Please FAX, E-mail or Call Regarding this Bill Challenging Veg Information

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Please send a FAX, E-Mail and/or make a call ASAP to prevent a

restrictive and unconstitutional bill from being passed which will

benefit all animal exploiters including factory farmers. As a

vegetarian, you should be very concerned about this because this bill

would would threaten your abity to post information about factory

farmers on websites, even though they are true. It would also allow

the factory farmers to deny your Freedom of Information Act requests

if they think the information may fall into the wrong hands.

 

Below the contacts is a copy of a letter I sent to the Committee, if

you would like to copy and paste it into your own letterhead and fax

it off today please do! Your support is necessary now to stop this

from going past the Judiciary Committee. Be polite please.

 

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Phone Number and E-mail Contact Info:

 

Dave Jones - Chair Dem-9 (916) 319-2009

Assemblymember.jones

 

Van Tran - Vice Chair Rep-68 (916) 319-2068

Assemblymember.tran

 

Anthony Adams Rep-59 (916) 319-2059

Assemblymember.Adams

 

Noreen Evans Dem-7 (916) 319-2007

Assemblymember.Evans

 

Mike Feuer Dem-42 (916) 319-2042

Assemblymember.Feuer

 

Rick Keene Rep-3 (916) 319-2003

Assemblymember.keene

 

Paul Krekorian Dem-43 (916) 319-2043

Assemblymember.Krekorian

 

John Laird Dem-27 (916) 319-2027

Assemblymember.laird

 

Lloyd E. Levine Dem-40 (916) 319-2040

Assemblymember.levine

 

Sally J. Lieber Dem-22 (916) 319-2022

Assemblywoman.lieber

 

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FAX contact info:

 

Hon. Dave Jones, Chair

Fax: (916) 319-2109

 

Hon. Gene Mullin (author of AB 2296)

Drew Liebert, Chief Counsel

Fax: (916) 319-2119

 

 

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VIA FACSIMILE (916) 319-2119

 

April 14, 2008

 

Assembly Judiciary Committee

Attn: Drew Liebert, Chief Counsel

State Capitol

Sacramento, CA 94249

 

Re: Strong Opposition to AB 2296

 

Dear Chief Counsel Liebert:

 

I strongly oppose this new legislation and find it incredulously

controversial and offensive. This amendment to law is a content-

based restriction on speech which is unconstitutional. This bill

will have a negative impact preventing people from being inform of

facts regarding animal cruelty in factory farms which is very

important for me because I am a vegetarian. I request that you do

not allow this bill to move further.

 

I believe it is very important for me to know about how animals are

treated on factory farms that are funded with government money. If I

am unable to access information regarding animal welfare on factory

farms I do not feel like I will be as informed as I would like.

 

I also believe that preventing me from sharing information about

factory farmers would stifle free speech leaving no opportunity for

the factory farmers to be accountable to the public about their

ongoing animal mistreatments. Free speech will be handicapped beyond

repair if members of the public continuously have their Freedom of

Information Act requests denied merely because factory farmers and

other animal enterprises do not want people to know the truth about

industrialized animal production for food.

 

The public has a right to know where their food comes from and have

that information posted freely and openly for public education. This

bill would prevent facts regarding institutionalized animal cruelty

from being allowed into the public forum for healthy public scrutiny

and debate. There are already laws adequate to protect factory

farmers such as those in the California Penal Code addressing

stalking, trespassing and harassment. This law only serves an

oppressive purpose to prevent the circulation of information

regarding animal use in public institutions: what the public has the

right to know about. Thus, AB 2296 is strongly opposed.

 

Best Regards,

 

Signed: