VERY IMPORTANT for all VA Athletes

This can't be a viable bill. I have a lot of experience in state legislatures, and know that many more bills are proposed than have any chance of passing.

Many crazy ideas are proposed in bills. Before you get too concerned about this, do you have any reason to believe that this bill has political legs under it?

JustMom,

Can't imagine it has any chance at all, but I'll e-mail a couple of friends in the legislature.

I fully agree it shouldn't and won't pass but in this state, anything is possible, that is why we need to spread the word about this stupidity..

next thing you know there will be a proposal that NO cows are allowed in Strasburg.. Then what would Hokie1 do Miss ya Hokie, see ya at CNU in February

JustMom: great catch! Absolutely incredible that one of our elected officials let this get this far. Hope all is well with you and family. How's Chris doing? Mike is finally back to 100%. Take care.

Thanks for the heads-up. The way I read the description of the bill it would affect not only youth leagues, but high schools and colleges. What is that NOVA moron thinking about sponsoring a bill like this. I did my part by emailing both my legislators.

JT I e-mailed my legislators as well, and also the knucklehead listed below who proposed this piece of CR#@, I mean legislation.

Delegate Robert D. Hull
(D) - House District 38


In-session address: Mailing address:
General Assembly Building, Room 803
Capitol Square
Richmond, Virginia 23219
(804) 698-1038

DelRHull@house.state.va.us

Stupidity at it's best.

Just like people buy homes near an airport and complain about the noise from the airplanes or the ones that buy a house on a major highway and complain about noise from traffic??????? duh.


I have made my concerns known in Richmond regarding this useless legislation.


CV

I emailed Hull last night and also emailed my Delegate. Everyone needs to do this, don't ever assume that these idiots wouldn't pass something. It wouldn't be a bad idea if everyone emailed the entire committee, if it doesn't get out of committee than it's dead.

Well......I sent Mr. Hull an email too.....he probably doesn't think he needs to worry about an opinion from California....but I still feel better telling him exactly what I thought of this piece of proposed stupidity!

Besides we will probably retire to VA....in the next couple of years.....gotta see son play some college baseball!

GO HSC Tigers!

I' ve also e-mailed Hull and my delegate.

America at it best!

Anybody hear anything back from their reps? Me, neither--maybe because I used to form on the website. I also found out my rep is part of the committee the bill was sent to, so I emailed him directly. Hopefully, this "piece of" legislation
will die a rapid death.

I emailed my delagate, David Poisson. He responded less that 12 hours later. Stating that he had a 14 year old daughter playing sports, along with the fact that the needs of an entire community outweighed those homeowners who might be looking for more quiet, he assured me in no uncertain terms that he would vote NO on this bill IF it ever made it to the house floor.

I got a reply back from my representative. He doesn't think that it will ever make it out of committee, so we'll see...........

My delegate said it was sent to the committee that pretty much kills all bills.

If anyone heres back from the idiot sponsor Robert Hull, it will be interesting to see what he has to say.

I wonder how much money is wasted on this in Richmond.

I heard from my Delegate, he actually had to send a blanket e-mail to everyone who had contacted him.

He is against it.

Here is a link to an article in Today's Washington Post page 1 ! I'm also putting part of the article below (I think you have to "register" to read the Washington Post links. I guess all you have to do is ask rep Hull to submit legislation for you and he will. What an idiot!

Bill to Quiet Ballfields Creates an Uproar

...the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors condemned the bill and its sponsor as politically tin-eared, insensitive and just plain dumb.

"I'm glad to see that most members of the General Assembly are still in touch with their constituents," an exasperated Fairfax Supervisor Michael R. Frey (R-Sully) said at yesterday's meeting of the board, which voted unanimously to oppose Hull's bill.

...Hull's aides said they have received at least 1,000 e-mails opposing the bill as a threat to the very existence of youth sports, with a few from homeowners associations in support. "They've been nasty," aide Jackie Dilley said yesterday. But despite the tumult, the low-profile seven-term delegate from the Falls Church area isn't backing down -- even though he said he doesn't support his own bill.

"My bill was introduced because a gentlemen came up to me with a problem," Hull said before the 100-member chamber

Dilley, in between answering phones, said she could not identify the person who proposed the bill because her boss told her not to give out his number. "The sports groups are so vindictive. I can't,"

Here's an idea since Delegate Hull will introduce legislation that anyone suggests to him, lets compile a list of our idea's!!!! I'll collect them and e-mail him.

Here's a start
1- Propose legislation that fines a delegate $5000.00 when he sponser a bill that receives less than 5 yes votes.

2- Propose legislation that if you do not respond to e-mails, phone calls as a delegate you are impeached, and must work at athletic fields in your district as a volunteer (only on nights and weekends)!

I emailed everyone on the committee yesterday and received emails back from Delegates, Janis, Barlow, Albo and Waddle and they all are adamantly against this bill or anything that resembled it. They were all very cordial and told me to call them if I wanted.

Something else of note from the Washington Post article - Delegate Hull introduced the bill on a complaint from one person, who does not even live within his district!

Okay.....we're back on to retire in Virginia!

No, no ... I think you have this all wrong.

I think we should go back to playing ball in the side yards. Or at least the yard next to the delegate's house.

I think we should pass this bill ... and then I want to go into the glass window business.

The Bill is now officially dead. Last rites were given yesterday by Delegate Hull, who verbally back-tracked faster than any NFL defensive back has ever back-pedaled.....

What a Stupid idea.

Fairfax residents should remember this when Hull comes up for re-election. He need to be made an example of. All the youth leagues in the STATE need to get together and run a strong campaign against him with TV and newspaper adds.

Lawyers.. YUK!!!

Now wait just a cotton pickin' lawyerin' minute, the idiot that proposed this bill is NOT an attorney....

JT....my son wants to be a lawyer......after he finishes playing in the CWS and MLB World Series....

So.....be careful what you say about that fine and respectable profession.....

GO H-SC Tigers!

Bless you LadynMom!

I just KNEW I'd wake up the VA forum with a good lawyer crack. BTW--my wife works for a law firm, so don't take it personally.

This bill was killed (stricken) on a unanimous vote in committee, so you don't have to worry about it.

legistlative link shows this was stricken from the docket on the 30 of Jan. Sounds good.