One More Pitch For Rep. Froerer's H.B. 218

Have at it folks! Let's get those legislative switchboards and email inboxes lit up!

You're either part of the solution or part of the problem.

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With the end of the Utah legislative work week fast dwindling to a close, we'll take one last crack at trying to entice our readers to offer their input on the matter of Rep. Gage Froerer's H.B. 218 (Municipal Disincorporation Revisions) bill, which has been re-set for hearing before the House Government Operations Committee at 8:30 a.m. on Friday.

During the course of the past week, this topic has dominated the Weber County Forum front page; and as a result of our laborsome appeals to our concerned readers, we have managed to generate a fair number of emails to Rep. Froerer and HGOC members, urging the committee's passage of this crucial remedial legislation. Nevertheless, neither Rep. Froerer nor your blogmaster are as yet satisfied that we've managed to tap the full breadth of our readership's political activism. Frankly, we'd like to see Rep. Froerer waltz into Friday's hearing with a wheelbarrow full of supportive emails, rather than the handful he has as of now.

So as a consequence, we'll once again re-post the email links and other contact data which will conveniently allow readers who haven't yet chimed in on the subject to get in touch with the folks who'll decide whether this bill will be a) killed in committee, or b) passed on to the full House for debate and deliberation... where the bill belongs:

For those who'd like to contact Gage Froerer directly to register support for this bill, we provide his legislative profile page and email addy below:

• Rep. Gage Froerer -- gfroerer@utah.gov

Rep. Froerer also strongly suggests that our readers contact the full HGOP Committee, to demonstrate that this bill isn't merely a parochial "backwoods" issue, and that its passage has broad support not only from citizens in the Ogden Valley area, but statewide, too. We've therefore put together a bulk email link for this purpose, for the benefit of those readers who'd like to contact the full committee via a single email:

• 2010 House Government Operations Standing Committee Contact Info

Let's get crackin' folks. Time's now running out. We've been following this issue for at least two years. And what a disappointment it would be, we believe, if Rep. Froerer's remedial bill, which would restore the voting rights of a substantial group of Ogden Valley residents who were innocently clobbered by a bone-headed legislative mistake, were to die an untimely death this week in committee.

For those readers who need a refresher course on the historical dynamics which led to Rep. Froerer's introduction of H.B. 218, check out the brief summary article below:

• Introduction to the Powder Mountain Town Voting Rights Issue

Have at it folks! Let's get those legislative switchboards and email boxes lit up!