URGENT: WE NEED YOU NOW.....AS IN TONIGHT!.......LAKE ACCESS BILL S987 A1047

[muskynut]

The following was forwarded to us from the NJ Outdoor Alliance:

Please email/call TONIGHT, THIS EVENING!!! Read the following and be active....we need you more than ever RIGHT NOW!!!!!

Fellow fishermen and women,

There is an Assembly voting session scheduled for tomorrow but A1047 will not be voted on! Why? Because the bill has not been heard nor passed out of the Environment and Solid Waste Committee!

NJOA’s John Rogalo and I met with A1047 bill primary sponsor Jay Webber last night to discuss the lack of movement. Jay pledged to meet with the chair of the Environment and Solid Waste Committee, Assemblyman James Kennedy, tomorrow to push for a committee hearing. A1047 will never be voted on until Kennedy and committee approve it!

If you want access to state owned and stocked lakes, now is the time (TODAY) to request the A1047 hearing in the Environment and Solid Waste Committee! Call (and fax) each of the Committee members and request they hear and vote on Lake Access Bill A1047. Don’t delay! This is how a bill gets moved!

Environment and Solid Waste Committee members:
Asm. James Kennedy, Chair – District 22 (Rahway area) - (732) 943-2660 - Fax: (732) 827-5916

Asm. Sterley Stanley, Vice-Chair - District 18 (E. Brunswick area) – (732)-875-3833 - Fax: (732) 253-5007

Asm. Donald Guardia - District 2 (Atlantic City area) - (609) 677-8266

Asw. Shama Haider – District 37 (Teaneck area) - (201) 928-0100

Asw. Bethanne McCarthy Patrick – District 3 (Woodstown area) - (856) 823-5516 - Fax: (856) 823-5496

Asm. John McKeon – District 27 (Madison area) - (973) 377-1606

Asm. Gerry Scharfenberger - District 13 (Middletown area) - (732) 856-9294 - Fax: (732) 856-9243


NJOA will also be publicizing this note.

For outdoor sports,

Captain Pete Grimbilas
Past Chair
New Jersey Outdoor Alliance
O: 973-696-1200
C: 973-454-0315
peterg@pcwfab.com

[Broad Bill]

Your efforts are to be absolutely applauded. Seems like you've been at this for over two years now. Government works at it's own pace and all too often not at all. It's sad a post titled "urgent" after all the work you've put into this for everyone's benefits five days ago has less than 200 views and zero replies when a post about carp from yesterday has the same amount of views and 2 replies.

Launch access at GWL is no different than the issue of public access everywhere in New Jersey which the public has been taking it on the chin for decades now. If you prevail in your initiative at GWL, we'll have you to thank for that. If not, most people on this site don't have a leg to stand on as they had a chance to get involved and chose not to. Before long, the only option left for the fresh water recreational angler will be carp and snapping turtles in polluted ponds.

Thanks again for your persistence and hard work!