----- Original Message ----- From: "downtobusiness" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, 2001-06-06 04:10 Subject: Good interview today with Ehlers! [Yahoo! Clubs: Metric America] > Today I spent 30 minutes with Congressman Ehlers, from 1000 until 1030, on my radio show. He DID file a bill last year which would mandate that any business subcontracting with NASA or certain other governmental agencies would be required to deal in metric only. He DID fire off a few news releases about it at the time. He DID more or less drop the matter for a while. > > He has now again filed the same bill with a bit more enthusiasm and with some teeth in it. This time the bill provides that all losses to the government, due to somebody (Lockheed, Mars?!) failing to use metric would be paid by the company which had failed to use metric. > > Ehlers explained on the radio that he is completely pro-metric and that he would do more, much more, if only he felt he had a chance. > > For now he would ask our help in contacting members of the House Science Committee in favor of his current effort. > > He will be on my show again in about one month to talk more about metrication. > > Please, please, this ought to be one easy easy very simple opportunity for a united effort. If you are for metric, or if you merely pretend to be for metric, either way, please contact Congressman Ehlers in support of his pro-metric efforts, and please contact your member of Congress to ask that your own member sign on as a co-sponsor, and please contact all members of the Science Committee to ask them to be co-sponsors. > > And some of you might want to call Ehlers to offer to come speak at any hearings on the bill. > > Sincerely, > Andy Johnson > former member, Florida House > (I know I wish to hell somebody anybody would have come to speak in Committee 20 years ago when I attempted metric legislation at the state level. Even a few letters, even a few visits, can sometimes make a difference, often making life much easier for the guy carrying the load.) > > --------------------------------------------- > DO NOT REPLY TO THIS MESSAGE BY EMAIL! > --------------------------------------------- > You have chosen to receive messages from "Metric America" by email. > > Reply to this message: > http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/metricamerica/bbsfrp?action=r&tid=metricamerica &sid=12177109&mid=1061 > > Unsubscribe from the Club mailing list: > http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/metricamerica/config/change_mb_list > > Return to "Metric America": > http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/metricamerica > ---------------------------------------------- > > Not a member? Remove yourself from this list: > http://edit.clubs.yahoo.com/config/unsubscribe_mb_list?.userID=millitesla&.g roupID=metricamerica&.groupType=&.code=kqkKEmys7C >
