Final Push for Stadium Bill- Write a Letter NOW!

Sent to all six senators. Everyone please do the same if you want to get out of Meadowlands!!

 

Sent my 6. Lets flood these pols with letters!

 

done.

come on people

 

Write, right now.

I wrote new (this is my second time around) letters to all six members first thing this morning at the office. It took me a whopping 15 minutes.

Write now, or you have little to gripe about if the bill doesn't get out of committee.

Where are our Political Commisars Blasito and Obie?

 

Done. Keeping fingers crossed.

 

Re: Write, right now.

Am I not allowed to work?

How sure are we about the 11/14 vote date? It first has to pass committee before the full Senate votes, but the bill has not yet been read for the Tourism Committee and they are not scheduled to meet again until 11/18. (Even then, they haven't released a legislative agenda for either the 14th or 18th.) By my count, the earliest that the full Senate can take it up is December 18th. What's going on that's different?

 

I wrote six letters! (a la the "I have two fillings!" commercial)

 

We should also write to the local newspapers - I'm guessing the Star-Ledger is a good place to start. Does anyone have some addresses to throw up on this thread?

 

Also, no other national team competing in this year's World Cup has as many home grown players developed in it's own domestic league as Major League Soccer.-- from metros letter to senators.

Why did they say that innacurate statement, thats so far from the truth its unbelievable. I want a stadium also but lets do it the honest way.

 

I just wrote 6 letters and got 2 others to do the same. A total of 18. Thanks for the Senator's names and addresses !

 

Done. It took minutes

 

First let's get through the committee.

Second, don't address a Senator as Assemblyman/Assemblywomen.

 

I'm not a Metro fan, but I'm certainly behind this project. I don't care what team it is, everyone needs a SSS. This is one time that Metro fans and United fans should help each other. We have a vote and I hope that some of you will help us a little. This would also be good for USMNT. I'm all for it!

 

If you haven't written the commitee yet, write to the committee. If you have, then address a random sampling of the Senators or Assemblymen/women.

Huh?

 

It has already passed the Assembly so additional letters should only go to Senators not Assemblymen/women.

 

Who gives a shite what you call them they arent going to care. All that matters is the content.

 

The latest information

November 14th in Trenton is the 1st major hurdel for the senate to pass the bill S1404. If majority votes tally Yea, It will procide to a 2nd vote on November 21st. If that is also a majority vote of Yea, IT'S TIME TO SHINE THOSE CEREMONIAL SHOVELS LADIES AND GENTLEMAN!

But if there is a majority of a Nay vote on November 14th, then the bill is officially dead.

So this is the official information of the Harrison stadium bill.

Make sure you triple send those letters. I did.

 

Help...

Ok, i am writing to the 6 senators listed... Are there any committee members in particular we should write to? There are too many of them to write to all...

 

If you are only going to send ONE letter, send it to Joseph Kyrillos of the Economic Growth, Agriculture and Tourism Committee:

Suite 303
One Arin Park Building
1715 Highway 35
Middletown, NJ 07748

Why Kyrillos? Because he's closest GOP member of the committee geographically to North Jersey and has shown a tendency to support these projects in the past. If the GOP puts up some resistance, he's the guy who could defect.

If you can bear to send a total of three, send them to Martha Bark (chairwoman of the cmte) and Leonard Connors. They're the other Republicans on the committee.

If you could find it in your heart to send two more to two other members, make it to our old buddy John Bennett, GOP Senate President, and Richard Codey, Democratic Senate President. They set the agenda for the entire Senate. If they both like a bill, it gets passed without any real debate.

This is not to say that you should contact Democratic committee members such as Raymond Lesniak, Nia Gill, or Joseph Vitale, or uber-Harrison supporter Bernie Kenny, but generally these people are our friends and shouldn't need the push that the others need to see the public support for this project.

 

One other thing -- if the 14th comes and goes without any word, don't panic. It is more likely that the vote will happen during the regularly-scheduled committee meeting on the 18th.

 

Is the general public allowed in to observe these committee votes? How about the senate vote on the 21st?

Is tailgating allowed?

 

ok, i am getting mixed signals here.... I am writing letters to all the senators mentioned in the previous post on this thread, but some people are saying that in order to get this to the senate, the project must first pass through a committee, which appears is made up of assemblymen/women...such as those here: http://www.metrostars.com/stadium/harrison/talkback.html
if this is the case, shouldn't we write also to them (or at least some of them)? Does anyone have a definitive answer?

 

Do NOT send letters to the Assemblypeople! It has already passed the Assembly, so to send letters to them is a complete waste of time. Write to Senators only.

Focus on the first six people (the Committee) on that link, or the 2-3 people who I list above. All of them are Senators. If you know your Senator, write to your Senator. If you don't, or do not live in NJ, write to the Senate leadership.

Here's the very simple timeline for the bill:

Vote in the Assembly Committee (done - passed!)
Vote in the full Assembly (done - passed!)
Vote in the Senate Committee (UP NEXT)
Vote in the full Senate
Governor signs it

Most of us (BillR4 excluded) believe that if it passes the Senate, McGreevey will sign it without any problems. Therefore, concern yourselves ONLY with the Senate.

 

Yes and yes.

Only if you bring extra beer for Lenny and Martha: