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Commander Bob,
Thank You for the update, So...after the motion to table does
it go for a 2nd reading? That link is really helpful, and I will spend
many hours of educational reading to learn it as much as possible.
Pete
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Al,
That's a good Idea, On a positive note we have 6 of 12 committee
members that are Co-Sponsors...
Pete
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Commander Bob,
Educate me....How do we find out if has been tabled?
Pete
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That is true, BUT....Let us continue to take these baby steps...
1. 60 Co-Sponsors before the 1st committee meeting is a good thing!
2. 5 of the 12 committee members are already Co-Sponsors.
3. Out of 59 Legislative Districts in all of Illinois, 16 of them
already have both Representatives that have Co-Sponsored this legislation.
4. Public Act 95-644 (HB0644) passed 17 Oct 07, started as HB0664 and
had quite abit of ammendments movement / added and tossed
back and forth between the House & Senate before finally approved.
5. The terminology of of Public Act 95-0644 Sec. 35 ILCS 200/15-169
new, still has burps in it.
6. HB0273 is very specific and to the point, nobody can question what
exactly is being said or the intent of it.
All we can do is DRIVE ON and stand up for what is RIGHT for
Illinois Disabled Veterans!!!!!
Take Care
putintime
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Sorry...Only meant to send it one time
Pete
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Al,
I also faxed her last week and today at both her Faxes, I am positive
your Fax put her on our side. We need her, she is the only Veteran on
the Revenue & Finance Committee. I am also looking ahead and noticing
that we have close to 20 legislative districts that both Representatives
from that district have Co-Sponsored HB 0273. It may mean nothing, but
I look at historical trends, and we are doing things that have never been
achieved before. With that being said, I am going to go back to past
IGA legislation sessions and see which Senators have Co-Sponsored past
veteran legislation on this issue regardless it be HB's or SB's and what
happened.
Take Care,
Pete
Al,
I also faxed her last week and today at both her Faxes, I am positive
your Fax put her on our side. We need her, she is the only Veteran on
the Revenue & Finance Committee. I am also looking ahead and noticing
that we have close to 20 legislative districts that both Representatives
from that district have Co-Sponsored HB 0273. It may mean nothing, but
I look at historical trends, and we are doing things that have never been
achieved before. With that being said, I am going to go back to past
IGA legislation sessions and see which Senators have Co-Sponsored past
veteran legislation on this issue regardless it be HB's or SB's and what
happened.
Take Care,
Pete
Al,
I also faxed her last week and today at both her Faxes, I am positive
your Fax put her on our side. We need her, she is the only Veteran on
the Revenue & Finance Committee. I am also looking ahead and noticing
that we have close to 20 legislative districts that both Representatives
from that district have Co-Sponsored HB 0273. It may mean nothing, but
I look at historical trends, and we are doing things that have never been
achieved before. With that being said, I am going to go back to past
IGA legislation sessions and see which Senators have Co-Sponsored past
veteran legislation on this issue regardless it be HB's or SB's and what
happened.
Take Care,
Pete
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Stand to be corrected.....
As of 10 February 2009 at 1330 the HB0273 has the following;
A total of 56 Co-Sponsors, more than any other HB going in front of the
Revenue & Finance Committee Hearing on February 11, 2009 at 1000.
There are 5 members of the Revenue & Finance committee that
have Co-Sponsored HB0273, they are;
Linda Chapa LaVIA
Bob Biggins ®
Suzanne Bassi ®
Careen M. Gordon (D)
Ed Sullivan, Jr. ®
HB0273 - MUST PREVAIL
PLEASE email & Fax all the Illinois Representatives that have not Co-Sponsored this
legislation. Better yet, send your personal story how it effects you or someone you
know. We are making baby steps, but it is better than the previous IGA crawl that
we have delt with in the last 4 years.
Take Care,
putintime
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Al,
Way to go!!!!!!.....Hopefully it is read while they are in debate or
going over HB0273!!!!!
Pete
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Stand to be corrected.....
As of 10 February 2009 at 1200 the HB0273 has the following;
A total of 52 Co-Sponsors, more than any other HB going in front of the
Revenue & Finance Committee Hearing on February 11, 2009 at 1000.
There are 4 members of the Revenue & Finance committee that
have Co-Sponsored HB0273, they are;
Bob Biggins ®
Suzanne Bassi ®
Careen M. Gordon (D)
Ed Sullivan, Jr. ®
HB0273 - MUST PREVAIL
PLEASE email & Fax all the Illinois Representatives that have not Co-Sponsored this
legislation. Better yet, send your personal story how it effects you or someone you
know. We are making baby steps, but it is better than the previous IGA crawl that
we have delt with in the last 4 years.
Take Care,
putintime
Al was right at the beginning when he mentioned the committee, but it was just the Democrats
that had been selected at that time. Now they balanced the committee with 5 Republicans.
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They just named the members for that 11 February 2009
Revenue & Finance committee, Now here is the questions....
First they have a total of 66 HB's to look at that day...Now
HB0273 has the most co-sponsors with over 46, the next
one even remotely close is HB0023 with 17. I am just wondering
how this works, I will be following it closely. I do know I
have personally emailed and Faxed everyone in this committee
for support. So far only Careen M. Gordon has responded
positively. Linda Chapa LaVia is a veteran and has co-sponsored
past legislation on this issue.
Keep Positive;
Pete
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Al,
That database you provided fellow veterans is going to
save so much time. Hopefully it is used and abused for all
the right reasons. I see that they have set up a Feb 11
Revenue & Finance committee date at 10:00, If you go to
committees and click, they have 43 HB's to go over that
day, and NONE have the co-sponsors compared to HB0273,
Let us keep it going. I am going to see who else co-sponsors
before the end of the week before I send round two of
my love letter emails.....
Round two will consist of those that have not co-sponsored,
and said they would on return emails, and past IGA co-sponsors
of the same HB in previous legislation.
Pete
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ILLINOIS VETERANS LETS DO IT TOGETHER
WE ARE AT 39 CO-SPONSORS FOR HB0273. THIS IS ONLY THE BEGINNING
BUT A VERY GOOD BEGINNING, THE 96TH ILLINOIS GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE IN NOW IN
SESSION....CONTACT YOU REPRESENATIVES AND SENATORS, MATTER FACT CONTACT ALL
OF THEM AND LET THEM KNOW, THAT WE KNOW, WHAT IS GOING ON...GET INVOLVED!!!!, THERE ARE ABOUT 870,000 VETERANS IN ILLINOIS. tHAT IS WHY MORE THAN 180 LAWMAKERS IN ILLINOIS THAT MAKE MANY DECISIONS THAT WILL EFFECT YOU.
CONTACT ALL 39 CO-SPONSORS OF HB0273 AND THANK THEM FOR ALL THE DISABLED VETERANS IN ILLINOIS PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE.
PUTINTIME -
Al,
Tried to send you an email, for some reason I cannot..
Question of the day???? The past IGA's (94th & 95th)
also had the exact same legislation as HB0273 (HB4197
in the 95th IGA) (HB4247 in the 94th IGA) and never got
passed the First Reading and ended up getting dropped at the
end of each session. What is your suggestion to overcome
this delemia, or to overcome it before it becomes
stagnet. Pls Assist!!!!
Thanxs
Pete
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Al & Grace,
You two are throwing out names that have not even
responded to my emails. You two are neighbors....
Take Care,
Pete
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Al & Grace,
Stay on it....Go to the IGA website, we are at 14
co-sponsors, and by the names we are hearing from
in a positive note, more are to come. Al, You are
so right, it's a whole new game, and we must run with
it.
4 More C-Sponsors;
Rep. l. Dugan. - 79th District
Rep. M. Berrios - 39th District
Rep. S. Feigenholtz - 12th District
Rep. A. Saviano - 77th District
Please call, write, fax, or email these Rep. and Thank
them for their support on HB0273, we need all the attention
that we can get. Let's get it going full speed....
Take Care,
putintime
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Our emails & Faxes are working....
Rep. H. Ramey,Jr. - 55th District
Please call, write, fax, or email this Rep. and Thank
him for his support in HB0273, we need all the attention
that we can get. Let's get it going full speed....
Take Care,
putintime
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Grace,
Great!!! You did the right thing....Once you see her as
a co-sponsor personally write her, and Thank her. I have
had a few that say they are going to but.....I'm waiting
until Feb 4. when they will be in Springfied.
Here is a Thank You letter I personally send to all that
are Cheif Co-Sponsors / Co- Sponsors.
Illinois Represenative ............; From ALL the Illinois Disabled Veterans & I thank
you for being a Co-Sponsor on legistation HB0273. It will
help equalize the injustice of benefits for Illinois Disabled
Veterans, in retrospect to other state benefits concerning
property tax and limited income disabled veterans.
Sincerely, Joseph C. Peterson
Illinois Life Member:
The American Legion # 203674429
American Veterans (AMVETS) # 2302527
Disabled American Veterans (DAV) # 120199594432
Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) # 410674
American Military Retiree Association (AMRA) # 14185
The Retired Enlisted Association (TREA) # 16572873
Take Care,
Pete
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We appriciate any and all support we can get....
Thank You...
Take Care,
Putintime
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Grace,
I'm going to stay at this sub site for now...We have had 8875 hits so far, and to me it
is going to the veterans it effects the most; Illinois Veterans. Appriciate the insight, more
and more veterans are getting involved, and that is great. Word of mouth and newspapers
are another way, there are veterans everywhere or family members of veterans, and
family members of those currently serving. This HB0273 effects many people in Illinois, and
we need to start the snowball effect going down a mountain.
Take Care,
Pete
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samalw,
Did the same thing, Did the emails to each individual to personalize
it, but it took me longer 'cause I'm sorta anal retentive on the computer,
but it is a tool that I now would have a hard time living without. I have
learned to make backup files and still keep a hard copy of many things.
thanxs
putintime
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Illinois Veteran who want to get involved....
I have many 2007-2008 Illinois / Handbook of
GOVERNMENT paperback books left that are
very informative.If you want one just sent a
message to me and I will get one out to you.
We must UNITE and FIGHT for what is RIGHT
when it comes to Illinois Disabled Veterans and
HB0273.
To many other states already have some type
of this benefit for their disabled veterans, now
that Blago is gone and Quinn is in, we need to
step it up. I know that Quinn is proactive when
it comes to veteran issues.
Samalw is a wiz on linking and inputted much
information that can be downloaded if need be.
Lets get involved and show Illinois what being
a veteran is all about.
Take Care,
Putintime
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Al, Grace and all Illinois Veterans getting involved
We are going to see this through to the end one way or another....
I have emailed all Illinois Representatives / Senators, now I am going
for the newspapers opinion columns (most of them are free).
Al is the link man...I am sure if more veterans understood the process
they would be able to understand their Reps / Senators lingo. I am working
with some veterans organizations to get our fellow district Representatives
and Senators to talk at local organizations..ie..American Legion, Veteran
of Foreign Wars posts etc...Maybe this will help put a bug in their ear that
we are not only watching, but also listening what they have to say about
veterans in their districts.
Take Care
Pete
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Great....
Now we must get all involved and
contact all the Illinois Representatives
and Senators to Co-Sponsor HB0273,
while it is a hot item, and sounds like
Blago be gone 59-0
We have 9 Co-Sponsors so far, and
the house does not convene till
February 4, 2009
Take Care,
Pete
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Al,
How do you send private messages through
this site. My email is: fta981001@yahoo.com
Have you been watching this thing on
Blago? All these people are calling and
defending him. He needs to go IMHO !!
I'm glad ya got the book, Your going
to see a number of emails have changed,
but the fax numbers are good.
Take Care
Pete
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Commander Bob,
OK, I am understanding what you are writing, stop the
debate, pernmanently kill pending matter, and get it going
for the 2nd & 3rd reading. Am I on the right track? In the
interim the more Co-Sponsors the better correct.
Thank You
Pete