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My money would be on 'certifiable mental illness'.

He is currently on "Disability Inactive Status" per Tenessee Supreme Court Rule 9, Section 21.

That isn't nearly as bad as some sort of overt moral turpitude; but it doesn't make your incoherent filing full of trivially verifiable nonsense and assorted non sequitors look any saner.

You do know that governors, the executive branch, don't write the laws, right? The authors are on the bill: http://state.tn.us/sos/acts/107/pub/pc0362.pdf. And in response to the posters below: do keep in mind, we're not ALL inbred cretins here in Tennessee. At least you'd better hope not, because we're running Oak Ridge, a couple of reactors, a couple of high explosives plants, and a facility that will produce 130,000+ metric tons of aluminum this year--not to mention controlling the headwaters of the largest river system south of the Hudson and east of the Mississippi. And that's just the most inbred, eastern, hillbilly side of the state. (Yes, I'm a little butthurt. As a native Tennesseean, bitching about the inbred cretins is MY job.)

Actually, the act text seems only to apply to images of people.

Source: http://state.tn.us/sos/acts/107/pub/pc0362.pdf

As I live in TN, I can't speak to your state. However in TN, stopping before turning right on red was always mandatory, just never followed in practice. The only people that really bitched about it were the ones that occasionally got pulled over and got a ticket (although most of the time the cops would probably let it slide).

Also in TN, we have our driver handbook available online. Not exactly the law, but good enough and easy enough to access and read through periodically. It's available here: http://state.tn.us/safety/dlhandbook/menu.htm . If you click on the study guide and go to page 16, it states:

"RED: Stop behind crosswalk or stop line. Unless otherwise posted, you may turn right on red after coming to a complete stop and when no pedestrians or cross traffic are present."

Pretty clear to me.

You don't think it's Jason Wesley Lawless of 43164 Crosswind Ter. Broadlands, VA 20148, born 12/31/1972 (birthday's coming up), at (571) 333-3347, do you?

It seems awfully stupid to go after a guy that the majority of Americans will end up calling a patriot when you haven't gone so far as to have an unlisted number. That said, there was a Jason W. Lawless, ADA, in Tennessee, and the Jason W. Lawless in Broadlands (DC suburb) did live in Nashville before. No doubt members of the press already know how to contact him...

Neither. The law specifically states that if their reasonable efforts aren't enough, no one can do anything to them.

Here's the portion that's relevant.

(b) Nothing in this section shall:
  (3) Waive the protections available to Internet service
providers under 17 U.S.C. 512;
  (4) Subject public institutions of higher education to any
suit whether for monetary damages, injunctive relief, or any cause
of action whatsoever;
  (5) Be deemed or construed to waive or abrogate in any
way the sovereign immunity of the state, the public institutions of
higher education, or any officer or employee of the state or the
public institutions of higher education or waive or abrogate in any
way the immunity of the state, the public institutions of higher
education, or any officer or employee of the state or the public
institution of higher education from suit under the 11th
Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.

Even though it is law, there is no threat to not following it or not doing enough or whatever. They follow the DMCA notices as required by law, Keep their immunities, and do something insignificant and call it reasonable.

Of course I would doubt that the making reasonable efforts would even come into play at all. The law says notices of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998. This has nothing to do with P2P or file sharing in general. The file sharing would come under the Digital Theft Deterrence and Copyright Damages Improvement Act of 1999. Of course if some one knows their content is being hosted there, the DMCA take down would be valid. It will be interesting to see how this actually plays out.

I just read the law itself - available at http://www.legislature.state.tn.us/info/Leg_Archives/105GA/bills/Chapters/PC0819.pdf

After reading that, i believe that you are correct. The law states that schools must make "reasonable efforts" but provides no penalty for doing absolutely nothing and does not even define "reasonable".

At most, your efforts or lack thereof are put into a report. oooh scary!

I can't see any true justification for an independent school to comply; there is a penalty (in $$) for complying and none for just blowing them off. State schools may be another matter, though.

However:

Similar to many other industries that are regulated, this law is basically a suggestion with a report card type progress report. If non-compliance is an issue then you can expect further legislation involving actual penalties for non-compliance.

Those reports will be taken into account by the legislature. If they are in the mood to (and have received enough $$), they will then enact a penalty phase since this law failed to gain traction (you know that's what the RIAA will push, even if schools do try to comply).

Who says millions of dollar are going to be spend that aren't already being spent?

The law only requires a network policy be in place, the students and teachers using the networks be instructed on the policy, that appropriate signed be places in conspicuous and appropriate area reminding students and teachers of the policy, and some reasonable action if they recieve more then 50 DMCA complaints.

No mention of millions of dollars, the first part, the network policy, and the instructing people about it are already done, Ok so someone has to design a sign and print it out on one of the existing computers and tape to a wall somewhere. Perhaps they go the luxury route and order signs from some company. Still, no millions of dollars. Probably a couple thousand per facility on the high end. You have the reasonable efforts to stop the infringment if more then 50 legally valid DMCA notices are present. So perhpas there is some money here, well reasonable doesn't mean you will do X. It doesn't mean that you have to redesign the entire network or do anything other then send recommitment contracts out where the students are required to receive the policy again and sign that they have a copy and will follow it. Perhaps they do some progressive service suspension or something when a complaint is made. None of this sounds like millions of dollars either.

BTW, reasonable is pretty subjective but the law specifically says no one can sue them or cause legal action against them over the law so it isn't like they will have to be defending their actions or lack of costing the millions of dollars

Before you get too pissed, how about looking at what the law says and does.

Read about the Battle of Athens, TN (page 438 or so)

Returning servicemen and women helped to bring
about a crisis of the old political order in Tennessee. In
the town of Athens on August 1, 1946--primary election
day--a pitched battle occurred between ex-GIs and
supporters of the entrenched political machine in
McMinn County. For over six hours the streets of Athens
blazed with gunfire as armed veterans laid siege to
the jail where the sheriff and fifty "deputies" had holed
up with the ballot boxes.

http://www.ticic.state.tn.us/sorsql?sql=sp_SOR_IMAGE+'SO001290'&contenttype=image/jpeg

Posting anonymous for obvious reasons. Guess how I found this one? Google image search for "Richard James". I was looking for Aphex Twin and got SQL injection instead. Lulz.

This is just another instance on a lengthy list of government funded projects that have completely inadequate security for the information they contain. Just the other day I was browsing through images on Google image search when I stumbled upon this gem: http://www.ticic.state.tn.us/sorsql?sql=sp_SOR_IMAGE+'SO001290' See that bit at the end? Any /. user worth his salt recognizes that as a SQL stored procedure at the end of that URL. What happens when you pass it a select statement to display all the table names in the database? http://www.ticic.state.tn.us/sorsql?sql=select%20TABLE_NAME%20%2B%20'|'%20from%20information_schema.tables It helpfully gives them to you. What about some interesting information? How about the first and last name of every sex offender in the state of Tennessee? http://www.ticic.state.tn.us/sorsql?sql=select%20'%5B'%2BFirstName%2B'|'%2bLastName%2B']'%20from%20SOR_Internet And we trust our personal and financial information to these people?

This is just another instance on a lengthy list of government funded projects that have completely inadequate security for the information they contain. Just the other day I was browsing through images on Google image search when I stumbled upon this gem: http://www.ticic.state.tn.us/sorsql?sql=sp_SOR_IMAGE+'SO001290' See that bit at the end? Any /. user worth his salt recognizes that as a SQL stored procedure at the end of that URL. What happens when you pass it a select statement to display all the table names in the database? http://www.ticic.state.tn.us/sorsql?sql=select%20TABLE_NAME%20%2B%20'|'%20from%20information_schema.tables It helpfully gives them to you. What about some interesting information? How about the first and last name of every sex offender in the state of Tennessee? http://www.ticic.state.tn.us/sorsql?sql=select%20'%5B'%2BFirstName%2B'|'%2bLastName%2B']'%20from%20SOR_Internet And we trust our personal and financial information to these people?

This is just another instance on a lengthy list of government funded projects that have completely inadequate security for the information they contain. Just the other day I was browsing through images on Google image search when I stumbled upon this gem: http://www.ticic.state.tn.us/sorsql?sql=sp_SOR_IMAGE+'SO001290' See that bit at the end? Any /. user worth his salt recognizes that as a SQL stored procedure at the end of that URL. What happens when you pass it a select statement to display all the table names in the database? http://www.ticic.state.tn.us/sorsql?sql=select%20TABLE_NAME%20%2B%20'|'%20from%20information_schema.tables It helpfully gives them to you. What about some interesting information? How about the first and last name of every sex offender in the state of Tennessee? http://www.ticic.state.tn.us/sorsql?sql=select%20'%5B'%2BFirstName%2B'|'%2bLastName%2B']'%20from%20SOR_Internet And we trust our personal and financial information to these people?

No, Registration fees pays for licensing and roads, the gas tax pays for road usage - at least in the vast majority of the 50 US states. Not knowing where you live I can not say for sure.

In Tennessee gas tax goes towards the Department of Transportation and is distributed according to this website and you will note that it goes towards *roads*, in fact the DoT isn't involved at all with the licensing and registration of motor vehicles. According to the Department of Safety (the department that issues them), 87% of their funding goes into the highway fund (basically whatever is left over after operating costs), however that includes things such as Handgun Carry Permits, tuition fees from the law enforcement academy, and several other funding lines.

The DoS's entire budget is less than the revenue from the gas tax, so there is absolutely no way that they could afford to keep the highway running on it, let alone just registration which is only a part of the DoS's funding. I shudder to think what the yearly one time fee per vehicle would need to be to cover it, not only that but the gas tax places the burden on those that use the system the most. In fact, the DoT's yearly budget is over double the DoS's entire revenue stream.

Again, this is fairly common amongst the US states, though I am sure some work differently.

As to if an electric is bypassing the tax - my guess is that yes, it is. As to what municipalities will do about I dunno. You are not paying for what you use, my guess is that right now so few have electrics that they do not really care. However that *will* change if/when there is a move away from gasoline as the roads will have to be repaired and the money has to come from someplace. As the saying goes - there is no such thing as a free lunch.

I'm not a big fan of taxes, but in this case the roads have to be payed for, the state has to be responsible, and this system scales the taxes you pay by your usage - seems about as fair and necessary a tax as I can think of. It has nothing to do with the middle east, oil, or how you run your car - only that you have to pay the collective for what you (as an individual) consume. In fact, it is rather surprising that they even have the tax free gas, if they were simply tax hungry and wanting to tell you what to do there would be no option and most wouldn't know the difference anyway.

Canada may not tax illegal behavior, but it is the quite common in the US. Look at Al Capone, he was locked up for failure to pay tax on illict gains. For example, Tennessee has an "Unauthorized Substances Tax" http://www.state.tn.us/revenue/tntaxes/unauthsub.p df

Somehow I can't see your friendly representative voting to ban political solicitations...

They are exempted from the federal rule http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/pubs/tmarkg/donotca ll.htm. Seems like most states do the same. Here's florida http://www.800helpfla.com/nosales.html and Tennessee http://www2.state.tn.us/tra/nocall.htm, for example.

come on guys, what with wireless laptops, just pull up outside some 'innocent's' house and use thier unprotected wireless modem and search/download away

The world is full of sneaky people. But the fact is, nothing comes with a guarantee. I don't care if you're the Pope of Rome, President of the United States, or even Sex Offender of the Year--something can always go wrong. And go ahead, listen for broadcast SSIDs, try to send your incriminating packets to your neighbor--while he quietly sends his to you. Now in Russia, they got it mapped out so that everyone shares their wireless with everyone else-- that's the theory, anyway.

But what I can tell you about is Tennessee. And down here, you're on your own. There aren't many wireless networks, and nobody is innocent.

Imagine that - billboards that present a simplified "sound bite" version of the real story. If you go to the Tennessee DMV web site, you'll see that proof of financial responsibility is the law. Car insurance is just an easy way of complying with the law, but you're not being forced to buy insurance.

This one appears dead.... for now.

I read the actual text of the statute, and it is pretty well drafted to try to fit within Constitutional requirements. They basical use the Supreme Court's definition of obscenity and work from there. The standard for restrictions on obscene speech is much less than that for non-obscene speech. The text of the statute seems quite likely to be able to pass constitutional muster. The problem will come in its enforcement and law enforcement's interpretation of the statute.

In case it hasn't been linked elsewhere: the text of the law.

Guess this means [the developers of America's Army] can't peddle their wares in the volunteer state anymore.

Is America's Army any more violent than the 1998 film Saving Private Ryan? The patent offensiveness and lack of artistic value requirements of the bill as I understand it are similar to those developed in the Miller test, making the regulation more aligned with that of hardcore pornography than that of mere R- or M-rated fare.

Sundquist wasn't voted out, he had reached the two-term limit, and couldn't run again.

Hmm, I guess I had forgotten about that. I remember him leaving office in disgrace, his popularity numbers in the gutter. He certainly would not have won re-election if he had been able to do so.

TennCare has been cut to the bone. It was a great concept - provide health care for everyone in Tennessee who couln't afford it otherwise - and it requires money to do that. These days, people are dying because their TennCare has been stopped, and the fallback resources are inadequate.

Claims like these are ridiculous because they are completely unsupportable. People die every day, and that's a shame. But that happens whether people have insurance or not. Just because people die without insurance doesn't mean they did not receive medical treatment. In fact, hospitals are required to treat Emergency Room cases for all patients, regardless of their ability to pay. It's a federal law, known as the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act.

And it appears that now-governor Bredesen is attempting to revive TennCare again, despite Alexander's attempts to get costs under control: http://www.state.tn.us/governor/viewArticleContent .do?id=694

If you're so keen on getting health insurance to people who can't afford it, why don't you contribute to a charity designed to do just that? Or, send donations to the TennCare program. Put your money where your mouth is.

assuming all the other data a typical periodic table [poster sized or wall chart] crams in to each element's box can be added to this depiction.

Don't you see that all the orbital or shells [that make for a confusing notation that chemists painfully memorize and physicists gleefully re-explain with Schroedinger's wave equations that mean nothing to most of us] are made much more intuitive in this representation? This new chart can still give those with no education in atomic physics the intuitive recognition of "what should come next", "what's missing" and "what will weigh more" as the old chart has. Consider that chem teachers are are told to regard as advanced any student who understands this notation[search for "Level 3, the student is able to...". Or considered how labored even a chem101 treatment of this material is.
One thing I will concede: Pauling's notion of "electronegativity", so useful to chemists, was clearly related to location of an element on the standard periodic table [changing most strongly as you traversed diagonally from lower left to upper right]...its not so clear here.

Game and Fish Laws - Prohibits computer-assisted remote hunting in the state; penalty is Class A misdemeanor. - Amends TCA Title 70, Chapter 4.

Game and Fish Laws - Prohibits computer-assisted remote hunting in the state; penalty is Class A misdemeanor. - Amends TCA Title 70, Chapter 4.

Every person, being eighteen years of age, being a citizen of the United States, being a resident of the state for a period of time as prescribed by the General Assembly, and being duly registered in the county of residence for a period of time prior to the day of any election as prescribed by the General Assembly, shall be entitled to vote in all federal, state, and local elections held in the county or district in which such person resides. All such requirements shall be equal and uniform across the state, and there shall be no other qualification attached to the right of suffrage.

That looks a whole lot like a right to vote to me.

info from the tennessee dept of revenue is available here but, can anyone find text of the ruling itself? that's what interests me, and google's not turning up much

Here is the Tennessee Department of Revenue press release on the matter.

The procedure to reclaim your refund per the Tennesee Dept. of Revenue

The form on Comcast's web page to fill out and mail in.

Why yes, I do live in Nashville and have been a Comcast cable modem customer for for several years.

I couldn't find anything on Google on the settlement. Try contacting the Tennessee AG.

As a Memphis resident and Nashville hater, I have to say that this doesn't surprise me.

Then I suppose that it WOULD surprise you that the bill's Senate sponsor is your own Senator Curtis Person. I'll give you a moment to recompose yourself.

More interesting (but, unfortunatly outlawed at our local range - only wood frame sanctioned targets now - twra has gotten the lease on our range and only hunting applicable targets are allowed) is a gallon milk jug full of water. Shot with a very hot .223 nozzler balistic tip out of a thompson contender (hottest load allowed) there is literally nothing but shreds left. It does better than the 30 short magnum my father recently bought (granted, we havn't reloaded any balistic tips in it for comparison).

The other really cool target for any centerfire ammunition is spray paint cans. You may be able to talk any local paint store in to either giving, or selling dirt cheap, defective spray paint cans to you - when we were allowed to shoot them some of the local paint shops gave them to us or sold them for 15 cents a peice. Nothing like a bright orange cloud of paint floating up after a solid hit with any high powered firearm.

I hope you are wrong. The governor of Tennessee, Phil Bredesen, is very computer literate and can understand the issues here as well as most people on /. We will see how this goes.
BTW The bill stipulates the expected cost to the state of Tennessee as follows:

"Estimated Fiscal Inpact:
Increase State Expenditures - $14,900/Incarceration
Assume one additional Class D felony conviction and one additional Class E felony conviction each year."
Available here. click on the live SB2013 link for the pdf.

Jail could put a damper on surfing, eh?

The Tennessee Do Not Call Program is funded by the telemarketers, which is exactly how it should be. Soliciters must submit an application and pay a $500 fee every year. Violations are subject to $2,000 fines per incident.

Hmmph. I seem to have jumped to an unwarranted conclusion. I found all kinds of sites that back up your assertions. I did find a Tenessee state site that indicates there is a provision for the state to maintain children's fingerprints, but it is solely at the discretion of the parents, and there is another page on the site indicating that any such prints held by the state are to be kept in a separate file to be purged once a year of prints belonging to people who have turned 18.

Thanks for pointing out my erroneous assumption.

Hmmph. I seem to have jumped to an unwarranted conclusion. I found all kinds of sites that back up your assertions. I did find a Tenessee state site that indicates there is a provision for the state to maintain children's fingerprints, but it is solely at the discretion of the parents, and there is another page on the site indicating that any such prints held by the state are to be kept in a separate file to be purged once a year of prints belonging to people who have turned 18.

Thanks for pointing out my erroneous assumption.

Same here. The no-call program is surprisingly effective.

Are you for real?

In Tennessee, the state requires NO other form of identification to get a drivers license. Since this was enacted by the governor, lines at drivers license stations AVERAGE 4 hours. English is not the most widely used language in these lines, either.

I mean, if I read that right, you just need a SSN to get a license, right? But then I read the actual Requirements and you need to have a birth certificate, and even more complicated, proof of residency. The SSN section goes:

Tennessee has a computer link with the Social Security Administration, so most
applicants will not have to present proof of the Social Security number. The computer
will simply return a message indicating the number matches (or it doesn't). However,
in case the computer link is down, and to make sure the examiner accurately records the
number, you should bring one of the documents listed below. These documents may also
serve as a second piece of identification, which you will need any way, so it makes
sense to bring them along when you can.

which sounds like what you said, but that's just for proof of... SSN. ;p You still have to meet the other couple of categories.

Maybe I'm misreading something?

TennCare

Unfortunately, due to mismanagement and fraud, it is having some problems. But at least sick needy people get some help.

We have a program like that in Tennessee. It works great -- I haven't gotten a single telemarketer call for over a year, and before I put my name on the list I was getting about 10/week.

The only thing I miss is getting to pick on the poor telemarketers. Oh well.

Nothing worse than sending off an e-mail and not knowing if it's even been received, yet alone if anyone's ever going to read it.

I'm speaking to you, david shepard

Rich

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Governor Kenny Guinn State Capitol Carson City, Nevada 89710 United States of America phone 1-702-687-5670, fax 1-702-687-4486 webpage http://www.state.nv.us/

Governor Jeanne Shaheen State House Concord, New Hampshire 03301-4990 United States of America phone 1-603-271-2121, fax 1-603-271-2130 e-mail nhgov@nh.com webpage http://www.state.nh.us/

Governor Christine Todd Whitman Office of the Governor State House, 125 West State St., CN-001 Trenton, New Jersey 08625-0001 United States of America phone 1-609-292-6000, fax 1-609-292-5212 e-mail page http://www.state.nj.us/governor/govmail .htm webpage http://www.state.nj.us/governor/officeo .htm

Governor Gary Johnson State Capitol Santa Fe, New Mexico 87503 United States of America phone 1-505-827-3000, fax 1-505-827-3026 e-mail gov@gov.state.nm.us webpage http://www.state.nm.us/

Governor George Pataki State Capitol Albany, New York 12224 United States of America phone 1-518-474-8390, fax 1-518-474-1513 e-mail gov.pataki@chamber.state.ny.us webpage http://www.state.ny.us/governor

Governor James Hunt, Jr. State Capitol Raleigh, North Carolina 27603 United States of America phone 1-919-733-4240, fax 1-919-733-2120 webpage http://www.sips.state.nc.us/

Governor Edward Schafer 600 E. Blvd, State Capitol, Fl. 1 Bismark, North Dakota 58505 United States of America phone 1-701-328-2200, fax 1-701-328-2205 webpage http://www.ehs.health.stat e.nd.us/gov/governor/index.htm

Governor Bob Taft State House Columbus, Ohio 43215 United States of America phone 1-614-466-3555, 1-614-466-9354 webpage http://www.state.oh.us/gov/

Governor Frank Keating State Capitol Bldg., Rm. 212 Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73105 United States of America phone 1-405-521-2342, fax 1-405-521-3353 e-mail governor@oklaosf.state.ok.us webpage http://www.state.ok.us/

Governor John Kitzhaber State Capitol Salem, Oregon 97310 United States of America phone 1-503-378-4582, fax 1-503-378-4863 webpage http://www.governor.state.or.us/

Governor Tom Ridge 225 Main Capitol Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17120 United States of America phone 1-717-787-2500, fax 1-717-772-8284 e-mail governor@state.pa.us webpage http://www.state.pa.us/PA_Exe c/Governor/overview.html

Governor of the Commonwealth Commonwealth of Puerto Rico San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936 United States of America webpage http://fortaleza.govpr.org

Governor Lincoln Almond State House Providence, Rhode Island 02903 United States of America phone 1-401-277-2080, fax 1-401-273-5729 webpage http://www.doa.state.ri.us/info/exec.htm

Governor James Hodges State House, PO Box 11369 Columbia, South Carolina 29211 United States of America phone 1-803-737-9540, fax 1-803-737-9507 webpage http://www.state.sc.us/

Governor William Janklow State Capitol, 500 East Capitol Ave Pierre, South Dakota 57501-5070 United States of America phone 1-605-773-3212, fax 1-605-773-5844 e-mail sdgov@gov.state.sd.us webpage http://www.state.sd.us /state/executive/governor/governor.htm

Governor Don Sundquist State Capitol Nashville, Tennessee 37243 United States of America phone 1-615-741-2001, fax 1-615-532-9711 e-mail dsundquist@mail.state.tn.us webpage http://www.state.tn.us/governor/

Governor George W. Bush State Capitol, P.O. Box 12428 Austin, Texas 78711 United States of America phone 1-512-463-2000, fax 1-512-463-1849 webpage http://www.governor.state.tx.us/

Governor Michael Leavitt 210 State Capitol Salt Lake City, Utah 84114 United States of America phone 1-801-538-1000, fax 1-801-538-1528 e-mail governor@state.ut.us webpage http://www.governor.state.ut.us/

Governor Howard Dean 109 State St. Montpelier, Vermont 05609 United States of America phone 1-802-828-3333, fax 1-802-828-3339 e-mail governor@state.vt.us webpage http://www.state.vt.us/

Governor Jim Gilmore State Capitol Richmond, Virginia 23219 United States of America phone 1-804-786-2211, fax 1-804-371-6351 e-mail page http://www.state.va.us/governor/govmail .htm webpage http://www.state.va.us/governor/

Governor Gary Locke State Capitol, P.O. Box 40002 Olympia, Washington 98504-0002 United States of America phone 1-360-902-4111, fax 1-360-753-4110 e-mail governor.locke@governor.wa.gov webpage http://www.wa.gov/governor

Governor Cecil Underwood State Capitol Charleston, West Virginia 25305 United States of America phone 1-304-558-2000, fax 1-304-342-7025 e-mail governor@state.wv.us webpage http://www.state.wi.us/governor/default .htm

Governor Tommy Thompson State Capitol, Room 115 East Madison, Wisconsin 53707 United States of America phone 1-608-266-1212, fax 1-608-267-8983 e-mail wisgov@mail.state.wi.us webpage http://www.wisgov.state.wi.us/

Governor Jim Geringer State Capitol Cheyenne, Wyoming 82002 United States of America phone 1-307-777-7434, fax 1-307-632-3909 e-mail governor@missc.state.wy.us webpage http://www.state.wy.us/gove rnor/text_governor_home.html

William Clinton President The White House, 1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW Washington, District of Columbia 20500 United States of America phone 1-202-456-1414 fax 1-202-456-2886 or 1-202-456-2461 (busy, keep trying) e-mail president@whitehouse.gov webpage http://www.whitehouse.gov/

House Majority Leader House of Representatives Washington, District of Columbia 20515 United States of America webpage http://www.house.gov/

House Minority Leader House of Representatives Washington, District of Columbia 20515 United States of America webpage http://www.house.gov/

Speaker, House of Representatives House of Representatives Washington, District of Columbia 20515 United States of America webpage http://www.house.gov/

Senate Majority Leader U.S. Senate Washington, District of Columbia 20510 United States of America webpage http://www.senate.gov/

Senate Minority Leader U.S. Senate Washington, District of Columbia 20510 United States of America webpage http://www.senate.gov/

Governor Don Seigelman State Capitol, 600 Dexter Ave. Montgomery, Alabama 36130 United States of America phone 1-334-242-7100, fax 1-334-242-4541 webpage http://www.state.al.us/

Governor Tony Knowles P.O. Box A Juneau, Alaska 99811 United States of America phone 1-907-465-3500, fax 1-907-465-3532 e-mail office_of_the_governor@gov.state.ak.u s webpage http://www.gov.state.ak.us/

Governor Jane Dee Hull State House Phoenix, Arizona 85007 United States of America phone 1-602-542-4331, fax 1-602-542-7601 webpage http://www.state.az.us/

Governor Mike Huckabee 250 State Capitol Bldg. Little Rock, Arkansas 72201 United States of America phone 1-501-682-2345, fax 1-501-682-1382 e-mail mike.huckabee@state.ar.us webpage http://www.state.ar.us/governor/gover nor.html

Governor Gray Davis State Capitol Sacramento, California 95814 United States of America phone 1-916-445-2841, fax 1-916-445-4633 e-mail hometeam@ca.gov webpage http://www.ca.gov/s/

Governor Bill Owens 136 State Capitol Denver, Colorado 80203-1792 United States of America phone 1-303-866-2471, fax 1-303-866-2003 webpage http://www.state.co.us/

Governor John Rowland State Capitol, 210 Capitol Ave Hartford, Connecticut 06106 United States of America phone 1-860-566-4840, fax 1-203-524-7396 e-mail governor.rowland@po.state.ct.us webpage http://www.state.ct.us/governor/

Governor Thomas Carper Legislative Hall Dover, Delaware 19901 United States of America phone 1-302-739-4101, fax 1-302-577-3118 e-mail ssnyder@state.de.us webpage http://www.state.de.us/governor/index.htm

Governor Jeb Bush State Capitol Tallahassee, Florida 32399 United States of America phone 1-850-488-4441, fax 1-850-487-0801 e-mail page http://www.state.fl.us/eog/govmailform. html webpage http://fcn.state.fl.us/gsd/

Governor Roy Barnes State Capitol Building, Room 203 Atlanta, Georgia 30334 United States of America phone 1-404-656-1776, fax 1-404-657-7332 e-mail governor@gov.state.ga.us webpage http://www.state.ga.us/

Governor Benjamin Cayetano State Capitol, Executive Chambers Honolulu, Hawaii 96813 United States of America phone 1-808-586-0034, fax 1-808-586-0006 e-mail gov@gov.state.hi.us webpage http://gov.state.hi.us

Governor Dirk Kempthorne State Capitol PO Box 83720, 700 West Jefferson, Fl. 2 Boise, Idaho 83720-0034 United States of America phone 1-208-334-2100, fax 1-208-334-2175 e-mail governor@gov.state.id.us webpage http://www.state.id.us/gov/govhmpg.htm

Governor George Ryan 207 Statehouse Springfield, Illinois 62706 United States of America phone 1-217-782-0244, fax 1-217-524-4049 e-mail governor@state.il.us webpage http://www.state.il.us/gov/

Governor Frank O'Bannon Statehouse, Rm. 206 Indianapolis, Indiana 46204 United States of America phone 1-317-232-4567, fax 1-317-232-3443 e-mail page http://www.ai.org/gov/gov_mail.html webpage http://www.ai.org/gov/index.html

Governor Thomas Vilsack State Capitol Des Moines, Iowa 50319 United States of America phone 1-515-281-5211, fax 1-515-281-6611 e-mail general.office@igov.state.ia.us webpage http://www.iowaccess.org/

Governor Bill Graves State House Topeka, Kansas 66612 United States of America phone 1-913-296-6240, fax 1-913-296-7973 e-mail page http://www.state.ks.us/public/g overnor/comment.html webpage http://www.state.ks.us/public/governor/

Governor Paul Patton State Capitol, 700 Capitol Ave. Frankfort, Kentucky 40601 United States of America phone 1-502-564-2611, fax 1-502-564-2517 e-mail governor@mail.state.ky.us webpage http://www.state.ky.us/agencies/go v/govmenu6.htm

Governor Murphy Foster, Jr. State Capitol, P.O. Box 94004 Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70804 United States of America phone 1-504-342-7015, fax 1-504-342-7099 e-mail page http://www.gov.state.la.us/governo r/contact2.htm webpage http://www.gov.state.la.us/

Governor Angus King, Jr. State House Station 1 Augusta, Maine 04333 United States of America phone 1-207-287-3531, fax 1-207-287-1034 e-mail page http://janus.state.me.us/govoffice/ gov_form.htm webpage http://janus.state.me.us/govoffice/ homepage.htm

Governor Parris Glendening State House Annapolis, Maryland 21401 United States of America phone 1-410-974-3901, fax 1-410-974-3275 e-mail governor@gov.state.md.us webpage http://www.gov.state.md.us/

Governor Paul Cellucci State House, Room 360 Boston, Massachusetts 02133 United States of America phone 1-617-727-6250, fax 1-617-727-9725 e-mail goffice@state.ma.us webpage http://www.magnet.state.ma.us/gov/gov.htm

Governor John Engler State Capitol, PO Box 30013 Lansing, Michigan 48909 United States of America phone 1-517-335-7858, fax 1-517-335-6863 email page http://www.state.mi.us/MIGOV/ gov/ContactGovernor.shtm webpage http://www.state.mi.us/migov/

Governor Jesse Ventura 130 State Capitol, 75 Constitution Avenue St. Paul, Minnesota 55155 United States of America phone 1-651-296-3391, fax 1-651-296-2089 e-mail Governor.JesseVentura@state.mn.us webpage http://www.mainserver.state.mn.us/gover nor/

Governor Kirk Fordice P.O. Box 139 Jackson, Mississippi 39205 United States of America phone 1-601-737-9540, fax 1-601-737-9507 e-mail governor@govoff.state.ms.us webpage http://www.state.ms.us/

Governor Mel Carnahan Missouri Capitol Building, P.O. Box 720 Jefferson City, Missouri 65102-0720 United States of America phone 1-573-751-3222, fax 1-573-751-1495 e-mail page http://www.gov.state.mo.us/guest.htm webpage http://www.gov.state.mo.us/

Governor Marc Racicot State Capitol Helena, Montana 59620 United States of America webpage http://www.mt.gov/governor/governor.htm

Governor Mike Johanns State Capitol, Executive Suite, PO Box 94848 Lincoln, Nebraska 68509-4848 United States of America phone 1-402-471-2244, fax 1-402-471-6031 e-mail jodee@mail.state.ne.us webpage http://www.state.ne.us/

Governor Kenny Guinn State Capitol Carson City, Nevada 89710 United States of America phone 1-702-687-5670, fax 1-702-687-4486 webpage http://www.state.nv.us/

Governor Jeanne Shaheen State House Concord, New Hampshire 03301-4990 United States of America phone 1-603-271-2121, fax 1-603-271-2130 e-mail nhgov@nh.com webpage http://www.state.nh.us/

Governor Christine Todd Whitman Office of the Governor State House, 125 West State St., CN-001 Trenton, New Jersey 08625-0001 United States of America phone 1-609-292-6000, fax 1-609-292-5212 e-mail page http://www.state.nj.us/governor/govmail .htm webpage http://www.state.nj.us/governor/officeo .htm

Governor Gary Johnson State Capitol Santa Fe, New Mexico 87503 United States of America phone 1-505-827-3000, fax 1-505-827-3026 e-mail gov@gov.state.nm.us webpage http://www.state.nm.us/

Governor George Pataki State Capitol Albany, New York 12224 United States of America phone 1-518-474-8390, fax 1-518-474-1513 e-mail gov.pataki@chamber.state.ny.us webpage http://www.state.ny.us/governor

Governor James Hunt, Jr. State Capitol Raleigh, North Carolina 27603 United States of America phone 1-919-733-4240, fax 1-919-733-2120 webpage http://www.sips.state.nc.us/

Governor Edward Schafer 600 E. Blvd, State Capitol, Fl. 1 Bismark, North Dakota 58505 United States of America phone 1-701-328-2200, fax 1-701-328-2205 webpage http://www.ehs.health.stat e.nd.us/gov/governor/index.htm

Governor Bob Taft State House Columbus, Ohio 43215 United States of America phone 1-614-466-3555, 1-614-466-9354 webpage http://www.state.oh.us/gov/

Governor Frank Keating State Capitol Bldg., Rm. 212 Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73105 United States of America phone 1-405-521-2342, fax 1-405-521-3353 e-mail governor@oklaosf.state.ok.us webpage http://www.state.ok.us/

Governor John Kitzhaber State Capitol Salem, Oregon 97310 United States of America phone 1-503-378-4582, fax 1-503-378-4863 webpage http://www.governor.state.or.us/

Governor Tom Ridge 225 Main Capitol Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17120 United States of America phone 1-717-787-2500, fax 1-717-772-8284 e-mail governor@state.pa.us webpage http://www.state.pa.us/PA_Exe c/Governor/overview.html

Governor of the Commonwealth Commonwealth of Puerto Rico San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936 United States of America webpage http://fortaleza.govpr.org

Governor Lincoln Almond State House Providence, Rhode Island 02903 United States of America phone 1-401-277-2080, fax 1-401-273-5729 webpage http://www.doa.state.ri.us/info/exec.htm

Governor James Hodges State House, PO Box 11369 Columbia, South Carolina 29211 United States of America phone 1-803-737-9540, fax 1-803-737-9507 webpage http://www.state.sc.us/

Governor William Janklow State Capitol, 500 East Capitol Ave Pierre, South Dakota 57501-5070 United States of America phone 1-605-773-3212, fax 1-605-773-5844 e-mail sdgov@gov.state.sd.us webpage http://www.state.sd.us /state/executive/governor/governor.htm

Governor Don Sundquist State Capitol Nashville, Tennessee 37243 United States of America phone 1-615-741-2001, fax 1-615-532-9711 e-mail dsundquist@mail.state.tn.us webpage http://www.state.tn.us/governor/

Governor George W. Bush State Capitol, P.O. Box 12428 Austin, Texas 78711 United States of America phone 1-512-463-2000, fax 1-512-463-1849 webpage http://www.governor.state.tx.us/

Governor Michael Leavitt 210 State Capitol Salt Lake City, Utah 84114 United States of America phone 1-801-538-1000, fax 1-801-538-1528 e-mail governor@state.ut.us webpage http://www.governor.state.ut.us/

Governor Howard Dean 109 State St. Montpelier, Vermont 05609 United States of America phone 1-802-828-3333, fax 1-802-828-3339 e-mail governor@state.vt.us webpage http://www.state.vt.us/

Governor Jim Gilmore State Capitol Richmond, Virginia 23219 United States of America phone 1-804-786-2211, fax 1-804-371-6351 e-mail page http://www.state.va.us/governor/govmail .htm webpage http://www.state.va.us/governor/

Governor Gary Locke State Capitol, P.O. Box 40002 Olympia, Washington 98504-0002 United States of America phone 1-360-902-4111, fax 1-360-753-4110 e-mail governor.locke@governor.wa.gov webpage http://www.wa.gov/governor

Governor Cecil Underwood State Capitol Charleston, West Virginia 25305 United States of America phone 1-304-558-2000, fax 1-304-342-7025 e-mail governor@state.wv.us webpage http://www.state.wi.us/governor/default .htm

Governor Tommy Thompson State Capitol, Room 115 East Madison, Wisconsin 53707 United States of America phone 1-608-266-1212, fax 1-608-267-8983 e-mail wisgov@mail.state.wi.us webpage http://www.wisgov.state.wi.us/

Governor Jim Geringer State Capitol Cheyenne, Wyoming 82002 United States of America phone 1-307-777-7434, fax 1-307-632-3909 e-mail governor@missc.state.wy.us webpage http://www.state.wy.us/gove rnor/text_governor_home.html