Why don't you go to his website, and leave him a polite email asking him
to reconsider and withdraw the legislation? I did.

The only way to get politicians to respond to the public is for the public
to show that they are paying attention. Sadly most of the time they are not

Don W.

Tom R. wrote:
I read in the New York Times this weekend that Sen. Rick Santorum (R PA) has
introduced a bill to limit the amount of information that the National
Weather Service, a taxpayer funded organization, may disseminate to the
public. Apparently, Sen. Santorum has accepted campaign contributions from
several private weather services located in Pennsylvania which have
complained to him that information disseminated by NWS is too much
competition for the pivate services and they want to restrict the free flow
of weather information. Duh? Is there something wrong with this picture?

Tom R.

Since I believe he has already been bought and paid for, I wrote to both of
my Senators instead.

"Don W" wrote in message
m...
Why don't you go to his website, and leave him a polite email asking him
to reconsider and withdraw the legislation? I did.

The only way to get politicians to respond to the public is for the public
to show that they are paying attention. Sadly most of the time they are
not

Don W.

Tom R. wrote:
I read in the New York Times this weekend that Sen. Rick Santorum (R PA)
has introduced a bill to limit the amount of information that the
National Weather Service, a taxpayer funded organization, may disseminate
to the public. Apparently, Sen. Santorum has accepted campaign
contributions from several private weather services located in
Pennsylvania which have complained to him that information disseminated
by NWS is too much competition for the pivate services and they want to
restrict the free flow of weather information. Duh? Is there something
wrong with this picture?

Tom R.

Tom R. wrote:
Since I believe he has already been bought and paid for, I wrote to both of
my Senators instead.

While I don't have enough personal knowledge one way or the other about the
Senator's ethics, your approach is a good one. I just emailed both of the
TX senators to alert them to this issue.

Don W.

I hope your senators are more responsive the Barbara Mikulski here in
Maryland. She's a democrat in a state where they'd vote democratic
even if she'd burned an orphanage the night before.

NWS is very underfunded. I know the gentlemen who ran the office for
the weather faxes and you wouldn't believe the heart ache they go
through and few resources they have.

My impression is that the Democrats are believers in big government, and lots
of government services. Seems like they would be supporting expanding the NWS
services since they are a visible government service which helps save lives
of both pilots and boaters.

Maybe I'm wrong on that though (sigh).

Don W.

boatgeek wrote:
I hope your senators are more responsive the Barbara Mikulski here in
Maryland. She's a democrat in a state where they'd vote democratic
even if she'd burned an orphanage the night before.

NWS is very underfunded. I know the gentlemen who ran the office for
the weather faxes and you wouldn't believe the heart ache they go
through and few resources they have.