{"id":4187,"date":"2011-05-09T21:55:58","date_gmt":"2011-05-10T02:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thedustininmansociety.com\/blog\/?p=4187"},"modified":"2011-05-10T09:37:12","modified_gmt":"2011-05-10T14:37:12","slug":"hb-87-working-with-rep-matt-ramsey-for-the-last-nine-months-on-the-language-and-contents-of-the-landmark-bill-and-in-the-capitol-committee-process-has-been-a-great-pleasure-and-unforgettable-honor-i-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/2011\/05\/09\/hb-87-working-with-rep-matt-ramsey-for-the-last-nine-months-on-the-language-and-contents-of-the-landmark-bill-and-in-the-capitol-committee-process-has-been-a-great-pleasure-and-unforgettable-honor-i-a\/","title":{"rendered":"HB 87 &#8211; Working with Rep. Matt Ramsey for the last nine months on the language and contents of the landmark bill and in the Capitol committee process has been a great pleasure and unforgettable honor. I am very proud to call Matt &#8220;friend&#8221; and &#8220;brother&#8230;&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A note of thanks&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Georgia Governor Nathan Deal has promised to sign HB 87 into law. It is impossible to explain how grateful I am to all of you for your help, support, encouraging words and your phone calls, faxes and emails to get our bill to Governor Deal&#8217;s desk and make history on state enforcement. We got the bill through with the E-Verify component intact despite millions of dollars spent lobbying against us. Not to mention the AJC.   <\/p>\n<p><strong>WE THE PEOPLE WIN!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Working with Rep. Matt Ramsey for the last nine months on the language and contents of the landmark bill and in the Capitol committee process has been a great pleasure and unforgettable honor. I am very proud to call Matt &#8220;friend&#8221; and &#8220;brother.&#8221; If you look up &#8220;Great American&#8221; you will likely see a photo of Matt Ramsey!<\/p>\n<p>I am also very grateful to Matt for the long-standing invitation to be present at the bill signing. I look forward to that day with great pride.<\/p>\n<p>On HB 87, we both feel like proud and dedicated parents. The list of people to thank for their invaluable assistance &#8211; both inside the Capitol and out &#8211; is very long. It must be remembered that HB 87 was built on the foundation laid by Georgia state Senator Chip Rogers and the 2006 Georgia Security and Immigration Compliance Act &#8211; SB 529. <\/p>\n<p><strong>! THANK YOU MATT RAMSEY! THANK YOU GOVERNOR DEAL! THANK YOU CHIP ROGERS!<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>See the Arizona Governor sign that state&#8217;s most recent immigration bill (SB 1070)  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xoJbS9-KTAY&#038;feature=player_detailpage\">HERE<\/a> . It was quite a proudly presented event!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>ACTION NEEDED<\/strong>: I hope that you will take just a minute to send a short e-mail or make a phone call to Georgia state  RepresentativeMatt Ramsey&#8217;s Capitol office to simply say &#8220;<strong>THANK YOU FOR YOUR COURAGE ON HB 87!&#8221; <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www1.legis.ga.gov\/legis\/2011_12\/house\/bios\/ramseyMatt.htm\">  Contact info HERE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A note of thanks&#8230; Georgia Governor Nathan Deal has promised to sign HB 87 into law. It is impossible to explain how grateful I am to all of you for your help, support, encouraging words and your phone calls, faxes and emails to get our bill to Governor Deal&#8217;s desk and make history on state [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4187"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}