Urgent Action! Your Calls Will Restore Property Rights! Friends in Property Rights,Let's continue the work to uphold and respect your property rights! Your Calls and Emails are working and there are several important pro-property rights bills receiving hearings this week! At hearings for these bills, the opposition turned out in full force! The WDFW,DOE, Sierra Club, Futurewise, the Tribes, and associations of cities and counties all testified against these pro property rights bills! As your property rights lobbyist and advocate, I testified on your behalf in favor of these bills! But my voice and testimony alone will not counter all the self interest groups testifying against us! To restore your liberty in your property we all need to be heard! Please call and email your representatives and senators and ask for their support in getting these bills passed! Three Bills on Eminent Domain! Each of these bills intend to better define eminent domain and prevent takings for other than true public use. Please call your legislators or the legislative hotline to support the passage all of these bills! Legislative hotline: 1.800.562.6000 SB 5188, Read original text: http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/2015-16/Pdf/Bills/Senate%20Bills/5188.pdf SB 5189, Read original text: http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/2015-16/Pdf/Bills/Senate%20Bills/5189.pdf SB 5363, Read original text: http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/2015-16/Pdf/Bills/Senate%20Bills/5363.pdf Please send this email to the chairman of the Law and Justice Committee, Senator Mike Padden and let him know you support the passage of these bills! mike.padden@leg.wa.gov Three bills to save our Farmers, Ranchers, and Agricultural Lands! Action Alert!! Save our Ag lands!! Call in and Support These Bills!!! According to the Washington State Department of Agriculture, our agriculture and food industry is worth $49 billion to the state economy. Support our agricultural value and your safe and locally produced food by calling the Legislative Hotline: 1.800.562.6000 and telling your legislators you support HB 1215, HB 1629 HB 1630 and their companion bills in the Senate! Please send these e-mails to the Chairman of the Local Government Committee and let these representatives know you support the passage of these bills! dean.takko@leg.wa.gov david.taylor@leg.wa.gov Here is how these bills will protect our ag land and great local food! HB 1215 Restricting the conversion of agricultural land to other uses under the growth management act. http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/2015-16/Pdf/Bills/House%20Bills/1215.pdf HB 1629 Prohibiting conversion of agricultural lands to wetlands or fish habitat under the shoreline management act. http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/2015-16/Pdf/Bills/House%20Bills/1629.pdf HB 1630 Prohibiting conversion of agricultural lands to wetlands or fish habitat under the growth management act and the shoreline management act. http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/2015-16/Pdf/Bills/House%20Bills/1630.pdf Seven bills to restore your water rights! Witnessing the opposition to bills heard yesterday, we can anticipate the opposition to appear at the hearing in full force and testify against these important property rights bills!!! Do you know that thousands could lose their water avialability and have properties without a continuous supply of water if these bills do not get passed! This is a serious problem for every citizen in the state, and the loss of water rights is spreading statewide! Please prevent this damage to properties across the state! WATER RIGHTS BILLS!!! Please call your representatives or the Legislative Hotline 1.800.562.6000 Hearings will be held in Olympia on Thursday, January 29th at 8:00am in Olympia. Senate Full Committee Senate Hearing Rm 3 J.A. Cherberg Building Olympia, WA If you can't drive to the hearings, please send this email to the chair of the Committee on Agriculture and Water & Rural Economic Development! judy.warnick@leg.wa.gov Here are links to the Bills: 1. SB 5129 – Concerning overriding considerations of the public interest in management of the waters of the state. http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/2015-16/Pdf/Bills/Senate%20Bills/5129.pdf 2. SB 5131 – Concerning the Skagit instream flow rule. http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/2015-16/Pdf/Bills/Senate%20Bills/5131.pdf 3. SB 5407 – Concerning existing lots and the Skagit instream flow rule. http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/2015-16/Pdf/Bills/Senate%20Bills/5407.pdf 4. SB 5134 – Concerning base flows and minimum instream flows. http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/2015-16/Pdf/Bills/Senate%20Bills/5134.pdf 5. SB 5135 – Ensuring that certain existing water uses are not subject to interruption. http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/2015-16/Pdf/Bills/Senate%20Bills/5135.pdf 6. SB 5136 – Repealing an instream flow rule and adopting a new instream flow rule. http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/2015-16/Pdf/Bills/Senate%20Bills/5136.pdf 7. SB 5491 – Maintaining reservations of water for certain future uses. http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/2015-16/Pdf/Bills/Senate%20Bills/5491.pdf Thank you for helping to give property rights a strong voice in Olympia! If we all send calls and emails, we will have the strength to get these bills passed! If this work to get these bills drafted, sponsored,assigned legislative bill numbers, and passed is the kind of work you appreciate, please consider a CAPR PAC donation to keep this effort funded! Together we can get these property rights bills passed! Thank you for your help in getting the restoration and respect for Property Rights that should always be the main goal of our state government! http://www.capr.us/capr_pp_donate.php
January 28, 2015