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NY Trail Funding Bill in serious trouble
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[QUOTE="OffRoadWarrior, post: 125355, member: 22244"] Yesterday I had the unpleasant experience of talking with the legislative aide to Assemblyman Morelle about this years attempt at getting an ORV trail funding bill passed. The conversation left me disheartened and POed. For those of you who don't live in NY or aren't familiar with the situation here it is in brief: About 14 years ago NY passed a bill which said you must register your ORV, but part of the money will be used for trail creation/maintenance throughout the state. We thought it was a decent deal at the time since the riding area situation was pretty grim. Three years after the bill became law the state budget was running a deficit thanks to our tax and spend (and spend, and spend, and spend) democrat controlled state government so they raided the ORV trail fund and eliminated all future trail funding BUT NOT THE REGISTRATION FEES which are still mandatory for all vehicles not used soley for farming. For several years NYSORVA has been trying to get trail funding reinstated. However the bill dies year after year. This year's hold up, both the assembly and senate bills languish in committee. The senate committee refuses to move their bill unless an amendment sponsored by eco groups in the assembly version is removed. NYSORVA has asked its members to call Assemblyman Morelle to persuade him to remend the bill to match the senate version so both can be brought before the respective chambers for a vote. Being the helpful guy that I am (don't ask my wife to verify that statement :p ) I dutifully placed my call to Mr. Morelle's office and was connected with his legislative aide. I proceeded to express my, and the communities, concern with the bill and the importance that the bill get moved to the floor in the July 16-17th special session. The aide proceeded to lecture me on how he didn't need to be reminded about the history of the bill and that the bill would never pass the assembly without the amendment. My first response was to get angry and offended at the condecending way this self important aide was talking to me. After calming my self down and supressing the urge to drive to albany just to throttle the little jerk I became despondant over there being any hope of improvement here in NY. If you have time, please help by calling or writing members of the lege. For details on the bills go to [url]www.nysorva.org/legislation.[/url] Assemblyman Morelle can be reached at (716) 467-0410. Email addresses for members of the NY state lege can be found at [url]http://assembly.state.ny.us/[/url] and [url]http://www.senate.state.ny.us/[/url] In the meantime I'll be in my garage assembling an effigy of fatheaded, self important, government (_|_)es. -------------------------------------------------------- Does any body else think that joining a militia sounds like a better and better idea all the time? [/QUOTE]
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