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Hello everyone,
Just taking a few minutes to update everyone here. I have emailed EVERY single member of the Senate Judiciary committee in the Kentucky Senate, asking them to please support bringing Senate Bill 102 to the agenda so that we can have hearings on this bill and attempt to get it out of committee. Additionally, I have emailed the Senate leadership and asked them to encourage the committee chair to place it on the agenda.
One of the methods I have used is to let them know how many people in THEIR individual senate districts could potentially be impacted by this bill. The demographic numbers are courtesy of the NIH survey, and big thanks go out to the KCDHH for compiling that data from the NIH results, it makes it much easier to lobby individuals. If you are a Kentucky resident who would like to contact their State Senator or State Representative, please get in touch with me here, and I will help you obtain the numbers of people with a hearing loss in the area where you live.
One other thing, a commenter on a previous blog post suggested I start a Facebook page for this cause. Well, I've had one in place for more than a year, dating back to my attempts to get a similar bill passed in 2009 in Kentucky. If you have not already done so, please feel free to join at the below link, we have 576 members and growing!:
http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/gro
Eddie
Just taking a few minutes to update everyone here. I have emailed EVERY single member of the Senate Judiciary committee in the Kentucky Senate, asking them to please support bringing Senate Bill 102 to the agenda so that we can have hearings on this bill and attempt to get it out of committee. Additionally, I have emailed the Senate leadership and asked them to encourage the committee chair to place it on the agenda.
One of the methods I have used is to let them know how many people in THEIR individual senate districts could potentially be impacted by this bill. The demographic numbers are courtesy of the NIH survey, and big thanks go out to the KCDHH for compiling that data from the NIH results, it makes it much easier to lobby individuals. If you are a Kentucky resident who would like to contact their State Senator or State Representative, please get in touch with me here, and I will help you obtain the numbers of people with a hearing loss in the area where you live.
One other thing, a commenter on a previous blog post suggested I start a Facebook page for this cause. Well, I've had one in place for more than a year, dating back to my attempts to get a similar bill passed in 2009 in Kentucky. If you have not already done so, please feel free to join at the below link, we have 576 members and growing!:
http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/gro
Eddie
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