NO EXPERIENCE NEEDED!
Last year, our first, we had a great turnout and our veterans will be on hand with this year’s newbies.
WHEN: Tuesday, January 16th, 2007, 9:00 – 12:30
WHERE: General Assembly Building, Richmond, 4th Floor West Conference Room
WHAT: Grassroots Lobbying and Legislative Brunch
WHY: So the legislators can meet Virginia’s small/sustainable producers and the consumers who depend on them and hear our message FOR small producers, AGAINST NAIS
Please call or email Ellen Ussery to provide food for the legislative brunch. 540.364.1877 ellenjill@earthlink.net
AGENDA:
9:00 – 9:30 Meet in 4th Floor West Conference Room, hand out Talking Points for lobbying and Fact Packets for legislators, break into small groups to visit senators, delegates and aides.
9:30-11:45 Lobby General Assembly legislators and their aides. Speaking to aides is just as valuable as speaking with legislators.
12:00 – 12:15 Meet back in Conference Room for clean-up, “debriefing,” and coffee/tea.
While we lobby, several VICFA members will serve continental breakfast to legislators in the conference room, as well as talk to them and give information about our mission and positions. (The continental breakfast won’t be sit-down; legislators will come and go).
Directions to General Assembly follow and are posted on our website, http://www.vicfa.net
Event information: visit http://www.vicfa.net email editor (at) vicfa.net phone Richard Bean 434.263.8704
Directions to General Assembly Building, Richmond 9th and Broad Streets (910 Capitol St) Entrance on Capitol Square, facing big statue.
PLEASE ALLOW A HALF HOUR TO PARK AND WALK
From the West:
• Take 64 East
• Near Richmond, 64-East merges with 95-South
• Stay on 64-East/95-South to exit 75-the 3rd St./Coliseum exit
• The exit ramp puts you on 3rd Street
• Cross Broad St., cross Grace St., turn left on Franklin
• There is a parking lot at Franklin and 7th, on the right.
• If you can park there (if the lot isn’t full), walk down Franklin
(same direction you had been driving) two blocks to 9th (dead end at a
light). Turn left on 9th and walk up a couple blocks to the entrance to
Capitol Square, on the right.
If the 7th St. lot is full, there are others. One possibility, though it fills up early: continue on Franklin to 9th, turn left on 9th, turn left on Grace, turn left into lot under St. Paul’s church.
From north, south, and east (from General Assembly Website)
I-95 North: Exit 74 C onto Broad St. west. Turn left at 10th St., cross Broad St. and look for parking
I-95 South: Exit 74 C onto Broad St. west. Turn left at 10th St.,
cross Broad St. and look for parking
I-64 West: Exit 190 onto 5th St. Turn left onto Marshall St.. Turn
right onto 10th St., cross Broad St. and look for parking.
I-195 (RMA Downtown Expressway): Exit 7th St.-9th St. Turn left onto
9th St. Turn right onto Broad St. Turn right onto 10th St. and look for
parking.
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