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ABATE OF FLORIDA, INCABATE OF FLORIDA, INCABATE OF FLORIDA, INC
Daytona Beach ChapterDaytona Beach ChapterDaytona Beach Chapter“Dedication To Freedom Of The“Dedication To Freedom Of The“Dedication To Freedom Of The
Road”Road”Road”
REMINDER !!!!!NEXT CHAPTER MEETING
September 4, 2014 7:30 PMEagles—190 S. Nova Road Ormond Beach
Volume 98 Issue 09 Sept. 2014
President Frank Roush 386-290-3025 [email protected]
Vice Pres. Geno Lessig 386-693-4300 [email protected]
Secretary Bobby Colella 407-406-4656 [email protected]
Treasurer John Banta 386-441-6533 [email protected]
Sgt. At Arms Alfye Fyock 386-566-6112 [email protected]
Legislative Officer John Banta 386-441-6533 [email protected]
Membership Steve Fritze 386-677-1550 [email protected]
Safety Director Mike Knezevich 352-759-3637 [email protected]
PR/Communications Ken Holland 386-673-8893 [email protected]
Products Frank Roush 386-290-3025 [email protected]
Newsletter Editor Kathy Holland 386-673-8893 [email protected]
Webmaster Kathy Holland 386-673-8893 [email protected]
State Delegate Rick Adams 386-872-8425 [email protected]
State Delegate Bobby Colella 407-406-4656 [email protected]
Chapter Contact Frank Roush 386-290-3025 [email protected]
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CHAPTER OFFICERS JUNE 2014—JUNE 2015
PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE
VICE PRESIDENT MESSAGE
The Heat IS ON !!! WOW !!!
I hope everyone is our riding but be careful.
Please stay hydrated, wear sunscreen and take breaks occasionally in the shade and/or AC fpossible.
Looking forward to see everyone at the next meeting on September 4th.
GenoVice President of the best ABATE Chapter in Florida
Well here we are at the end of Summer. I hope everyone had a good and safe one andnow it's into Fall and Biketoberfest. The return of the snowbirds so be on the lookoutfor the bluehair drivers who will not be looking out for you. Be sure you are watching forthe texting kids who have no clue of the dangers they create by texting.Everyone ride safe and be aware of your surroundings hope to see you at our Septembermeeting
Ride safe and enjoy the ride !Frank-Cupcake
Daytona Beach Chapter ABATEAugust 6, 2014 (7:30 P.M.)
Fraternal Order of Eagles, Ormond Beach, FL 3274By: Bobby Colella
President (Frank) – 34 years! Happy Birthday Daytona Abate!! Meeting called into session 7:36PM. Following thePledge of Allegiance and openen prayer, discussed the Jacksonville, Iron Order prospect that shot and killed theBlack Piston M.C. member and how this tragic incident impacts the motorcycle community.
Vice President (Geno) – Announced the State meeting. Geno talked about himslef and Frank the Daytona Pres being able to
attended the VP/President's meeting in Clermont. They also were able to meet almost all the other chapters officers, and invited the state Pres"Doc" to our next chapter meeting.
Secretary (Bobby C) – Discussed the upcoming local elections, voter registration, and inviting current and prospec-tive local representatives to come to Daytona Abate and talk about the issues affecting our community, NOT just asmotorcyclist, but as citizens too. Discussed the Ormond Crossings project and the U.S. 1 initiatives that will impactboth business owners and bike events in the future.
Treasure (John) – Read the financial report regarding the chapter finances for July. Motion made to accept report asstated. Motion passed.
Membership (Steve) – Discussed the membership renewals slipped to the right by one month. 11 Renewals for themonth of July. Membership drive planned for 10 Oct.
Legislative (John) – Ongoing legislative actions – Shared letter to mail to Rep. Dorothy Hukill with regards to her re-introducing helmet legislation/law in Florida. John stated many facts that debunked the helmet statistics and proved aflawed theory on safety. For more information, see the legislative updates in this newsletter.
Safety (Mike) – Not present – However, four Daytona Beach members have successfully completed the Abate ofFlorida Inc. Motorcycle Safety and Awareness Program (MSAP).
Sergeant at Arms (Alfie) – Present/No CommentsState Reps – Bobby C volunteered to attend State meeting in ArcadiaWebmaster (Kathy Holland ) - Not presentOld Business – Alfie motioned for Event Planning Committee, motion accepted
New Business – Collectively talked about Daytona Abate event to raise awareness of upcoming elections, Abate’smission, and membership drive (band and bike show). Seven volunteers stepped up to plan event!! Tentative date 10October 2014, Location White Eagle in Corona (location and time will be voted on and confirmed next meeting).
Good of the order – Outlaws M.C. Johny II Beers B-day 30 Aug, Black Pistons M.C. 10th Annual Party 6 Sept,MoH M.C 1st Annual Party 23 Aug. Mongol M.C. Save the Patch Rally 16 August (great turnout, thanks to all theindependents that showed up to support!!)
Meeting adjourned: Closing prayer conducted by Soldiers for Jesus M.C., meeting adjourned at 9:00 PM
Legislative Report August 16, 2014 John BantaOut of date as soon as I write it
Go on to the ABATE of Florida Website www.abateflorida.com, Click on the Legislative Information Center and sub-scribe to email list. Ideally you would get the latest legislative news and press releases, but it is not as active as some wouldhope. Contact the State Legislative Trustee, Darrin Brooks, to get on his email list.
“ABATE of Florida would rather focus on enhanced traffic penalties for those who violate a motorcyclists right of way, resulting in death or injuries,expanding our Motorcycle Safety and Awareness program for the non-riding public, and monitoring the DHSMV administration of motorcycle andsafety awareness funds that only motorcyclists pay from an additional fee on their registrations. ABATE of Florida previously was able to adminis-ter a portion of the funding for innovated awareness programs. The DHSMV has continued to use several of our ideas. However, it always comesback to helmets.” From my recent letter to Senator Hukill
The 2014 Florida Motorcycle Assessment by NHTSA prepared by Florida Department of Transportation Safety Officeand Center for Urban Transportation Research (CUTR) University of South Florida states that State Senator DorothyHukill is being asked to sponsor a mandatory motorcycle helmet bill in 2015. Sen. Hukill is a decent legislator. The legis-lative process is complex and we have learned how business gets done in Tallahassee. The first step is dialog and infor-mation exchange. Mobilization of everyone to contact legislators is way further down the line. After the August Chaptermeeting, both Chapter Secretary Bobby C and I wrote letters to Sen. Hukill. No response yet. We also included ABATEposition papers. These papers explore in a little more depth the misleading statements the media publishes from CUTR,CDC, NTSB made on NHTSA behalf. Our lobbyist, Doc Reichenbach, has learned that Senator Hukill WILL NOT besponsoring a bill to enact a mandatory motorcycle helmet law in Florida. We have 3 position papers so far dealing withthe myths NHTSA publishes. The recent MRF release uses national fatalities per registration release. Our position papersprimarily use Florida numbers. Number one addresses the distortions using fatalities per registrations. Number two de-bunks the 37% effectiveness of helmets and the associated projection of lives saved and costs “to society” that could havebeen saved. Number three explores the misleading statement of a 15 to 37 % reduction in fatalities of the last six states toenact mandatory motorcycle helmet. The next paper will likely be a response to “Well what does it cost?” That will be thehard one. We have outdated CODES reports, a current massive synopsis on the NHSTA website that resembles prelimi-nary research notes, current HIPPA regulations, and agencies that really do not track the health care cost associated withjust motorcyclist, let alone whether they had a helmet on or not.
New trend: The DHSMV, in their 2012 Traffic Crash Facts, is now tracking the injuries and deaths for those motorcy-clists who only wear a non-compliant helmet. The NHSTA Motorcycle Helmet Use in 2013-Overall results, reports thatnationally it is 60% DOT helmets worn, 7% non-compliant, 33% no helmet. Using the DHSMV numbers it appears as51% DOT helmets worn, 2% non-compliant, 43% no helmet.4% unknown.
Registered motorcycles July 2013; Florida 585067; Volusia County 32559. This does notmean motorcyclists since some own more than one bike but is the best realistic numberI have. 43% of 32559 is 14000. "Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the onlysure reliance for the preservation of our liberty." Thomas Jefferson
NOVEMBER 4, 2014 GENERAL ELECTION Volusia CountyPrimary will be over when you read this, we will see who is still on the lists.US House of Representatives
District 9: Ron DeSantis REP; Davis Cox DEM
District 7: Wes Neuman DEM, Davis Cox DEM, Don Oehirich REP, Kelly Shirley REP, David SmithREP, John Mica REP
State Senator District 8: Dorothy Hukill REP
State Senator District10: David Simmons REP, Walter Osborne
State Senator District 6: Greg Feldman NPA, Derek Hankerson REP, John Thrasher REP, Kathleen Trued DEM
Our lobbyist likes Thrasher, Hukill and Simmons. This was reported previously in our newsletters, Nov. 2012 pg. 14 &Oct. 2010 pg. 15. ABATE cannot make endorsements, but our lobbyist can report on sympathetic legislators, and wecan track voting record.
On Thursday, July 31, 2014 6:52 PM, gfeldman <[email protected]> wrote:I saw your last newsletter on line. While your lobbyists may like my opponent, I can assure you that I willbe against ANY effort to repeal the current laws on helmets. Please feel free to contact me and I wouldbe honored to speak with your chapter at a meeting before the election to personally solidify my views onthe issue.Sincerely, GREG FELDMANCandidate for Florida Senate District 6 [email protected] http://www.gregfeldman2014.org/
State Representative District24: Travis Hutson
State Representative District25: Fred Costello REP, Noel Bickford DEM
State Representative District26: Michael Cantu REP, Dwayne Taylor DEM
State Representative District27: Roberto Garcia-Nazario DEM, David Santiago REP
Former Chapter President, Emory Griffis lives in Deltona and was impressed with Santiago, when meeting him in Talla-hassee.
State Chief Financial Officer: Jeff Atwater REP, William Rankin DEM
Commissioner of Agriculture: Adam Putnam REP, Thaddeus Hamilton DEM
Both Atwater and Putnam were ABATE supporters when they were in the State Legislature
At the chapter meeting we discussed judge and county council candidates.
14NR33 - MRF News Release - Fact or Fiction?25 July 2014Fact or Fiction? There is a safety community in Washington D.C. that is trying to destroy motorcycling as we know it with liesand half truths. This group is a quasi mixture of government and private safety driven organizations including The Center forAuto Safety, Highway Loss Data Institute, the Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety and the Governors Highway Safety As-sociation to name a few. All of these groups work to influence the government to enact stricter and stricter safety standardsand laws. They all do this slightly differently from each other but they do have one common core; they hate motorcycles. If theythought it was remotely possible for one minute that they could eliminate all forms of power driven two wheelers from the trafficlandscape, they would try. They try to alarm the general public with misinformation or partial information. They claim that mo-torcyclist fatalities have been on the rise since 2005 and that is true. Some years see a dip but for the most part motorcyclistfatalities have risen. There was an increase of 36 more fatalities between from 2005 to 2011, 4,576 to 4,612 respectively.However, bike sales and registration numbers are up and that tells a very different story. One that they don't want you to hear.A closer look at the numbers reveals the bulk of the story. They tell us that motorcyclists fatalities are on the rise but they nev-er mention the number of motorcycles on the road, which is also increasing. When we look at the numbers, they show the ex-act opposite of what the media, the government and the safety-crats are telling us. In fact, motorcycle fatalities are occurringon a much less frequent basis year after year. Since 2005, fatalities have dropped from 73.5 motorcyclists per one hundredthousand registered motorcycles to 54.7. That is an almost 30% drop in fatalities in the exact same time period in which thefear mongers tell you fatalities are a growing problem. All of the numbers used here are directly from the United States Depart-ment of Transportation (USDOT) website. Separating fact from fiction reveals the truth. Over six years 2.2 million motorcycleswere added to the roads and we essentially kept the number of fatalities at a near static number. This is not exactly the end ofthe world, deathtrap-riding scenario that the powers that be would have you believe. All this considering that the only differ-ence is the Motorcycle Riders Foundation created a federal grant program to send money to the states to assist with ridereducation and share the road type campaigns. We have also relaxed mandatory helmet laws which goesdirectly against what they would have you believe.YEAR, REGISTRATION, FATALLITIES, RATIO PER 100000
2005, 6227146, 4576, 73.48
2006, 6678958, 4837, 72.43
2007, 7138476, 5174, 72.48
2008, 7706464, 5312, 68.39
2009, 7883446, 4469, 56.69
2010, 8212267, 4518, 55.01
2011, 8437502, 4612, 54.66
During the August congressional recess remind your elected officials that since 2005, we have hadstates repeal helmet laws and have watched fatalities drop. The only significant change to the motorcyclesafety world other than more motorcycles, is the National Highway Traffic Administrations motorcyclesafety grant program. The same program that was supported by the Motorcycle Riders Foundation. Thisfund has dispensed money to every state and is used for motorcycle rider education and share the roadcampaigns. In order to continue the fund we need Congress to pass another transportation bill. Pleasetake advantage of the upcoming congressional recess by contacting your member of congress, attendingevents and town hall type meetings. Urge them to get to work on the highway bill.
14NR34 - MRF News Release - Highway Funding Bill Clears Congress 1 August 2014The United States Congress has agreed on a temporary patch for the highway trust fund, reports the Motorcycle Riders Foun-dation. The Senate agreed to the House version of the temporary funding fix for the highway trust fund. The fix came justhours before the United States Department of Transportation would have had to cut off payments for highway constructionprojects and mass transit programs. The quick fix will keep the trust fund solvent through mid May of 2015. The final Senatevote ended a week of legislative ping ponging between the House and Senate. The Senate wanted to modify the legislation soit would expire in December of 2014, thus forcing a vote on a larger highway bill that would address the trust fund issues be-fore the end of this year. The House defeated that legislation, sending its own version to be passed by the Senate, that willrun through May and spends $10.8 billion. The temporary patch kicks the larger issues into the next Congress to be sworn innext year.
The 402 federal safety grant money does not only go to programs the MRF mentions. Weare talking about NHTSA. How do you think they pay for all the misleading statements.Here is the link: http://www.ghsa.org/html/stateinfo/programs/The 2014 Florida Motorcycle Assessment by NHTSA prepared by Florida Department of Transportation Safety Office andCenter for Urban Transportation Research (CUTR) was paid for by NHSTA with federal 402 funds, budgeted at $50000.CUTR has been budgeted with $875000 for projects MC-14-10-01, 02,03,04,05. That is a lot of money to try to substantiatethe NHSTA and Federal DOT position that mandatory motorcycle helmet laws are the silver bullet cure all for motorcyclistfatalities.
That’s it, John
***************************Write Your Legislators**********************02/2013US Capitol Bill web site http://thomas.loc.gov Governor Rick ScottFlorida Web sites http://www.myflorida.com The Capitol, 400 Monroe St.
Tallahassee, FL [email protected]
US Senate***************113th Congress***************************************Bill Nelson Marco Rubio225 E. Robinson St. 716 Hart Bldg. 317 Hart Bldg. 201 South Orange Ave.
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US House*******Send letters to the district office****************************District 7 District 6John Mica Ron DeSantis840 Deltona Blvd., Suite G 1000 City Center CircleDeltona, FL 32725 Port Orange, FL 32129386 860-1499 386 756-9798FAX 386 860-5730 FAX 386 756-9903
2187 Rayburn House Office Bldg. 427 Cannon House Office Bldg.Washington, DC 20515 Washington, DC 20515202 225-4035 202 225-2706FAX 202 226-0821 FAX 202 226-6299http://www.house.gov Use this website to navigate to send an email
Florida Senate*****************************************************District 6 District 8 District10John Thrasher Dorothy Hukill David SimmonsSuite 106 Unit 17 251 Maitland Avenue113 Nature Walk Pkwy 209 Dunlawton Ave. Suite 304St. Augustine, FL Port Orange, FL Altamonte Springs, FL32092 34471 32701904 287-4222 386 304-7630 407 262-7578
400 Senate Office 210 Senate Office 406 Senate OfficeAll at 404 South Monroe StreetTallahassee, FL Tallahassee, FL Tallahassee, FL32399-1100 32399-1100 32399-1100850 487-5006 850 487-5008 850 487-5010FAX 850 487-5368
Florida House******************************************************District 24 District25 District 26 District 26Travis Hutson Dave Hood Dwayne Taylor David Santiago4875 Palm Coast Pwy 444 Seabreeze Blvd Suite 103 777 Deltona Blvd.NW, Unit 5 Suite 720 1020 West ISB Suite 28Palm Coast, FL Daytona Beach, FL Daytona Beach, FL Deltona, FL 32137-3671 32118-3952 32114-4773 32725-7175 386 446-4644
386 239-6286 386 239-6202 386 575-0387
1102 Capitol Bldg 1003 Capitol Bldg 1302 Capitol Bldg 1003 Capitol BldgAll at 402 South Monroe St.Tallahassee, FL Tallahassee, FL Tallahassee, FL Tallahassee, FL32399-1300 32399-1300 32399-1300 32399-1300850 717-5024 820 717-5025 850 717-5026 850 717-5027
Go thru the www.myflorida.com and use Representative’s or Senator’shomepage contact for email*****************************************************************************
Due August …Gary Blake, Bobby Colella, Fred Gorini, Ben Hill, NicholeMoore,Willy Perry and Antonino Prince…..Due Sept…. John Mahoney, Bart Mclean and Jim WheelerDue October…..Robert Forbes, Lenny Horonimus, Ruth Knezevich, EdNorville and Dan Wills
Please renew a month early to avoid expiring. Dues can be paid atthe Iron Horse, ask for Steve or at the Eagles on Nova Rd. at ourmeeting on the first Thursday of the month. You can also mail yourmembership check to PO Box 263198 Daytona Beach FL. 32126-3198.Thanks,Steve FritzeMembership Trustee
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ABATE OF FLORIDA, INC.
Goals and PurposesTo become a powerful and viable force in legislative matters concerning bikers.
To promote safe riding habits without infringing on individual rights.
To motivate the biker to write letters to their legislators before, during and after the legislative session in re-gards to biker/individual freedom legislation.
To provide a monthly Newsletter to keep all bikers informed of upcoming legislation, whether it is favorableor discriminatory to the biker, and also of events, runs, parties etc. in different areas of Florida and the UnitedStates.
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