Well there you have it. Rep Greenlick is "certainly happy to discuss it with anyone" so the door is at least a little open. Any ideas on how to react? David Pearl www.MetricPioneer.com 503-428-4917
----- Message from Rep Greenlick <rep.mitchgreenl...@state.or.us> --------- Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 17:18:46 +0000 From: Rep Greenlick <rep.mitchgreenl...@state.or.us> Subject: RE: Representative Greenlick Support for LC0044_DRAFT_2015_Regular_Session.pdf To: "cont...@metricpioneer.com" <cont...@metricpioneer.com>
I am certainly happy to discuss it with anyone. mg ------------------------- FROM: cont...@metricpioneer.com [cont...@metricpioneer.com] SENT: Wednesday, August 13, 2014 8:05 AM TO: Rep Greenlick CC: Rep Boles SUBJECT: Re: Representative Greenlick Support for LC0044_DRAFT_2015_Regular_Session.pdf mg. Thanks for responding. I must say that I feel very disheartened upon reading your response. The U.S. Metric Association - www.metric.org - has been working for nearly a century (since 1916) on a national solution, and we almost achieved our goal in the 1970s, but our federal leadership dropped the ball, so a state-by-state effort seems to be the next best thing, just as the GLBT Marriage Rights issue is now a successful state-by-state effort. It took America a looooong time to achieve Civil Rights. America will eventually undergo proper metrication but it would be better sooner rather than later. Now is better than later. Your focus determines your reality. Americans have been on measurement training wheels for a century and a half since what was then known as the Metric System (International System since 1960) was made legal in the United States with the Metric Act of 1866. (Inches, pounds, gallons et cetera were NEVER made legal in the United States.) Our nation is in great need of measurement reform for so many reasons. Children are dying every day in the United States at the hands of their own parents due to medication measurement errors; that alone should be reason enough, but there are so many other reasons as well. I beg you to reconsider. Please at least discuss this important legislation with people. dp - David Pearl www.MetricPioneer.com 503-428-4917 ----- Message from Rep Greenlick <rep.mitchgreenl...@state.or.us> --------- Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2014 23:31:36 +0000 From: Rep Greenlick <rep.mitchgreenl...@state.or.us> Subject: RE: Representative Greenlick Support for LC0044_DRAFT_2015_Regular_Session.pdf To: "cont...@metricpioneer.com" <cont...@metricpioneer.com> Cc: Rep Boles <rep.denycbo...@state.or.us>Thank you for your message, Mr. Pearl. First of all I do not think this has any chance of being taken seriously by the Oregon Legislature.. That has not stopped me from supporting somewhat hopeless measures in the past, if I thought they were great ideas. But this is one problem that I think needs to have a national solution. I do not think there is any rationality to a state-by-state solution to this international problem. mg ------------------------- FROM: cont...@metricpioneer.com [cont...@metricpioneer.com] SENT: Friday, August 08, 2014 8:31 PM TO: Rep Greenlick SUBJECT: Representative Greenlick Support for LC0044_DRAFT_2015_Regular_Session.pdf Dear Representative Mitch Greenlick. I met with Representative Denyc Boles Tuesday about LC 44. She suggests that I contact you because she says that you have been around a long time and that someone with some clout would have to support this legislation in order for it to have any chance of becoming law. I urge you to support LC 44 (attached) for several reasons, including the following: There are very strong economic and scientific reasons for Oregon to adopt the International System of Units (SI). The cost of not using the SI is increasing with the trend toward globalization. Failing to adopt the SI could result in the United States losing its competitive edge in science and technology and in continuing to create bilateral trade impediments with other countries. The cost of adopting the SI would be quickly recovered by the economic benefits of global interoperability; and this is particularly important as the dominance of United States companies is being challenged in the competitive atmosphere of globalization. Adopting the SI would likely result in the creation of many jobs and better prepare the current and future workforce of the United States to work in the international marketplace. Hawaii has similar legislation pending (HB36). Oregon pioneered the Bottle Bill and now several states benefit from that effort; so please consider supporting LC 44 so that Oregon will continue to lead the way with good ideas for our great nation. David Pearl www.MetricPioneer.com 503-428-4917----- End message from Rep Greenlick <rep.mitchgreenl...@state.or.us> -----
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