SCFC Newsletter Get out and vote – 29 Oct 10:50 AM

Hello, Members! Here is some information for members to get politically active and vote especially those that live in West Milton, the Islands, and S

Hello, Members! Here is some information for members to get politically active and vote especially those that live in West Milton, the Islands, and St Albans. Please read below for more details. "You might not be interested in politics, but politics is interested in you!" as we saw this past legislative session in the state house. They passed several gun laws and banned coyote contests. Why? Because they didn't hear from us! What's next if they don't hear from us? It was already stated before they left the state house this session that anything that was cut or didn't pass would be proposed again after the election. Which means the ban on semi-auto will return along mandatory insurance. REMEMBER THE GUN LAWS THEY PASSED THIS YEAR? REMEMBER THE GUN LAWS THEY PASSED THIS YEAR? Reminder to all members that Voting Day is coming up fast! We encourage ALL members to get out and VOTE! Not registered? Register online, here is the link: https://olvr.sec.state.vt.us/ Voter Apathy is Not an Option Election Day is impending and our folks really need to vote. If our folks do not vote it can be expected there will be an expansion of gun control legislation in Montpelier. Folks the greatest strength is to stand together in the protection of the rights and traditions that our folks hold in great respect. Our folks who often sit out involvement, like voting, are very much needed to vote. The NRA candidate ratings are being updated as more candidates are providing completed questionnaires. The NRA candidate grades are available via the link below. There is explanation of the grades included. https://www.nrapvf.org/ Saint Alban's Residents: Gun Controllers running in your district Saint Alban's Residents: Gun Controllers running in your district Two candidates, Kate LaRose and Mike McCarthy, in Franklin 3-1 are running for the House support gun control and the laws passed this year. Here are their responses from an interview in the St Alban's Messenger: """" Larose: We want public policies and laws that make Vermont safer. Protecting our families and communities from gun violence tops this list. I believe that supporting the second amendment goes hand-in-hand with keeping guns out of the hands of dangerous people. For example, Acts 92 and 97 ensure that weapons can be temporarily removed from a home in domestic violence situations, and when people pose an extreme risk to themselves or others. Act 94 will expand background checks in private sales, and raise the purchase age to 21. These are common sense gun laws that will keep us safer. We know that no law is 100 percent effective and enforceable…for example drinking and driving is illegal, but that doesn't stop everyone from driving while under the influence. But that is not an excuse to shy away from public policies that are known to save lives and makes us all safer. McCarthy: I support the package of reforms that were signed into law by Gov. Scott this past session. I don't see a conflict between common sense regulations, like making all gun sales subject to background checks, and the Second Amendment. I've heard from many parents who are concerned about school safety as well as people who are angry about some of the regulations, especially the limits placed on magazine capacity. We need to keep the conversation moving forward and strike the right balance in Vermont between the legitimate concerns that most of us have about gun violence with the rights that all of us have to responsible gun ownership. """" https://www.samessenger.com/house-candidates-st-albans-city/?fbclid=IwAR3Tt-f3mZsUwvrXGJTWu_SqU0Q-iM8Q3guVbArQQPCUa_HJquDQJ55qewo West Milton and Islands: YOU NEED TO VOTE! Rep. Mitzi Johnson, your representative and the HOUSE SPEAKER, led the way for these gun control laws to pass. She BARELY won that last election and is barely hanging on now! She holds the SECOND MOST POWERFUL SEAT in Montpelier, 2nd only to the Governor. She controls what laws get heard and passed and what laws don't! It would be a HUGE message to the Anti's that She does not win. It will also send a message to the State House that you don't mess with Vermont Gun Laws! An act of arrogance by Speaker Mitzi Johnson Submission from VTGuns "Under the Dome" Newsletter: An act of arrogance by Speaker Mitzi Johnson The Vermont Federation of Sportsmen's Clubs held its Annual Legislative Mixer in the Vermont State House and Speaker Mitzi Johnson was invited to speak to the hundreds of outdoors sporting and shooting community folks. However, even after requests for Mitzi Johnson to walk the few feet down the state house hallway, she declined to address the folks present. She did make the walk to the cafeteria to go through the buffet line and help herself a plate of free food paid for by the Federation. She then promptly walked right back to her office. Many folks would have liked to hear her field questions on several bills of interest to these folks like: *H.336, a bill that would restructure the Vermont Fish & Wildlife Board away from enacting viable regulations for fishing and hunting into a politically correct morass of restrictions. It would create inside the VT F&W Department an "advisory board" Read it for yourself: https://legislature.vermont.gov/assets/Documents/2018/Docs/BILLS/H-0336/H-0336%20As%20Introduced.pdf *H.591, a bill that would turn VT F&W boat launch areas away from the purpose for the federal funds used to create away from the mission sport fishing: https://legislature.vermont.gov/assets/Documents/2018/Docs/BILLS/H-0591/H-0591%20As%20Introduced.pdf *The gun control agenda being rushed forward in the House Judiciary Committee. Remember House Speaker Mitzi Johnson, who allowed the House Judiciary Committee to run completely wild with S.55 and other anti-gun, anti-hunting legislation? Remember Speaker Mitzi Johnson, who pulled those shenanigans with S.55 on the Floor of the House? Remember Mitzi Johnson, who has won by some very slim margins in several previous elections? he has very serious and capable opponents in Leland and Michael Morgan, in the contest for the two seat Grand Isle-Chittenden District:: Grand Isle-Chittenden Here is the Seven Days Article https://www.sevendaysvt.com/vermont/can-republicans-bring-down-house-speaker-mitzi-johnson/Content?oid=20697556 Centered text ©2018 Sportsman's Club of Franklin County | 851 Maquam Shore Rd. St. Albans Bay, Vermont Like   Web Version   Preferences   Forward   Unsubscribe     Powered by GoDaddy Email Marketing ®