Lautenberg-who gives a &%$# about you, response to e-mail

Write back. Remind him that you still have friends/relatives in NY and NJ, and you will be contacting every one of them to make sure that they tell all their friends about how unprincipled Lautenberg & Schumer are, and how they were mislead into making fools of themselves by a letter from the DoJ that contained outright falsehoods.

Then contact your friends and relatives in those states and start the ball rolling. I'll be talking with my sisters and mother in NY later this week. I'll ask that they tell their friends, and so on.

Don't waste your time. Lautenberg, the fine Senator from my state of New Jersey, is an old line major gun control liberal democrat. He is around 80 years old gazillion term ex-senator who was hauled out of retirement to run in place of the democrat's candidate who withdrew due to a scandal. He actually sent a detailed response to earlier letters/faxes that stated that he pretty much would vote in line with the ATF's policies regardless of what we said. I kind of wished at the time that I had gotten one of the non-committal responses that many of you got from your senators. He is, I believe, one of the reasons why New Jersey has the tightest gun laws in the nation. While I'm no politician or lobbyist, the money says he's not going to budge. Art T South Jersey Area Rocketry Society NAR# 34201 L1

It won't hurt to send him a hundred few emails to remind him of the opposition.

Randy

He has spam filters, like everyone. If it's not the right state, BAM, can'd response.

Joel. phx

More to the point, send an actual letter instead of email. Email is a lot easier to ignore without ever being read.

The only problem with that is that a regular paper letter can take up to

3-4 weeks to make it to the proper office. They are still shipping it around, scanning it, irradiating it, and generally delaying it.

For anything time-sensitive, paper mail is completely useless.

Send a FAX instead.

And you are suprised?

KMJK

nation.

Well, at least you live in a constant state of peace and quiet with no gun crime being committed.

Yes, that's sarcasam, Steve

You are correct, a fax is indeed the best approach.

Aloha Ray, You are correct. People should be letting their local branch of Lautenbergs party know their thoughts on this. This is not an issue for us to argue Dems vs Reps. Lautenberg is a Dem, we need to call out local Dems headquarters.

Take Care, Larry

Make sure he knows you'll be actively campaigning for his opposition.

Tom

I also sent an email to Lautenberg and received the out of state reply. I replied that I know many people in his state and I WILL be contacting them about voting for someone else in the next election and about making contibutions to anyone who runs against him. He will be defeated soon.

Karl Perry QUARK, Cincinnati, OH

Sounds like it's time to move those east coast launches and their local revenue generation out of NY and NJ.

Bob Kaplow NAR # 18L TRA # "Impeach the TRA BoD" >>> To reply, remove the TRABoD!

My experience is some members of the MDRA board who influence launches in the region have one position in private and a totally different position in public.

If the same is the case with the clubs in NY and with the recent club split drama there one can likely expect it, we should expect a series of the WRONG decisions and actions and in no way any decision to do what is best for rocketry as a whole.

My evidence of that is the dramatic reduction in rocketry participation in the past three years.

This in a timeframe where at least one vendor offered to more than double local participation (with a proven track record of success), was responded to with nothing but hate, file and FUD in reply.

It's time for independent (indy) launches. Contact me to become a focal point for local motion.

Jerry

Maybe it's time to re-think the action of hosting LDRS in NY next year. Doesn't make much sense hosting LDRS in a state that the reps are trying to shut down the hobby.

The only other highly unlikely, very slim chance, would be to get these no brains out to the range to do some LCO duty and actually learn what the hobby is about.

-Boomer

Can you imagine Senator Hillary Clinton doing check-in for 2 hours at "Large and Dangerous Rocket Ships" and checking in such gems as "Bruiser", Executioner", Flying Pyramid of Death", and "Gigantor Happy Meal"?

"The mind wanders".

Jerry

I did not attribute the quote.

I was quoting the little voice in my puny little head :)

Reread the imagry I wrote too.

You have one too? Does it tell you to blow up things with APCP?

Joel. phx

If it itches, scratch it. Just don't take it out.

I have been trying and failing for 40 years. My kid is on the path to his mission. He has a good 70 years ahead of him and I bet he fails too.