Hello again! I’m going to be asking you to send some (free) faxes to some of our state senators and assemblymen again, but first I’ll lay a little news on you, let you know where we stand in the historic struggle to hang on to our Fairgrounds:
1. It helps to know we have TWO WEEKS to make sure our representatives vote yes on Jose Solorio’s AB 1590 to stop the sale – the vote in the Assembly is scheduled for the second week in January, and we still have eight or nine Orange County politicians to convince, so let’s make every day count!
2. Obviously Solorio is on our side – and remember to thank him whenever you see him! Also Jim Silva, assemblyman of Huntington Beach who was always against the sale, has signed on to the bill. Word is now though that VAN TRAN of Fountain Valley, who had agreed to co-sponsor the bill, now appears to be looking for a way to weasel out – so we are adding him back on to the list of folks to fax!
3. We hear fro
m reliable sources that Senator Mimi Walters (R-Laguna Niguel) is planning to recuse herself on the issue due to some conflict her husband has; it will be interesting to find out more details about that. So she’s not a yes vote or a no vote, but at least that narrows down the legislators we need to focus on.
4. And those are: FOUR SENATORS: Lou Correa (above left), Tom Harman (below left), Mark Wyland and Bob Huff. AND SIX FIVE ASSEMBLYMEN: Chuck DeVore (above right), Diane Harkey (below right), Curt Hagman, Jeff Miller, Tony Mendoza, and the backsliding Van Tran. We’ll focus on each of these ten targets over the next two weeks, BUT FOR NOW, FAX A
S MANY OF THEM AS YOU CAN. UPDATE – Diane Harkey is on our side now! Thank her if you’ve got a minute, at 949-347-7301
Even if you don’t have a fax machine, you can send two free faxes a day, and as many as you want for $2 each, by going here: https://faxzero.com/ You don’t even have to prepare a document first: they give you a text box to write your message, which can be very simple today – Please vote yes on AB 1590, to stop the sale of the OC Fairgrounds!
I’ll put the ten Fax numbers at the end of this post (“over the flip”) but first let me repeat this from my last post: I know many of you already sent a few faxes a couple weeks ago, but don’t forget: lobbyists for the rich and powerful don’t make one call or e-mail and walk away with their fingers crossed. THEY ARE IMPLACABLE BADGERS, AND WE MUST EMULATE THEM. Click for the fax numbers:
Senator Tom Harman 714-957-4560
Senator Lou Correa 714-558-4111
Senator Bob Huff 909-598-6459
Senator Mark Wyland 949-489-8354
Asm. Chuck DeVore 949-863-9337
Asm. Van Tran 714-668-2104
Asm. Jeff Miller 949-598-7170
Asm. Tony Mendoza 562-863-7466
Asm. Curt Hagman 909-627-1841
AND starting Tuesday, we’ll give them each special treatment! Stick with me, and we’ll make this thing happen!!!
I have emailed to my two legislators State Senator Bob Huff and Assemblyman Curt Hagman to support the bill and stop the sale of the OC Fairgrounds.
Yeah, we can’t give up now. Everyone needs to realize our fairgrounds will go to the highest bidder unless we have our representatives stop the sale. Our American culture and history is not for sale!!!
We should also e-mail them as well. If you look at the Del Mar Fairgrounds site, they had the e-mail addresses of their associated representatives. The spoke up and fought for their fairgrounds and they won!
http://www.sdfair.com/index.php?fuseaction=about.save_fairgrounds
What would happen if the fair grounds were sold?
If not sold, (the new bill) Where would you (the state)collect tax money to make up the required diff?
The Costa Mesa site was an old air base, there are at least 2 other old air bases more than big enough for the fair to be held.
First of all the Fairgrounds send plenty of tax money to Sacramento as it is, and Orange County sends way over our fair share of taxes as well. Why are you so eager for us to pay even more by giving up what many of us consider the county’s crown jewel? Except that I know you Robin Cook, and you just like to be different.
Others may chime in with their own responses, but I’ll just say we LIKE it where it is in Costa Mesa. And if it moves, there’s no guarantee that the less-profitable but very popular parts of the Fair would be welcome at a new location (horseback riding, Centennial Farm, 4-H, etc. etc.) And probably no new swap meet either. OR gun shows! (shoutout to “Banned in Santa Ana”)
You can send another two free faxes at GotFreeFax.com
Yeah, the gun show operators were run out of Anaheim. If apartments or condos are built we will lose the only gun show in Orange County. Insult to injury as the whole reason we are fighting for our fairgrounds is to protect our American history and culture. That, and we shouldn’t be going into debt because of what Ellis and Ackerman did.