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It was just announced this morining. The Pere Marquette and the Blue Water will be shut down if the Govener approves it. Here's what it says: Subject: URGENT MICHIGAN ACTION ITEM: Contact Governor Granholm Importance: High To NARP Members in Michigan, August 6, 2004-- The final fiscal 2004 Supplemental Appropriations bill approved by the Michigan House and Senate late Wednesday night (before they adjourned for the summer recess) contains very serious anti-Amtrak language. The text of Section 805 reads as follows: "Sec. 805. Except as otherwise provided in this section, a public transportation entity shall not receive state operating assistance for a scheduled regular route service which is competing with another private or public carrier over the same route. In situations where there is a duplicate service, either both the public and private carriers shall receive the same level of operating assistance or neither one shall receive operating assistance." This language, if signed by the Governor, would bring an end to the Pere Marquette and Blue Water. We have been told that that when the contents of the bill were explained to the individual members, there was no mention of the fact that this language was added. So in other words, members were never given an opportunity to express their opposition to the language. At this point, the only way to remove the offending language is for Governor Jennifer Granholm to use the line-item veto. Please contact Governor Granholm immediately and ask her to strike Section 805 from the fiscal 2004 Supplemental Appropriations bill. You may contact Governor Granholm as follows. Since time is of the essence, U.S. Mail is not practical: Lansing: Phone (517) 373-3400, Fax (517) 335-6863 Detroit-area office: (313) 456-0010 Upper Peninsula office (Marquette): (906) 228-2850 You may also send an e-mail to the Governor via. webform at http://www.michigan.gov/gov/0,1607,7-168-2...65331--,00.html (note that you will not receive a response) Thank you as always for your efforts to preserve these rail services! --David Johnson NARP Assistant Director Regards, The Team [:0][:0][:0][:0]
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