Senator Kline's reply to my e-mail on silencer use.

I have sat in on 2 public hearings where he was either chairing the committe or was a member. He makes up his mind and then can't be swayed by facts. I will see if I still have his responce to a ORV bill he put together cuz his neighbors where driving their quads down the ally behind his house.

 

Our efforts are best put into getting people like him un-elected. Find out who is running against him and work hard to support them.

 

That's crazy Ranb.

Kline was first elected to the 37th district (Cap Hill, Rainier Beach and Renton) in 1997, and his only challenger for 2010 withdrew recently. In 2006, he got 90% of the vote, so waiting for someone new is out of the question.

I did found this choice quote on the Stranger in a hit piece on him:

"He is considered a very ineffective legislator," says one former legislator who watches state politics closely. Kline's notoriously bad temper has alienated fellow Democrats and renders him incapable of striking deals with conservatives around the state, the former legislator says.

According to several current legislators and nonprofit leaders who have worked with Kline on legislation, his committee meetings routinely disintegrate into chaos, with senators talking and sometimes yelling over one another. Routinely, they say, Kline holds hearings on bills without first notifying stakeholders.

 

The 37th... Capital Hill, Rainier Beach and Renton. What a lovely area. I can't think of a nicer place in Washington to vacation short of possibly Hilltop in Tacoma. Kline is a product of his district. Might as well give him a for life appointment.

 

You are lucky he was passingly polite, if ignorant, to you. I had to communicate with him in the past on legislation in another area. He became verbally abusive and profane to me for having simply advocated a different approach (topic was tort reform).

He's a terrible legislator and a poor human being on top of it. How he gets re-elected is baffling. Any Democrat with 1/2 a brain could defeat him easily; doesn't have to be a Republican.

 

What is his email address?
Do you mind posting the entire email (yours + his full reply)?

 

I have sent him an e-mail in the past on a engine displacment tax we wanted to impose. I explained how me and my SAR unit use our big 4x4 to recover Police and Fire units from ditches, and transport Doctors and Nurses to the hospitals on snow days out of our own pocket and the his displacment tax would shut down volunteer SAR units like mine. He never even responded. I should have asked if his Pruis would get a fully loaded fire truck out of a snowy ditch in Capitol Forest.

 

Senator Kline is a complete nutjob. I've had dealings with him regarding ORV use and he is a militant ignoramus. I wouldn't waste my time with him.... lost cause.

We'd all be better served if he just stepped in front of a bus.

 

Why bother. The only people that use silencers are the Mafia, and only for hits.

Seriously, we need to think of a reason the liberalize the use of silencers. Or even Maybe so the birds don't get scared when those poor helpless gang bangers shoot up Capitol Hill. Or something like that.

Maybe proposing a law that allows us to use them but makes the penalty for using them in a crime horribly severe would work.

 

Feds are feds, states are states. It could certainly matter for a lot of reps - a provision like that in a silencer bill may well be the "spoonful of sugar that makes the medicine go down" for reps concerned about a backlash from anti-gun voters.


If you haven't done this yet, sitting down and brainstorming about your strategy with an experienced lobbyist would be a very good investment of time (and likely money).

 

A few names came up when I googled "Olympia lobbying firm," but if I were you I'd call around to some other conservative organizations besides WAC and see who they use/recommend. Lots of folks do it for a living...

 

Kline is the @sshat who tried to introduce the Weapons Ban last year and got his butt kicked by Pam Roach and her supporters.

See the bill info here and the folks who supported it: So called assault weapons ban proposed in WA - SB-6396

Pam Roach is who you want on your side for this......Sen. Pam Roach, R-Auburn, said she is mobilizing with other lawmakers against the bill. Since it was announced, her office has received more than 1,000 e-mails asking the Senate to defeat it, Roach said. "We're going to do everything we can to make sure (Kline) doesn't diminish the Second Amendment right," she said.
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