I thought I would take a few minutes and update everyone on the status of the work that has been done throughout the weekend and last few days.
The Board has hired Rini-Coran to represent WISPA through this Broadband Stimulus Legislation and Rulemaking time period, which may be one month or may be six, no one really knows. The Legislative Committee which is Chaired by Tom DeReggi worked through the weekend developing our talking points and strategy. They held a conference call with Steve Coran on Monday. Steve worked late last night writing a first draft of a letter to be sent to House and Senate Leadership positions. The letter was sent to the Legislative committee and the Board for editing and was finalized today. The letters have been put on WISPA letterhead, have been signed and sent to all Leadership positions in the House and Senate via fax a few minutes ago. Tom and Steve will be working on a letter to send out to the membership later this evening. This email should include "Talking Points" to which each of you can call your local Senator offices tomorrow and tell them about your business, WISPA and what we (WISPA) would like to see. This quote is from Steve Coran a few minutes ago. "The Legislative Committee members are to be congratulated for the enormous amount of volunteer time and effort they have put into this. It may look like a simple two-page letter and a one-page set of talking points, but we all know that it took a lot of thoughtful and intelligent debate, writing and editing to produce a position that reflects the importance of the legislation to WISPA. This is just the first step, but I am personally very thankful to Tom for his leadership and to all of the Committee members for their cooperation and contributions under some very tight time frames." Thanks to all who have helped by sending money, donating time or have helped in any other way such as calling or writing your Congressmen or Senators. Respectfully, Rick Harnish -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
