ATTENTION: Hey CALIFORNIANS...THEY're Trying To F@#K Us AGAIN!!! Do Something!!!!

This just came in from SEMA-SAN. It's a BIG deal. Call or email these Sanators TODAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


California Lawmaker Trying to Sneak by a Bill to Require ANNUAL Emissions Tests for Vehicles
15-Years Old and Older

Committee Hearing set for August 28. Call Now!!!

In an effort to avoid public scrutiny, California ***emblyman Dave Jones (***emblymember.jones@***embly.ca.gov) has amended a completely unrelated bill with language to require annual Smog check inspections for vehicles 15-years old and older. This represents an obvious attempt to sneak through legislation in the closing days of the legislative session that had been previously defeated (A.B. 616). The new bill is designated as A.B. 3053.

While pre-1976 motor vehicles would remain exempt under existing California law, this proposal ignores the fact that vehicles 15-years old and older still cons***ute a small portion of the overall vehicle population and are a poor source from which to look for emissions reduction. Furthermore, the bill would direct that the funds generated through annual inspection fees be used to s**** older cars. This represents another attempt by California legislators and regulators to scapegoat older cars.

This is the type of activity that fuels distrust in public officials. SEMA caught this lawmaker’s underhanded attempt to cir***vent public process and is now calling on you to help defeat A.B 3053 before it’s too late.

Time is of the Essence! We Urge You to Call the California Senate Appropriations Committee (List Below) Immediately to Oppose A.B. 3053


California Senate Appropriations Committee

Senator Tom Torlakson – Chair
Phone: 916/651-4007
Email: senator.torlakson@sen.ca.gov

Senator Dave Cox
Phone: 916/651-4001
Email: senator.cox@sen.ca.gov

Senator Sam Aanestad
Phone: 916/651-4004
Email: senator.aanestad@sen.ca.gov

Senator Roy Ashburn
Phone: 916/651-4018
Email: senator.ashburn@sen.ca.gov

Senator Gilbert Cedillo
Phone: 916/651-4022
Email: senator.cedillo@sen.ca.gov

Senator Ellen Corbett
Phone: 916/651-4010

Senator Robert Dutton
Phone: 916/651-4031
Email: senator.dutton@sen.ca.gov

Senator Dean Florez
Phone: 916/651-4016
Email: senator.florez@sen.ca.gov

Senator Sheila Kuehl
Phone: 916/651-4023
Email: senator.kuehl@sen.ca.gov

Senator Jenny Oropeza
Phone: 916/651-4028

Senator Mark Ridley-Thomas
Phone: 916/651-4026

Senator George Runner
Phone: 916/651-4017
Email: senator.runner@sen.ca.gov

Senator Joe Simitian
Phone: 916/651-4011
Email: senator.simitian@sen.ca.gov

Senator Mark Wyland
Phone: 916/651-4038

Senator Leland Yee
Phone: 916/651-4008

 

This is a pure case of shady politics. Look at the folowing link and see how this went from a bill about Domestic Relations in the Family Code, to this!
http://www.legisweb.com/calm/model/Retrieve.asp?ref=urn:calm:2007:ab3053:doc

 

thanks guys, I was just jumping on here to post about this as I'd just gotten through reading the email alert I got. If I recall correctly, you have to go to each senator's web page from the CA.gov website for them to be able to receive the email. This is complete BS for them to hush-hush COMPLETELY change the bill at the last second!!!

 

I called every number on this list. All you have to do is ask the Senator to oppose AB 3053. They will tally the number of calls they get for or against and the each Senator should use this info to way thier decision.

 

just sent an email through yahoo, only the cedillo and torlakson emails got kicked back, so far. maybe they do go through...

and maybe I'm going through and calling, as well. Roy Ashburn and George Runner are opposing it according to their offices.

 

You also want to remember these politicians when election time comes.........you don't need their type running your state..........or mine!

 

I just got off the phone......called them all, going to get emails out there too.

Thanks SEMA......thanks Kirk!!!

sneaky *******s up there in Sacramento! That Dave Jones guy and I are gonna have words pretty quick over **** like this.

 

it really is that easy, according to the call log on my phone it took me 10 minutes to get through all of the numbers, your response to their greeting just needs to be "I'm calling in strong opposition to AB 3053", some take your name and/or zip/city and say thank you and you're done!

 

This is the State Appropriations Comittee......that's why we have to rattle their cages, all these clowns sit on this comittee.

 

pre 76 are exempt. what are you worried about?

 

I don't see that anywhere, but even if that's true, it's a foot in the door to older cars. Don't EVER let politicians step on you without your consent. Especially by sneaking **** into an unrelated bill.

 

Thanks KIRK! for the heads-up.

Seriously, it just takes a minute to scribe a brief, ***ertive message to all of these addresses. I wrote just a few lines and wrote "oppose A.B. 3053" in the subject line.

I also BCC'd my other 2 email add'ys so I could just click reply to all and send it off again...

This is a disgusting slap in the face to a hobby that, by the way, contributes a greatly underestimated amount of money to the economy.

 

have you read the link?

 

the bill adds funding to junk old cars, a**** other things. I'm most strongly opposed to HOW they went about rewriting the bill at the very last minute. It's also a foot in the door to getting to the pre-76 vehicles, as well.

 

Thanks for the heads up Kirk!
I just emailed all of those with an address posted.
Tomorrow it's phone calls.
The only one that "bounced" back was for Gilbert Cedillo.
No surprise there,he's the same f#cker that wants to give Illegals drivers licenses!

 

The current law exempts pre 76. This bill and others that they have tried to sneek in would require all pre 76 vehicles to do the inspections. At this point it would be an inspection only with no p*** or fail requirements. But when this was done here in the state before, the info they gathered was used to set standards for previously exempt vehicles and then applied to the inspections later to force these vehicles to meet min. requirements.

This is an attempt to compile data to use againt the hobby lobbiests and show how this testing would reduce emissions.

And the main reason it will generate more revinew for the state.

When they start applying emission standards to hotrods they will put restrictions on engine replacment and force you through huge piles of red tape if you have a power plant other then stock. One of those requirements will be to test to the year of the engine. If you have a 80's crate engine in your model A, It doesn't seem fair to test it to 1980's standards. Especialy if the people making that decision are not hotroders.
Do you want to start putting vapor recovery systems on your roadster?
How about catolitic converters on the zoomies of your g***er?

Please call everyone on this list NOW

 

It just goes to show what a bunch of *****s we have as senators. This jack*** has tried to get some BS bills through the sneeky way, I say we start a recall pe***ion on him!!!

 

Here's their e-mails in a copy and paste format

senator.torlakson@sen.ca.gov, senator.aanestad@sen.ca.gov, senator.ashburn@sen.ca.gov, senator.cedillo@sen.ca.gov, senator.dutton@sen.ca.gov, senator.florez@sen.ca.gov, senator.kuehl@sen.ca.gov, senator.runner@sen.ca.gov, senator.simitian@sen.ca.gov

 

I'm really surprised Dean Florez isn't spearheading this one, he is AWFUL about stuff like this! Looks like Dave Jones rivals him at the top of the **** list.

 

Btt

 

Pay attention to pre-holiday session's. They've done it in the past. Start digging the dirt on the worst of them. Fight fire with fire.

 

I have said it before last time this was up (seems like only a couple months ago?), this kind of law is just asinine and off the mark! This coming from someone who lives in Berkeley and even has a Prius for the family car. Just a bunch of misguided fruitless **** and probably a thinly disguised effort to increase revenues for whatever reason. More revenue is probably the biggest reason why it might have a pretty good chance of sticking this go around as they can't seem to get their **** together to actually make a real budget that works.

But, regardless of this law, this kind of sneaky back door politics is totally unacceptable and worth fighting for that alone. This kind of **** is what has to stop, not a very very few people driving some older cars that just don't really amount to much in the big picture. We need to p*** some laws to have bills presented and voted on on their own merit, not snuck in to something that doesn't even have anything to do with it. This is the kind of stuff that has to stop. I think I will be mentioning that in my messages as well.

This really kind of pisses me off to be honest.

 

Bump for the late nighters

 

I'm still pissed - s*** bags need to be stopped!

 

****'n politicians.......they make Lawyers look like they have integrity!!!!

 

Now that is funny!!

 

Don't forget to respond to this. Not everyone can afford a new car/truck. Plus, doing an annual check is another bunch of money paid to the rich boys. Make phone calls this morning.

 

Historic note here; When the California Air Resources Board (CARB) came up with the first set of standards for clean air, the performance industry jumped into the fray and HOT ROD, CAR CRAFT, POP HOT ROD and even MOTOR TREND did stories on SBC motors that met and exceeded CARB standards on emissions. So, the tree huggers came up with an addendum to the CARB standards that included a VISUAL CHECK. In other words, if the engines didn't look stock, they wouldn't even be tested.

Environmentalists are fast becoming the strongest special interest group at the state and local levels. In California, they have as much or more clout then trial lawyers!

Keep up the good fight!

 

ha ha ha!!!

 

Public office is were Lawyers go after they have been dis-barred