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MMTA ENews: August 9, 2006
BOSTON BOAT SHOW NEWS
URGENT BOAT SHOW "JUMP BALL".
EMAILED MESSAGES NEEDED
TONIGHT AND TOMORROW!
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We have been told by some staff that the Governor's signature on the Boat
Show legislation is a "jump ball" due to controversy over the amount and
nature of community benefits in the bill. Others are more confident.
We have also been told our industry's phone calls are reaching some staff, not others, so now e-mails which these staff can see for themselves are very important.
Thank you for your phone calls this and last week. Please, continue to help
us help you by sending an e-mail message to the four Gubernatorial staff
addresses listed below. A draft e-mail is below for your use, as well.
Multiple identical e-mails, but for the individualized signature, are
absolutely fine, although you and your staff and family and friends can add
(polite) comments as you think best. Please do not try to take on the
community benefits issue, however, other than as addressed obliquely below.
Questions? Call Jamy Madeja at 617-227-8410 or email jmadeja@buchananassociates.com
Thank you in advance for your urgent action!
- John.O'Keefe@state.ma.us
- Josh.Archanbault@state.ma.us
- Renee.Fry@massmail.state.ma.us
- Matthew.Grew@state.ma.us
Please convey to Governor Romney my voice in support of immediate signature,
without amendments, of HB 4493 (Gate Shows in the Boston Convention &
Exhibition Center). I work in the recreational boating industry. Without
this bill, signed into law now, we cannot have the annual winter boat show
we have relied on for fifty years for our livelihoods year round.
Any changes to this long overdue legislation will kill our industry along
with the bill. Support thousands of jobs statewide, millions of dollars in
state revenues, by signing HB 4493 into law immediately. Please let me know
what the Governor's decision will be.
NAME ______________________
ADDRESS ___________________
TOWN ______________________
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