Vote Coming Up March 12 on Mexican Sham ID Ban

Colorado Bill 1224 Would Ban Mexi-sham ID acceptance

Keep calling your Colorado State senators and ask them to vote FOR Bill #1224 WITH NO AMENDMENTS.

The vote in the Colorado Senate on bill # 1224 is TOMORROW, March 12.

THIS WOULD BE THE FIRST TIME THIS TYPE OF LEGISLATION WOULD PASS *IN THE USA*

This bill would make it illegal for public entities to accept Mexican ID cards and other non-verifiable foreign-issued ID. ----- MORE HB-1224 Your help is needed in supporting this excellent bill that would make illegal the accepting of the Mexican matricula ID card.

--- Please call your Colorado Senator. Leave a message with their staff that you want them to support the "Colorado Secure and Verifiable Identity Document Act" (HB-1224). Tell them that you don't want it diluted or amended, but for them to pass it as is.

From outside of Colorado, the House of Representatives phone is 1-800-811-7647 and the Senate phone is 1-888-473-8136. From within Colorado, you can call the House at 303-866-2904, the Senate at 303-866-2316 and Governor Bill Owens at 303-866-2471. If you need to, you can give the Senate receptionist your 9 digit zipcode and she can look up your Senator: 303-866-2316.

Here is the CO state legislature page with Reps and Senators listed. If you know your district (from your voter registration card), you can find your CO State Senator here: http://www.state.co.us/gov_dir/stateleg.html

To find out what state house and senate district you live in, call your county clerk's office. Then go to the above website and click on the directory of legislators. There's a list organized by district number and a list organized by last name. You can click on any legislator's name and be connected to information about each one, including their committee assignments, phone number, mailing address and e-mail address.

To find out the current status of the bill and additional details on the bill, go to http://www.leg.state.co.us/2003a/pubhome.nsf and enter bill number "1224".


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