I attended what was supposed to be a "summit meeting" on April 3rd in
Sacramento. Supposedly this was to form an alliance between GSMOL, CoMoCal, and CMRAA. CMRAA, of course, had allied
with GSMOL three years ago in an effort to provide a united front in the halls of the legislature when pushing new bills.
It worked very well.
The plans are that the three state wide groups will coordinate legislative support or opposition to mobile
home bills, depending upon whether or not they help or hinder us. Affiliated with the 3 main groups will be local, county
and city HOA orginizations throughout the state, such as SCMOA and SRMOA in Sonoma/Santa Rosa area - and all the way south
to San Diego - and north to the Oregon border.
Their names will be listed as support groups, giving more authority to the "umbrella" group. We proved
in the last 2 years that CMRAA and GSMOL working together got more attention from the legislators. This coalition
will exponentially be louder and stronger.
you will find a complete list of State Assembly Members and their telephone numbers. Find your District
and phone (or e-mail) your representative to either express support or opposition to those bills we support or oppose.
It's as simple as that. The more phone calls they get, the harder they listen, and the closer they will pay to the bill.
If, on the other hand, you live somewhere within, say, a 2 hour driving distance, you might want to get
a couple of your neighbors together to physically attend the committee hearings. The more bodies we have in support the more
positive attention we get.
The idea is that you have to get involved to some extent. We can only do so much without your active
support. Remember Propositions 98/99? The groundswell of active residents throughout the state getting involved
by writing and calling their representatives, by going out into the community and passing out flyers, by writing letters to
the editor created such a massive wave of support that we handily defeated what could have been a devestating loss to us.
We need to continue those activities at some level in order to keep us on the front burner of political actions.
