What can you do that is so important in one minute, you may be asking?

Simply...

COPY THIS: "Please pass S4148a, the OPMC Reform Bill."

GO HERE: http://161.11.3.75/

FILL IN YOUR INFORMATION...

PASTE THE ABOVE... ("Please pass S4148a, the OPMC Reform Bill.")

HIT SEND...

NOW...

Don't you feel better? I do...

You just spent the most important minute of your day helping us all!
http://flash.lymenet.org/ubb/Forum1/HTML/026257.html

Thank you!!!

I was just reading your email about this.

I allowed a full 60 seconds for those who like me...are VERY SLOW TYPERS

M

Many have already done this for me and others are promising to do so today!

When you make it 'personal' some people are more likely to do it. In the heading, I put "I NEED YOUR HELP". Maybe that got their attn since I never ask for help.

Thanks for your push, Melanie!

I know that so many people would want to do this, but couldn't figure out a short, sweet way to get the message across.

Newbie here. Dit it in about a minute...

--Annie

You all made me smile

Thanks to each one of you for doing your best for the good of all...

Much love back,
M

He said to "you may be interested to know that this legislation, bill S4148A is sponsored by my esteemed colleague, Senator Kemp Hannon, and you may want to conact him to register your support for this measure"

We have sent I don't know how many groups in to meet with him I don't know how many times. Many, many. We have written to him and called him - probably thousands of calls and letters.

If ever a politician has heard from a group, Sen. Hannon has heard from us.

The result is that Hannon is on our side now! The bill was originally sponsored only by Sen. Seward, but now,in its third year, Hannon has decided to become a sponsor.

We kept calling him on June 21st which was originally supposed to be the last opportunity to get the bill passed this year. Those calls were to make sure Hannon would stand behind the bill and get it on the calendar for a vote - which he did.

So the word now from Albany is that Hannon gets it. He knows Lyme patients want this bill. Boy, does he know it!

So right now we are concentrating on getting Bruno solidly behind us, while other patient groups are contacting Hannon so that he knows there is widespread support from doctors and patients, not just Lyme.

The reason I am laughing about Bruno's letter is that I am imagining Senator Bruno now drowning under emails from Lyme patients and wanting to "share" some of this with Hannon.

Good for us!

Please keep writing to Gov. Pataki if you are not a New Yorker and please write to Bruno if you are a New Yorker.

We can do this!

Lymenet has so many members, of we all take one minute to send..there will be significant contact generated.

Also..get creative..think of groups you can print the action up for in a flyer..churches, kids activities..any groups you have contact with..bring it to work. Most people are welcoming and willing to do this once made aware.

NY groups..contact Bruno as listed below, out of state, get on Pataki..

New York friends and family to
email him ASAP and urge him to support S4148a now!
Go to www.senatorbruno.com/send_email.asp
and there will be a form on which to send your email.

Lyme patients from across the country will be writing to Governor Pataki
with the hope that if we win his support, he will ask Senator Bruno to
put the bill on the calendar.

Mo

Our primary targets, however, remain Senator Bruno for New Yorkers to write to and Governor Pataki for everyone to wrte to.

Lymeandstilkicking (I hope I remembered your name correctly) please do go ahead adn write to Governor Pataki.

I can't say for sure exactly how much clout emails from out of country will have in getting S4148a passed. But it will certainly have a big impact in letting the Governor know just serious this Lyme problem is that people from all around the world are asking him to pass S4148a.

Suz-Q, some New Yorkrs have spoken to Hillary Clinton's staff about the OPMC issue and S414a. Unfortunately, the Senate and the Governor are both Repubican, so she has no power to get them to pass S4148a.

It took me more than a minute because, i dont know how to cut and paste.

I was too lazy to find a pen and paper to write the info on, so i had to rememer the bill number. Unfortunatly, i have lyme brain and had to keep coming back to lymenet to try to remember the bill #.......

All done,

Jordan

It's a numbers game. Anyone you can think of to forward the action to is worth it.

It is a simple task, so it doesn't feel funny to ask, and many people appreciate this kind of activism!

Mo

debbie from warwick rhode island.

Up for more...

Thanks for posting the e-mail address again.

Please help in any way you can think of!
The thread has the details. NYers call Bruno, this takes one minute. (tell him to pass S4148, say for OPMC Reform..they ask for zipcode/county..)

All others keep e-mailing Pataki.

I'm assuming this is okay to send another e-mail (I sent one last time around), in any event, they just got another one from me!

Thank you for all you do!