Hello friends! I have a BIG favor to ask of you all. Please refrain from calling Speaker Turzai’s office to ask for movement on anti-cruelty legislation. You may have been asked over and over to do so, that’s not how it works. It is not the Speaker’s duty to convince his caucus what bills to support. It is YOUR OWN representatives duty to do so. Also, please refrain from vitriolic comments on his social media outlets, they have been appalling and certainly not what is going to get you in any doors to try to work to get legislation passed. What SHOULD you do? Politely ask your legislators to support laws that protect our animals and to work to convince others in their caucus that we need this! Ask them to co-sponsor legislation. Ask THEM to bring it up, ask THEM to email Judiciary to inquire when a bill may be up for being voted on in committee. Attacking the Speaker is NOT an effective way to lobby. He is also the chairman of the Rules Committee” again, if YOUR legislator is on Rules ask THEM to support and push for legislation you want to see brought up for a vote. If your legislator is on Judiciary/Rules your calls are doubly important and needed.

“The Speaker’s duties as presiding officer of the House, include administering the oath of office to Members, calling the House to order, preserving order and decorum within the House chamber and galleries, recognizing members to speak on the House floor, and making rulings about House procedures.”

We desperately need better laws for the animals, believe me when I tell you calls if you are not a constituent don’t matter! Vitriolic language hurts our cause. Please be a part of the solution and not creating more work for those of us who are working within the Capitol . I spend my first 15 minutes of a meeting apologizing for bad behavior they I didn’t even commit! So non-productive! I know it’s frustrating, I know we get angry. We want this done so let’s lobby effectively! Call your reps!