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Neila Seaman, MPA
Director
Sierra Club, Iowa Chapter
3839 Merle Hay Road, Suite 280
Des Moines, IA  50310
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515-277-8868



>From: Dewayne Johnson <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: FWD: Bottle Bill Under Attack
>Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 13:43:30 -0800 (PST)
>
>Friends:
>
>I received the following message today from a member
>who I typically believe to be a moderate, find common
>ground, don't rock the boat person.
>
>Basically, she's fed up with the stall tactics of the
>grocers that are going to lead to the eventual demise
>of the Bottle and Can Bill.
>
>She said, "What we need here is to start broadcasting
>the unvarnished truth.  They're trying to make this
>thing as inconvenient as possible so people hate it.
>First it was machines, then daily limits, now they
>won’t take them at all.  If we don't get people to
>wake up, we're going to lose."
>
>She asked me if I would be willing to forward this
>message to our members and friends on the Bottle Bill
>issue.  She wasn't sure how else to reach all our
>groups, so I said I'd pass it along and ask you to do
>the same.
>
>Please keep calling and writing your legislators on
>this.  If you think they're pro-Bottle Bill, call
>anyway... they need to hear from you to stay strong.
>If you think they don't like the Bottle Bill, call
>anyway... if enough of the 90% of us that believe it
>works will call, maybe the public can win one.
>
>If there’s additional info I can provide, please let
>me know.
>Dewayne
>
>------- FORWARDED MESSAGE ---------
>
>Convenient Redemption is UNDER ASSAULT!!!!!!
>
>Grocers have decided that convenience is something
>they get to determine for you.  THEY have decided to
>not take cans back after 26 years of providing a safe
>and convenient redemption system.  THEY have chosen to
>tell us what is right and what is wrong.  THEY have
>chosen not to listen to us their CUSTOMERS and have
>flaunted the law of the State in the fall and now
>fight legislation that will have them continue to be a
>critical part of our successful redemption system.
>
>THEY have chosen to not allow legislation to move
>forward so that THEY can kill the Bottle Bill which
>has been THEIR goal for years.  Without the
>convenience of taking it back to where you buy it the
>law will fail because we the people will be
>inconvenienced all because THEY want it that way so
>that the public can become discouraged and less
>supportive.
>
>That is what THEY want.  THEY know it and THEY are
>trying to make it happen.  Too bad the days of the
>local grocer are gone.  The day where THEY were truly
>concerned about our communities is gone forever.  Now
>THEY are now generally corporate grocers and love us
>for our money not our loyalty.
>
>Contact your legislator today and let them know that
>you want convenience and the ability to take it back
>where you bought it.  It is the common sense way.
>
>This is not a political issue as the legislature likes
>to picture it. The two greatest Republican leaders in
>the State Gov. Ray and Branstad stand strongly behind
>the convenience issue as does the Democratic Party.
>Then why has this become such a divisive issue?  Call
>your legislator and ask them.
>
>We must act now or watch the Bottle Bill fail.
>
>
>Dewayne Johnson, Executive Director
>Iowa Recycling Association
>2742 SE Market Street
>Des Moines, IA  50317
>
>515.265.1596 (phone)
>515.265.6690 (fax)
>
>www.iowarecycles.org

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