Maybe the fact that NY is the last piece of the puzzle will encourage them to adopt the amendment if the request is framed that way?
Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE smartphone-------- Original message -------- From: Al Lawrence <[email protected]> Date: 08/08/2015 9:59 PM (GMT-08:00) To: [email protected], "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]> Subject: RE: [USMA:54803] Re: letter to NYS Governor Andrew Cuomo on UPLR Amendment In 2011 Mike Sikula was appointed the new director of the NY state Department of Weights and Measures. At that time I wrote him asking about the status of the amendment. His response was simply "This has not been shelved but there has been little movement on it." Although this was not a particularly encouraging comment, I was impressed that I was not sent a standard form letter and that he or someone in his office actually took the time to directly respond to my question. Perhaps this is someone worth contacting. Date: Sat, 8 Aug 2015 22:58:56 +0000 From: [email protected] To: [email protected] CC: [email protected] Subject: [USMA:54803] Re: letter to NYS Governor Andrew Cuomo on UPLR Amendment Paul: So glad you took this initiative to write to the governor. I'm wondering if there are other folks who have contacts in the NY legislature who could help get the permissive SI-only labeling amendment to the UPLR approved in that state. Regards,Ezra From: "Paul Trusten" <[email protected]> To: "ezra steinberg" <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, August 8, 2015 3:17:56 PM Subject: Re: [USMA:54800] letter to NYS Governor Andrew Cuomo on UPLR Amendment On Aug 8, 2015, at 13:00, [email protected] wrote: Dear Paul, When did Alabama finally adopt the UPLR amendment? It was about 2009 or so, courtesy of the hard work of one man named Tim Williamson. And it sounds from your letter like the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the US Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Northern Marianas have also adopted this amendment. Is this correct? Yes, exactly correct! So, with NYS, the national jigsaw puzzle will be complete, the metric-only option will be acceptable in the "states United," so NO one can say that it cannot be accepted in the United States. Looking ahead to the FPLA, Ye gads---everyone in America knows what one or two liters of beverage is now, and they're MARKETING these products in liters. Drop the 67.6 fl oz declaration from a two-liter bottle, and no one will care. The ace in the hole here is that the UPLR and FPLA amendments are VOLUNTARY rules. They grant permission. They mandate nothing. So, they cost nothing. I was finally inspired to write to Gov. Cuomo about because of the Lincoln Chafee candidacy and the continuing advance of metric-only dosing of oral liquid medications, but especially due to that deal about the enhanced handicap symbol now being used ONLY in New York State, which is this: thanks!Ezra From: "Paul Trusten" <[email protected]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, August 8, 2015 9:34:59 AM Subject: [USMA:54800] letter to NYS Governor Andrew Cuomo on UPLR Amendment Dear Governor Cuomo, (at https://www.governor.ny.gov/contact) I understand that New York State prides itself as being the first state in the Nation to adopt the enhanced International Symbol of Access (the so-called "handicap symbol") showing a dynamic wheelchair passenger propelling his chair forward. Why, then, is your state going to be the LAST state to adopt a progressive consumer labeling option on the metric system? Since 1999, the model Uniform Packaging and Labeling Regulation (UPLR) has provided manufacturers with the choice of showing only metric units on non-federally regulated product labels. From that year to the present, 55 out of 56 U.S. jurisdictions have adopted this voluntary regulation. ONLY New York State has not! Yet, your weights and measures law demands that voluntary and orderly conversion to the metric system "is of vital importance to the economy of thet state" (Article 16, Sec 176). When it adopts the UPLR metric option, New York State stands to go down in U.S. history as the state that paved the way for national choice in advancing metric measurement. I hope you will urge your officials to make this no-cost option available to New Yorkers. I shall certainly urge all New Yorkers to join in such support. SIncerely, Paul R. Trusten, Registered Pharmacist Vice President and Public Relations Director U.S. Metric Association, Inc. 3609 Caldera Boulevard, Apartment 122 Midland TX 79707-2872 (432)528-7724 www.us-metric.org [email protected]
