cumberland River in Kentucky and Tennessee. The Corps cites compliance with a 17 year-old internal engineering order, and public safety as the rationale behind its $2.6 million project. Please note that since accident record keeping began on these waters decades ago, 6 of the dams in question have never had a boating related fatality. Where the few fatal accidents have occurred, all but one can be blamed on the failure to follow life jacket rules, and every one can be blamed on failure to exercise good judgment for the prevailing conditions.



At the behest of Senator Alexander, the Corps did hold a series of public information meetings in both states. But the Senator’s clearly worded missive was for the Corps leadership to listen to public input, and find some level of compromise toward conditions based restrictions, that would not completely close off these rich sport fisheries, thereby causing significant harm to the economies dependent upon the outdoor, travel, and tourism industries. However, in every public meeting held, the hosting Corps personnel made it implicitly clear that the meeting was a one-way information feed. That regardless of overwhelming dissenting opinion, “There is not a need for public comment”. [Nashville District Corps commander, Lt. Col. James DeLapp, December 13, 2012]



Senator Alexander has since been joined by 16 other federal legislators and a distinctly adamant Governor Steven Beshear, in calling for the Corps to back off, weigh the economic consequences, and find some level of compromise. On February 5, a contingent of bipartisan legislators, including Senator Alexander, Kentucky Senator Rand Paul, Congressmen Jim Cooper, Ed Whitfield and others met with Corps leadership in Washington, in an effort to agree on a course of action that would study alternatives to complete closure of the tail-waters under all conditions. Today, the Corps moves forward, thumbing their nose at civil authority.



Your office has been conspicuously quiet on this matter. Considering the media coverage by all of the Nashville T.V. stations, its difficult to image that you are unaware, or that so many other priorities supersede attention. The number 1 article on Senator Alexander’s Senate internet home page (link attached), is a direct copy of an opinion editorial the Senator wrote for Tennessee newspapers and was subsequently printed last week. I do hope that you’ll read the Senators editorial, call him to discuss the matter, then, as has Governor Beshear, lend your public support to the mission of stopping the Corps from choking off this vital economic asset.



Thank you for your leadership,


Richard (Rick) Duty

Gallatin

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