ISRA Legislative Alert - SB1966 - May 22, 2019
Published: Wed, 05/22/19
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ISRA Legislative Alert - SB1966 as Amended - May 22, 2019
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Representative Kathleen Willis became the house sponsor of SB 1966, originally titled "PUBLIC DEFENDER BAIL PROGRAM", and is using it as the vehicle for her anti-gun initiative "FIX THE FOID ACT" under House Committee Amendment 1. It's a complete rewrite, nothing remains of the original bill. "FIX THE FOID" means make the FOID unaffordable, inconvenient, and a way to treat legal gun owners like criminals.
This bill passed out of the House Judiciary - Criminal Committee Hearing yesterday, on a partisan vote. It is now headed for a vote on the House Floor. Some members may be feeling "email alert fatigue", and we are communicating often with you right now, but this is the most important and dangerous legislation of the session right now, it's active and it will take away your rights. ISRA lobbyists do the brunt of the work, but we count on the efforts of you to keep our voice strong, You are asked to come to Springfield once a year, you are asked to get on the keyboard and enter witness slips and today it's a phone call. Not everyone was able to make that call yesterday, today is your renewed opportunity. It is critical that you call your State Representative now, today, and urge that they not support SB1966 in a floor vote. Emotions can run high when thinking about legislation to remove your rights. Please remember that you will be talking to a staff person for the representative and your role here is to standup and be counted, and their role is simply to take your information. They will be keeping a tally to give to the representative, so keep it brief, polite and understandable. If you need to verify who your Illinois State Representative is, please use this lookup at the Illinois State Board of Elections. If you remember who your representative is, but don't know the phone number to call, you can use the above lookup tool or quickly find your legislator on the ILGA website. Representatives here, Senators here. After yesterday's alert, some members told ISRA that the Illinois State Board of Elections website was down, it's up now. This morning, the anti-gun Bloomberg Moms will gather somewhere between 30 and 47 confused followers in the Rotunda in the State Capitol for a photo opportunity and a push to get your rights taken away. Their photographers and the liberal Chicago Media will use photoshop and mind control to make their little event seem bigger than IGOLD, but in fact they will not be able to field even 1 Bloomberg Mom per district. Your phone call today is needed to make sure that the legislators know we are not to be ignored. Thank you for your action on this matter, and stand by for more alerts today. If you are receiving this alert and are not an ISRA member, please join and help support the fight to keep your 2nd Amendment Rights. Check out ISRA's website at www.isra.org! Tell us what you think! |