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The House bill for New Mexico to ban Aspartame was turned in; it has a number now, House Bill 391, with three committee assignments: Consumer and Public Affairs; Business and Industry, and Judiciary; with these 19 Representatives having signed it: Irvin Harrison (Sponsor, Vice Chair, Consumer and Public Affairs Committee) W. Ken Martinez (Majority Leader New Mexico House of Representatives) Henry Kiki Saavedra (Chairman, House Appropriations Committee) Gail Chasey (Chair, House Consumer and Public Affairs Committee) Debbie Rodella (Chair, House Business and Industry Committee) Roger Madalena (Chair, Energy and Natural Resources) Dan Silva (Chair, House Transportation Committee) Jose Campos (Chair, Voters and Elections) Miguel Garcia (Chair, Labor and Human Resources) Nick Salazar (Chair, Rules and Order of Business; Vice Chair,Health and Government Affairs) Bobby Gonzales (Vice Chair, Taxation and Revenue) Patricia Lundstrom (Vice Chair, Transportation) Ray Begaye (Vice Chair, Agriculture and Water Resources) Joni Gutierrez (Member, Appropriations and Finance) Elias Barela (Vice Chair, Enrolling and Engrossing) Dr. Danice Picraux (Vice Chair, Finance and Appropriations) Jim Trujillo (Vice Chair, Energy and Natural Resources) Tom Swisstack (Member, Judiciary) Andrew Barreras (Member, Business and Industry) ____________________________________ The bill is to ban the sale of Aspartame/Equal/Nutrasweet in New Mexico. This is a neurotoxic artificial sweetener that metabolizes as methanol, then formaldehyde, and even one more brain tumor causing agent, diketopiperazine. Aspartame's approval was forced through the FDA in 1981 by then CEO of patent holder, G.D. Searle, Donald Rumsfeld, for vast personal gain, despite the FDA having turned down the approval for 15 prior years. This broad base of support in the New Mexico House of Representatives proves that there is deep concern among legislators about the failures of the USA FDA to recognize the harm done by Aspartame to rescind FDA approval; therefore, the legislators are choosing to act at the state level in order to protect the health of all New Mexicans from further damage caused by this neurotoxic carcinogen, presently found in 6000 USA food products (diet sodas, sugarless gum, low fat yogurt, Equal (table sweetener)), as well as more than 500 medications, including children's vitamins and aspirin. _____________________________________ The Committee Assignments (3) are challenging; following are lists identifying the members of which committees we should be concentrating our efforts on to convince. Those wanting to help this effort could send quick 2 sentence notes of thanks and appreciation to these members above. Here are their email addresses, and if they don't do email, I have listed their Capitol Telephone numbers. Letters to Governor Richardson and to Lt. Governor Denish are also helpful; they have email forms at their respective websites. _____________________________________ Irvin Harrison (irv4u@cnetco.com) Ken Martinez (mlo1@7cities.net) Henry Saavedra, in care of Buffie.Saavedra@state.nm.us Gail Chasey gailchasey@msn.com Roger Madalena: 505 986-4417 Debbie.Rodella@nmlegis.gov Jose Campos josephs@plateautel.net Miguel Garcia Miguel.garcia@nmlegis.gov Nick Salazar nlsalazar@lanl.gov plundstrom@nwnmcog.com Danice.picraux@nmlegis.gov Joni Gutierrez jonig@zianet.com Dan Silva (505) 986-4425 ray.begaye@nmlegis.gov danice.picraux@nmlegis.gov jimtrujillo@msn.com Tom Swisstack tswiss1@msn.com elias@barelalaw.com ajbarreras4staterep@hotmail.com Thanks for helping so much, thus far....I think the real battle is going to be in the committees where the corporate lobbyists will concentrate on trying to slow down, subvert, and defeat this vital, long overdue legislation entirely. Some members I don't list because they have already informed me that they will vote against it, so we won't waste effort on opponents: there is plenty to do to convince the fence-sitters! ___________________________________________ Key Committee members are going to be: House Consumer and Public Affairs: antonio@moejustice.com Antonio Maestas alpark.nm@gmail.com Al Park, also Chairman of House Judiciary noralee@cableone.net Nora Espinosa, Republican from Roswell Dub Williams (505 986-4454) ______________ Business and Industry: George Hanosh (Vice Chair) 505 986-4243 Justine Fox Young (Albuquerque Republican) jfoxyoung@gmail.com Tom Garcia (ocate@hotmail.com) Dona Irwin (donagale@zianet.com) Tom Taylor (tom@tomtaylor.net) House Republican Leader Gloria Vaughn Alamogordo Republican 986-4453 Richard Vigil rrvigil@plateautel.net ________________ House Judiciary: Most emails should be sent to Al Park, Joe Cervantes,Dan Foley, Bill Rehm, Mimi Stewart, Eric Youngberg, and Teresa Zanetti Al Park Chair Democrat (alpark.nm@gmail.com) Joseph Cervantes Vice Chair Democrat (cervanteslaw@zianet.com) Elias Barela Democrat (elias@barelalaw.com) Gail Chasey Democrat gailchasey@msn.com Daniel R. Foley Republican (Arch conservative, Minority Whip) daniel.foley@nmlegis.gov Antonio "Moe" Maestas Democrat antonio@moejustice.com W. Ken Martinez Democrat mlo1@7cities.net William "Bill" R. Rehm Republican bill.rehm@comcast.net Mimi Stewart Democrat mstewart@osogrande.com Thomas E. Swisstack Democrat tswiss1@msn.com Gloria C. Vaughn Republican 505 986-4453 Eric A. Youngberg Republican eric_youngberg@msn.com Teresa A. Zanetti Republican electzanetti@comcast.net I appreciate your immediate attention to these requests for correspondence in favor of banning aspartame: they will make the difference. In all cases, even with telephoning, always ask for a response in writing which will state their position. This will be invaluable in assesing where we stand, i.e., in counting the votes.... If you have any questions, please let me know. Respectfully, Stephen Fox stephen@santafefineart.com 217 W. Water St. Santa Fe, NM 87501 505 983-2002 |
