[ladyknight]

If you made those calls and emailed, tell us about it here.

Maybe some just aren't sure what to write or don't know what to say. Post your letters here as examples for others to use.

Post your phone dialog here also. Together, we will win this war.


EMAIL INFO HERE:

Call Your Councilman & Demand that this 4th Ordinance not be accepted! REJECT THIS 4th ORDINANCE.
We need a more compassionate & sensible ordinance put in place! Flood them with your calls and emails.


Let's bombard them with calls before we lose safe access in Los Angeles. Call EVERY District DAILY!


District 1 - Ed Reyes

City Hall Office (213)-473-7001

District 2 -

City Hall Office (213)-473-7002

District 3 - Dennis P. Zine

City Hall Office (213)-473-7003

District 4 - Tom LaBonge

City Hall Office (213)-473-7004

District 5 - Paul Koretz

City Hall Office (213)-473-7005

District 6 - Tony Cardenas

City Hall Office (213) -473-7006

District 7 - Richard Alarcon

City Hall Office (213)-473-7007

District 8 - Bernard Parks

City Hall Office (213)-473-7008

District 9 - Jan Perry

City Hall Office (213)-473-7009

District 10 - Herb J. Wesson, Jr.

City Hall Office (213)-473-7010

District 11 - Bill Rosendahl

City Hall Office (213)-473-7011

District 12 - Greig Smith

City Hall Office (213)-473-7012

District 13 - Eric Garcetti

City Hall Office (213)-473-7013

District 14 - Jose Huizar

City Hall Office (213)-473-7014

District 15 - Janice Hahn

City Hall Office (213)-473-7015

[otisblue]

Council-member ,

I would like to request your office to outright reject the 4th
Ordinance regarding the council’s stance on Medical Marijuana. The
city must work with patients, medical providers and caregivers to
develop a working policy towards Medical Marijuana.

I am a near senior age, and have a horrible chronic illness, which I
am treated by a MD monthly. He and my other MD’s have agreed that
Medical Marijuana helps me with my condition. I have had a written
recommendation for the past four years and have used marijuana to
successfully treat my condition.

How dare the city council, or the DA, thwart the California law that allows me safe access to my medicine, as had been the case for the past many
years.

Since the medicine works well, and I have had safe access to it, I
am very concerned that I will now have to get my meds from a street
dealer or a related drug cartel to stay well?

I am appalled that the DA has decided to use precious city resources
to close down the source of my medicine. Our city resources are
spread thin and this is a waste of the city’s time and money.

It has been reported that over 5,000 untested rape kits have gone
untested due to the lack of funding in the city. What are the city’s
priorities? What are your priorities in the council?

As a member of the city council, it is your duty to protect and
uphold the laws for the citizens that elected you.

This week, a well-known medical marijuana clinic was virtually
destroyed by the LAPD. Why was this allowed to occur? There must be
a workable plan to allow patients safe access to our medicine. These
smash and dash raids must stop immediately.

It is hereby requested that you help secure the right of the
terminally and chronically ill patients in Los Angeles to obtain
medicine in a safe environment. It is not acceptable for the council
to rush through the 4th Ordinance that will result in numerous
expensive court challenges, and the loss of safe access for
thousands of patients.

Your help in this matter is needed and expected.

With Thanks,

[greensleeves]

I called the representative in my district and left a message that I am a registered voter and I wanted their take on Ordinance 4, I asked them to reject this ordinance. I thought I was late getting involved with this and now LadyKnight tells me only a couple of calls have been made. Emails and protest may not be enough. This is unbelievable and very frustrating. What is everyone waiting for?

[tanja]

I called the first7 yesterday. How can there be only two calls if I"m one??? I'm irritated and live in SB so was trying to save money on the phone bill, but who cares about that now??? I'm calling the rest of the list today or tommorow just because I"m pi$$ed now. I suspect they are lying about something, mabey many things.
Come on people if I can call so can you !!!
1love and respect to lady knight
T

[forcefield]

Here's some "talking points" I've used in letters, e-mails, and phone calls:
-Law Enforcement has so many other priorities, making life hard for patients should not be one of them.
-The city cannot afford to get sued, especially in this recession.
-Shutting down clinics only helps the drug cartels and forest-land illegal growers.
-Law enforcement are expected to follow the laws of California, which they are sworn to uphold.

Those are just a few points to make. Don't be afraid to stand up for your rights!

[Justonevoice]

For an example of a letter to council please see this thread : Write a letter to City Council Today- Here is mine

[Justonevoice]

Give me some time and I will post a script for calling council offices

[Greenbud]

Per LadyKnight's request, here's the letter I sent last week to Garcetti and the other 14 CM's.

Dear Honorable Councilmember Garcetti,

I am a resident of CD-8, an U.S. citizen and a registered voter and wish to bring a serious misuse of taxpayer dollars to your attention.

According to a recent Los Angeles Times article from Oct. 8, 2009, there are over 3,100 rape test kits that have to be tested by the LAPD DNA crime lab and there are reports that civilian employees and critical staff may need to be furloughed due to budgetary cut-backs. These rape kits represent 3,100+ victims of violent crimes that remain in fear while their rapists remain at large.

With such few financial resources the city and the LAPD have to work with, I'm flabbergasted that the city and LAPD would choose to allocate precious dollars towards raiding medical marijuana dispensaries when this money should have been used instead to tests many of those rape kits. I understand each LAPD raids costs taxpayers approximately $10,000 which begs the question, just how many rape kits could have been tested using this money? It's reprehensible that the city leadership believes that medical marijuana dispensaries pose a greater threat to the community than rapists at large. For that is the message sent; that the city thinks spending money on raids is money well spent rather than using this money to pay for rape kits.

Think about it, in the halls of power someone decided that the victims of rape, who surely go to bed each night in fear because their rapists remain at large, come second in priority. With all due respect, sir, someone with a reputation for defending victims of rape and domestic violence, like yourself, should have stepped up to defend these victims of rape and demanded that before a single red cent is wasted on medical marijuana raids, a non-issue to President Barack Obama and the rest of California, those funds should have been routed to pay for as many rape kits as a raid would cost. We're talking about the women and children in our community, Councilmember, the mothers, wives, daughters, and sisters who look to your leadership to provide them with protection. Do you honestly subscribe to the belief that medical marijuana is such a grave danger that it deserves priority over testing rape kits, fingerprints in robberies, etc? How can you do so and look at the women in your community in the eye?

Therefore, I urge you to advise the LAPD and the City Attorney and the entire city leadership to not spend a single cent more on raiding medical marijuana dispensaries and route those intended dollars towards paying for the aforementioned rape kits or other forensic tests languishing due to funds to pay for their testing.

To this end, I also urge you to reject the latest proposed ordinance, the fourth presented to you for consideration, and enact a more sensible ordinance that allows safe access to patients to their medicinal marijuana and which allows for cash to be tendered in compensation for the donation requested. As you are aware, this is clearly in keeping with the opinion of the Attorney General of California that store front dispensaries that use cash as a means of remuneration is 100% legal so you must make sure this is a requirement of any proposed ordinance. Since some patients rely on edible cannabis for relief and cannot smoke their medicine for whatever reason or simply do not have access to a vaporizer, I urge that you propose that any ordinance allow for edible forms of cannabis.

If you pass a ordinance that is fair and compassionate, the LAPD no longer need to raid dispensaries and limited resources would be better allocated to investigating and solving real crimes. Please consider the women who are counting on you to put them first.

Thank you for your time and consideration. I respectfully am requesting a response from you in writing or by telephone.

Sincerely,

GB

[Justonevoice]

For those whom would like to call a council persons office and do not know what to say the following is a script for your convience;

Hello, My Name is ____________. I am a resident of Los Angeles and a registered Voter. I am calling to ask that council persons name to Vote against accepting the 4th Medical Cannabis Ordinance that is being presented by the City Attorney’s Office and accept the Reyes Ordinance with minor changes reflecting the suggestions made from ASA,GLACA and other advocates of medical cannabis patients in Los Angeles. Thank You for your consideration.


I hope that helps every patient take the time to call and even keep calling.

[Justonevoice]

Make them calls, write them letters (and send them) email today do it now everything that you need to do it is here in this thread.

[1stimer]

What is the Reyes ordinance and what changes were recommended?

[Justonevoice]

change to allow edibles, privacy for cultivators,no expensive survailence system attached to lapd etc.

[THC_TLC]

I called!

It took about 15 minutes to call and talk with each district representative's office.

THEY ARE ALSO GETTING CALLS TO SUPPORT THE 4TH ORDINANCE.

Every one of us needs to call:



District 1 - Ed Reyes

City Hall Office (213)-473-7001

District 2 -

City Hall Office (213)-473-7002

District 3 - Dennis P. Zine

City Hall Office (213)-473-7003

District 4 - Tom LaBonge

City Hall Office (213)-473-7004

District 5 - Paul Koretz

City Hall Office (213)-473-7005

District 6 - Tony Cardenas

City Hall Office (213) -473-7006

District 7 - Richard Alarcon

City Hall Office (213)-473-7007

District 8 - Bernard Parks

City Hall Office (213)-473-7008

District 9 - Jan Perry

City Hall Office (213)-473-7009

District 10 - Herb J. Wesson, Jr.

City Hall Office (213)-473-7010

District 11 - Bill Rosendahl

City Hall Office (213)-473-7011

District 12 - Greig Smith

City Hall Office (213)-473-7012

District 13 - Eric Garcetti

City Hall Office (213)-473-7013

District 14 - Jose Huizar

City Hall Office (213)-473-7014

District 15 - Janice Hahn

City Hall Office (213)-473-7015

[Justonevoice]

More calls,letters and emails needed,c'mon folks we can do this! If you have not done it yet please do it now everything needed to do so is in this thread if you do not know what to say or write.

[VooDoo Chile]

BUMP!!!!!!!!!! C'mon people now, smile on your brother, everybody get together, try to call the city council right now!!!!!!!!!!

[Justonevoice]

Originally Posted by VooDoo Chile

BUMP!!!!!!!!!! C'mon people now, smile on your brother, everybody get together, try to call the city council right now!!!!!!!!!!

Right now,Right now!!!!!

[VooDoo Chile]

Okie Dokie folks- I done made my calls and lemme give y'all a few tips!

First off, I copied 'n pasted the list of phone numbers onto a word document. Then I copied 'n pasted JOV's awesome script onto the very top o' said document for easy viewing!

Secondly, I wanna let y'all know that the folks I spoke with were mighty frustrated! Two of them told me they'd been swamped with calls about this (GREAT JOB FOLKS!), two others told me they didn't want specific comments; they were merely taking "polls." Then two more transferred me to voicemails, which is a polite way of saying we don't give a shit about you. I read the script on their machine anyway! Others were down right RUDE!

But don't let rude staffers deter ya! Keep going! The lady from Park's office was especially shitty and tried to distort my words! She attempted to trick me into saying that I was for Trutanich's Ordinance! I ended up repeating my stance for her THREE TIMES! WOW. Like I said- if these people are pissed, that's a great thing! It means we're getting this thing DONE! So like I say, no matter how crappy they are to ya, stay positive, keep going, and be polite! I gots a great feeling about this one people!

[ladyknight]

You go girl and thanks for the tips!

[ladyknight]

Originally Posted by Justonevoice

For those whom would like to call a council persons office and do not know what to say the following is a script for your convience;

Hello, My Name is ____________. I am a resident of Los Angeles and a registered Voter. I am calling to ask that council persons name to Vote against accepting the 4th Medical Cannabis Ordinance that is being presented by the City Attorney’s Office and accept the Reyes Ordinance with minor changes reflecting the suggestions made from ASA,GLACA and other advocates of medical cannabis patients in Los Angeles. Thank You for your consideration.


I hope that helps every patient take the time to call and even keep calling.

Phone Dialog if needed

[Justonevoice]

I agree w/VDC it is very important to remain polite while speaking to these people.

[Justonevoice]

More calls,letters and emails needed,c'mon folks we can do this! If you have not done it yet please do it now everything needed to do so is in this thread if you do not know what to say or write.

[valleydude]

Thank you to "Just One Voice" who suggested this be posted here.


Los Angeles NORML Letter Writing Party @ Bruce Margolin's Office, Sun Nov 1st, 9-11:30 AM

This was originally posted in Politics but it was suggested it be posted here, did not see a category for NORML. Hope this is the right place and hope that people will circulate this notice within the community.

NORML representatives will be speaking about the 3 raids and arrests by LAPD on collectives yesterday (10/28/09) in the San Fernando Valley as well as the raid by LAPD last week on Craig Rubin's Temple 420.

Please attend if you can.

Los Angeles NORML Letter Writing Party @ Bruce Margolin's Office, Sun Nov 1st, 9-11:30 AM


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NOTE: We are extending an invitation to ALL patient activist groups to attend and participate. We are also asking all activist organizations to please circulate this notice to your members as we need to put our collective thoughts together and come up with a plan. Thank you.

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Los Angeles NORML will be hosting a "Letter Writing Party" get together on Sunday morning November 1st at Bruce Margolin's Law office in West Hollywood from 9-11:30 am.

We are asking people to give us an hour of their time, that's all. More would be great.

The purpose of the meeting will be to discuss the current situation in Los Angeles and also to write letters to Los Angeles city officials about the medical marijuana ordinance that will then be hand delivered to each council members office on Monday Nov 2nd.

Also letters will be written to state officials urging support of AB 390, the Ammiano bill.

In talks with aides to council members it has become clear that we need to start an old fashioned letter writing campaign. Many aides have told me to "have your people write letters instead of yelling outside".

What we are told constantly is that politicians like to look at stacks of letters from constituents and point to them and say "look at all these letters I get about this". Apparently emails and phone calls have a much less effect, they are tallied and quantified but letters are actually read.

And the more letters we write the greater our impact will be.

This could be groundbreaking, getting all the local activist patients and groups together to plan a unified action.


What: Los Angeles NORML Letter Writing Party

Date: Sunday November 1, 2009

Time: 9-11:30 Am

Where: Law Offices of Bruce Margolin
8749 Holloway
West Hollywood, Ca 90069

We look forward to seeing you Sunday Nov 1, 2009.

Yes we cannabis!

[Justonevoice]

More calls,letters and emails needed,c'mon folks we can do this! If you have not done it yet please do it now everything needed to do so is in this thread if you do not know what to say or write.

[Justonevoice]

Have you written that letter yet? Made the call?

More calls,letters and emails needed,c'mon folks we can do this! If you have not done it yet please do it now everything needed to do so is in this thread if you do not know what to say or write.

[ladyknight]

Originally Posted by ladyknight

If you made those calls and emailed, tell us about it here.

Maybe some just aren't sure what to write or don't know what to say. Post your letters here as examples for others to use.

Post your phone dialog here also. Together, we will win this war.


EMAIL INFO HERE:

Call Your Councilman & Demand that this 4th Ordinance not be accepted! REJECT THIS 4th ORDINANCE.
We need a more compassionate & sensible ordinance put in place! Flood them with your calls and emails.


Let's bombard them with calls before we lose safe access in Los Angeles. Call EVERY District DAILY!


District 1 - Ed Reyes

City Hall Office (213)-473-7001

District 2 -

City Hall Office (213)-473-7002

District 3 - Dennis P. Zine

City Hall Office (213)-473-7003

District 4 - Tom LaBonge

City Hall Office (213)-473-7004

District 5 - Paul Koretz

City Hall Office (213)-473-7005

District 6 - Tony Cardenas

City Hall Office (213) -473-7006

District 7 - Richard Alarcon

City Hall Office (213)-473-7007

District 8 - Bernard Parks

City Hall Office (213)-473-7008

District 9 - Jan Perry

City Hall Office (213)-473-7009

District 10 - Herb J. Wesson, Jr.

City Hall Office (213)-473-7010

District 11 - Bill Rosendahl

City Hall Office (213)-473-7011

District 12 - Greig Smith

City Hall Office (213)-473-7012

District 13 - Eric Garcetti

City Hall Office (213)-473-7013

District 14 - Jose Huizar

City Hall Office (213)-473-7014

District 15 - Janice Hahn

City Hall Office (213)-473-7015