Title:
Medical marijuana bill to be heard in Senate committee'let's build the pressure
Message:
Thanks to sustained grassroots pressure from Marijuana Policy Project members and activists around the state, the Senate Health and Family Security Committee Chair Becky Lourey (DFL-Kerrick) has agreed to schedule S.F. 1973—the bipartisan medical marijuana bill—for a hearing on Tuesday at 6:00 p.m. Now it's time to bring pressure to bear on the members of the Senate committee who currently hold the bill's fate in their hands. Please act now.
Please call the senators below and ask them to vote "yes" on S.F. 1973. We need six votes to pass the bill out of committee. Our intelligence indicates that four members of the committee are confirmed "yes" votes. Two other members are leaning "yes," but they are not confirmed. They are:
Mee Moua (DFL-St. Paul) 651-296-5285
Leo Foley (DFL-Coon Rapids) 651-296-4154
The following members are undecided:
Sheila Kiscaden (IP-Rochester) 651-296-4848
Sean Nienow (R-Cambridge) 651-296-5419
The following members are confirmed "yes" votes. If you've read this far or live in a member's district, please call and thank the member for supporting this issue:
Becky Lourey, chair (DFL-Kerrick) 651-296-0293 Steve Kelley, bill sponsor (DFL-Hopkins) 651-297-8065
Linda Berglin (DFL-Minneapolis) 651-296-4261 Linda Higgins (DFL-Minneapolis) 651-296-9246
The members who are confirmed as being opposed are:
Michelle Fischbach (R-Paynesville) 651-296-2084
Brian LeClair (R-Woodbury) 651-296-4166
Betsy Wergin (R-Princeton) 651-296-8075
To find your senator and his or her contact info, click here and type in your zip code. Then check to see if your senator is on the list above.
If you live in one a committee member's districts, you've struck gold. Just call the senator's office and tell whoever answers that you live in the senator's district, and that you strongly support S.F. 1973, the medical marijuana bill.
Please tell your friends around Minnesota about this message and ask them to start at the top. Thank you for supporting the Marijuana Policy Project.
