Dino Giacomazzi

3 bills by dean florez that are tremendously devastating to your local dairy farmer are being heard in the Assembly Ag Committee in Sacramento this Wednesday.

You can help the California dairy farmer by hopping on a bus, taking a free ride to Sac, placing your butt in a chair for an hour or two, then come back home. You can even speak if you want.

Please consider this an opportunity to directly influence the legislative process with your warm body, (which, by the way, is 10,000 times more effective than email)

Here is the information on the trip. Hope you will plan to attend. If you plan to attend or have any questions please email me directly to: dino at giacomazzi dot US.

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Get on the bus for pooling bill hearing Wednesday in Sacramento – - Legislation to amend the Gonsalves Milk Pooling act will be heard by the Assembly Agriculture Committee on Wednesday, July 1. The hearing on SB362 by Senator Dean Florez (D-Shafter) will be held at 1:30 p.m. in Room 126 of the Capitol. Western United Dairymen is organizing a bus ride for producers interested in attending the hearing to voice their opposition to the bill, which if passed would have a significant adverse impact on producers. The bus will begin in Visalia and make stops to pick up members in Fresno, Merced, and Modesto. SB362 is being actively opposed by WUD, the Dairy Institute of California and the Alliance of Western Milk Producers, & California Farm Bureau Federation. Three other bills by Florez will be heard that day, all off of which will impact agriculture.

Bus schedule:

7:15 a.m. Depart from Holiday Inn, 900 West Airport Drive, Visalia

8:10 a.m. Depart from Radisson Hotel, 2233 Ventura Street, Fresno

9:20 a.m. Depart from Hampton Inn, 225 South Parsons Avenue, Merced

10:15 a.m. Depart from Doubletree Hotel, 1150 Ninth Street, Modesto

The bus will arrive in Sacramento at approximately 11:30 a.m., allowing time for lunch before the hearing begins at 1:30 p.m. The hearing is expected to last until about 4 p.m. June 26, 2009