Update From Arizona Common Sense Update

Monday, April 28, 2008

As HB 2156 was being considered in the Senate Rules committee, testimony was taken for the first time in three decades! The RRs were there in force, including some folks that they flew in. This was to fight a bill that they agreed to the verbiage on and agreed not to fight. We prevailed on a voice vote, 5-2. This was a difficult and critical hurdle, so this is very good news.

We are now preparing to head for caucus, COW (Committee of the Whole). The danger there is that amendments could be offered, which would necessitate going back to the House, and we do not have the time in this legislature. If no amendments make it on in COW, we will be headed to the governor's desk, assuming success on 3rd read in the Senate.

It is very important to maintain grassroots pressure on the Senate.

• If you have not yet sent e-mails in to the Senate members, please do and ask that they approve HB 2156 without amendments.
• If you have already emailed the Senate members, it is not too early to start getting messages in to the governor, that you support HB 2156, soon it is coming to her desk and to please sign it into law, as it is good legislation.
• We will send the governor a second group of emails when the bill passes the Senate to say please sign the bill now.

The RR folks are now there trying to peel off the possibility of her signature. So we should do what we can to maintain a voice in her ear. We are her consituents.

Below are the contact information for the Senators and Governor Napolitano.

Arizona Common Sense, Inc.

Link to the governor's information: http://azgovernor.gov/Contact.asp

Name	District	Party	Email	Room	Phone (602)	Fax (602)
Paula Aboud	28	D	paboud@azleg.gov	314	926-5262	926-3429
Amanda Aguirre	24	D	aaguirre@azleg.gov	311	926-4139	417-3184
Carolyn S. Allen	8	R	callen@azleg.gov	303	926-4480	417-3155
Marsha Arzberger Minority Leader	25	D	marzberger@azleg.gov	213	926-4321	417-3146
Timothy S. Bee President	30	R	tbee@azleg.gov	204	926-5683	417-3247
Robert Blendu President Pro Tempore	12	R	rblendu@azleg.gov	300	926-5955	417-3168
Robert "Bob" Burns	9	R	rburns@azleg.gov	110	926-5993	417-3226
Meg Burton Cahill	17	D	mburtoncahill@azleg.gov	313	926-4124	417-3017
Ken Cheuvront	15	D	kcheuvront@azleg.gov	315	926-5325	417-3249
Jake Flake	5	R	jflake@azleg.gov	307	926-5219	417-3224
Jorge Luis Garcia Assistant Minority Leader	27	D	jgarcia@azleg.gov	213	926-4171	417-3262
Pamela Gorman	6	R	pgorman@azleg.gov	304	926-5284	417-3106
Ron Gould	3	R	rgould@azleg.gov	303	926-4138	417-3265
Chuck Gray	19	R	cgray@azleg.gov	305	926-5288	417-3161
Linda Gray	10	R	lgray@azleg.gov	309	926-3376	417-3253
Albert Hale	2	D	ahale@azleg.gov	313	926-4323	417-3260
Jack W. Harper	4	R	jharper@azleg.gov	301	926-4178	417-3154
John Huppenthal Majority Whip	20	R	jhuppenthal@azleg.gov	212	926-5261	417-3157
Karen Johnson	18	R	kjohnson@azleg.gov	304	926-3160	926-3429
Leah Landrum Taylor	16	D	llandrumtaylor@azleg.gov	315	926-3830	417-3148
Barbara Leff	11	R	bleff@azleg.gov	302	926-4486	417-3270
Debbie McCune Davis	14	D	dmccunedavis@azleg.gov	311	926-4485	926-3429
Richard Miranda	13	D	rmiranda@azleg.gov	308	926-5911	417-3171
Tom O'Halleran	1	R	tohalleran@azleg.gov	303A	926-5584	417-3101
Charlene Pesquiera	26	D	cpesquiera@azleg.gov	314	926-4326	417-3259
Rebecca Rios Minority Whip	23	D	rrios@azleg.gov	310	926-5685	417-3167
Victor Soltero	29	D	vsoltero@azleg.gov	312	926-5342	417-3169
Jay Tibshraeny	21	R	jtibshraeny@azleg.gov	306	926-4481	417-3252
Thayer Verschoor Majority Leader	22	R	tverschoor@azleg.gov	212	926-4136	417-3222
Jim Waring	7	R	jwaring@azleg.gov	302	926-4916	417-3150

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