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Massage Therapists Oppose California AB 1822(Swanson)
Please join together as a profession and voice your opposition to California AB 1822(Swanson), Read about it in Massage Today or review the facebook group http://www.facebook.com/#!/group.php?gid=117470371615976
We are a legitimate profession.
Keith Eric Grant posted this. " I got an email tonight that we urgently need to get letters opposing AB1822 to California State Senators. The police chief's association
Vote No!
We are a legitimate profession.
Keith Eric Grant posted this. " I got an email tonight that we urgently need to get letters opposing AB1822 to California State Senators. The police chief's association
apparently found a senator, not part of the leadership, and the bill
will be amended tomorrow. Massage Today has an email form to send
letters to the senators. I'm where I don't have the link handy at the
moment. Can post it later."
Vote No!
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Permalink Reply by rashelle reading on
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If you are a massage therapist here in CA, or you love yours and want them to be able to practice as legitimate small business owners, without local government vice squad extortion, please take the time today to write to our state senators & urge them to vote NO on AB1822.
My mother, brilliant writer & delightful activist that she is, wrote a small piece about it (pasted below). Feel free to change and send from you or send it on as a big quote.
Thank you.
Rashelle
Here are the email addresses (you can copy and paste this straight into an email) of our state senators:
Senator.Aanestad@senate.ca.gov, Senator.Alquist@senate.ca.gov, Senator.Ashburn@senate.ca.gov, Senator.Calderon@senate.ca.gov, Senator.Cogdill@senate.ca.gov, Senator.Corbett@senate.ca.gov, Senator.Correa@senate.ca.gov, Senator.Denham@senate.ca.gov, Senator.DeSaulnier@senate.ca.gov, Senator.Ducheny@senate.ca.gov, Senator.Dutton@senate.ca.gov, Senator.Emmerson@senate.ca.gov, Senator.Florez@senate.ca.gov, Senator.Hancock@senate.ca.gov, Senator.Harman@senate.ca.gov, Senator.Hollingsworth@senate.ca.gov, Senator.Huff@senate.ca.gov, Senator.Kehoe@senate.ca.gov, Senator.Leno@senate.ca.gov, Senator.Liu@senate.ca.gov, Senator.Lowenthal@senate.ca.gov, Senator.McLeod@senate.ca.gov, Senator.Oropeza@senate.ca.gov, Senator.Padilla@senate.ca.gov, Senator.Pavley@senate.ca.gov, Senator.Romero@senate.ca.gov, Senator.Runner@senate.ca.gov, Senator.Simitian@senate.ca.gov, Senator.Steinberg@senate.ca.gov, Senator.Strickland@senate.ca.gov, Senator.Walters@senate.ca.gov, Senator.Wiggins@senate.ca.gov, Senator.Wolk@senate.ca.gov, Senator.Wright@senate.ca.gov, Senator.Wyland@senate.ca.gov, Senator.Yee@senate.ca.gov
Here is what my mom wrote:
Apparently, on Monday, 23 August the California state senate is set to vote on an almost unheard of measure, AB 1822. I would like to bring this measure and a bit of its history and effects to your attention. I think it is a devious effort by organizations and individuals intimately integrated (both financially and procedurally) into California legislative process to undo years of work by regular citizens to make it possible for thousands of small business people simply to work.
Massage therapists are the epitome of independent small business owners and California legislators are threatening to over-regulate a practice that only recently became liberated from the slimy, slippery hands of local law enforcement vice operators.
Before September 2008, in order to legally practice massage, masseuses must be licensed by every jurisdiction in which they practiced. In my neck of the woods, in order to make a successful living, that would mean licensing in the City and County of San Bernardino, the City and county of Riverside, the Cities of Redlands, Highland, Banning, Beaumont, Ontario, Fontana, Rancho Cucamonga, Grand Terrace, Colton, Yucaipa, etc. Each jurisdiction had its own rules, process, regulations and fees. The experience of my massage therapist daughter was that vice departments kept adding more requirements; from amother's perspective, it felt like they just kept taking her money, like, well, like a pimp.
Since at least 2003, professional massage therapists sought statewide licensing to both professionalize requirements and provide therapists freedom to work. Efforts culminated in the 2008 passage of SB 731 which did just that. (Seehttp://info.sen.ca.gov/pub/07-08/bill/sen/sb_0701-0750/sb_731_bill_20080927_chaptered.html)
Almost immediately after the passage of statewide licensing, the Police Chiefs Association in collaboration with Assembly member Andre Swanson, of Oakland, used their Sacramento insider status to try to overturn SB731 and return massage therapy to the realm of vice regulation and treat legitimate massage as a front for prostitution and human trafficking. http://www.aroundthecapitol.com/billtrack/analysis.html?aid=37747
AB 1822 has been revised significantly. It now seeks to add two police representatives to the certification board. Do the dental, medical, nursing, and chiropractic boards have police officers on them? With no research to legitimate such a strong armed intrusion, Assemblyman Swanson and the Police Chiefs seek to delegitmate massage therapy, looking for criminals in the wrong places through the wrong strategies.
Suzanne Reading
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Permalink Reply by Daniel Cohen on
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Your Mother has stated it beautifully. I hope the Senators actually read it.
rashelle reading said:If you are a massage therapist here in CA, or you love yours and want them to be able to practice as legitimate small business owners, without local government vice squad extortion, please take the time today to write to our state senators & urge them to vote NO on AB1822.
My mother, brilliant writer & delightful activist that she is, wrote a small piece about it (pasted below). Feel free to change and send from you or send it on as a big quote.
Thank you.
Rashelle
Here are the email addresses (you can copy and paste this straight into an email) of our state senators:
Senator.Aanestad@senate.ca.gov, Senator.Alquist@senate.ca.gov, Senator.Ashburn@senate.ca.gov, Senator.Calderon@senate.ca.gov, Senator.Cogdill@senate.ca.gov, Senator.Corbett@senate.ca.gov, Senator.Correa@senate.ca.gov, Senator.Denham@senate.ca.gov, Senator.DeSaulnier@senate.ca.gov, Senator.Ducheny@senate.ca.gov, Senator.Dutton@senate.ca.gov, Senator.Emmerson@senate.ca.gov, Senator.Florez@senate.ca.gov, Senator.Hancock@senate.ca.gov, Senator.Harman@senate.ca.gov, Senator.Hollingsworth@senate.ca.gov, Senator.Huff@senate.ca.gov, Senator.Kehoe@senate.ca.gov, Senator.Leno@senate.ca.gov, Senator.Liu@senate.ca.gov, Senator.Lowenthal@senate.ca.gov, Senator.McLeod@senate.ca.gov, Senator.Oropeza@senate.ca.gov, Senator.Padilla@senate.ca.gov, Senator.Pavley@senate.ca.gov, Senator.Romero@senate.ca.gov, Senator.Runner@senate.ca.gov, Senator.Simitian@senate.ca.gov, Senator.Steinberg@senate.ca.gov, Senator.Strickland@senate.ca.gov, Senator.Walters@senate.ca.gov, Senator.Wiggins@senate.ca.gov, Senator.Wolk@senate.ca.gov, Senator.Wright@senate.ca.gov, Senator.Wyland@senate.ca.gov, Senator.Yee@senate.ca.gov
Here is what my mom wrote:
Apparently, on Monday, 23 August the California state senate is set to vote on an almost unheard of measure, AB 1822. I would like to bring this measure and a bit of its history and effects to your attention. I think it is a devious effort by organizations and individuals intimately integrated (both financially and procedurally) into California legislative process to undo years of work by regular citizens to make it possible for thousands of small business people simply to work.
Massage therapists are the epitome of independent small business owners and California legislators are threatening to over-regulate a practice that only recently became liberated from the slimy, slippery hands of local law enforcement vice operators.
Before September 2008, in order to legally practice massage, masseuses must be licensed by every jurisdiction in which they practiced. In my neck of the woods, in order to make a successful living, that would mean licensing in the City and County of San Bernardino, the City and county of Riverside, the Cities of Redlands, Highland, Banning, Beaumont, Ontario, Fontana, Rancho Cucamonga, Grand Terrace, Colton, Yucaipa, etc. Each jurisdiction had its own rules, process, regulations and fees. The experience of my massage therapist daughter was that vice departments kept adding more requirements; from amother's perspective, it felt like they just kept taking her money, like, well, like a pimp.
Since at least 2003, professional massage therapists sought statewide licensing to both professionalize requirements and provide therapists freedom to work. Efforts culminated in the 2008 passage of SB 731 which did just that. (Seehttp://info.sen.ca.gov/pub/07-08/bill/sen/sb_0701-0750/sb_731_bill_20080927_chaptered.html)
Almost immediately after the passage of statewide licensing, the Police Chiefs Association in collaboration with Assembly member Andre Swanson, of Oakland, used their Sacramento insider status to try to overturn SB731 and return massage therapy to the realm of vice regulation and treat legitimate massage as a front for prostitution and human trafficking. http://www.aroundthecapitol.com/billtrack/analysis.html?aid=37747
AB 1822 has been revised significantly. It now seeks to add two police representatives to the certification board. Do the dental, medical, nursing, and chiropractic boards have police officers on them? With no research to legitimate such a strong armed intrusion, Assemblyman Swanson and the Police Chiefs seek to delegitmate massage therapy, looking for criminals in the wrong places through the wrong strategies.
Suzanne Reading
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thanks. and i hope so, too.
Daniel Cohen said:Your Mother has stated it beautifully. I hope the Senators actually read it.
rashelle reading said:If you are a massage therapist here in CA, or you love yours and want them to be able to practice as legitimate small business owners, without local government vice squad extortion, please take the time today to write to our state senators & urge them to vote NO on AB1822.
My mother, brilliant writer & delightful activist that she is, wrote a small piece about it (pasted below). Feel free to change and send from you or send it on as a big quote.
Thank you.
Rashelle
Here are the email addresses (you can copy and paste this straight into an email) of our state senators:
Senator.Aanestad@senate.ca.gov, Senator.Alquist@senate.ca.gov, Senator.Ashburn@senate.ca.gov, Senator.Calderon@senate.ca.gov, Senator.Cogdill@senate.ca.gov, Senator.Corbett@senate.ca.gov, Senator.Correa@senate.ca.gov, Senator.Denham@senate.ca.gov, Senator.DeSaulnier@senate.ca.gov, Senator.Ducheny@senate.ca.gov, Senator.Dutton@senate.ca.gov, Senator.Emmerson@senate.ca.gov, Senator.Florez@senate.ca.gov, Senator.Hancock@senate.ca.gov, Senator.Harman@senate.ca.gov, Senator.Hollingsworth@senate.ca.gov, Senator.Huff@senate.ca.gov, Senator.Kehoe@senate.ca.gov, Senator.Leno@senate.ca.gov, Senator.Liu@senate.ca.gov, Senator.Lowenthal@senate.ca.gov, Senator.McLeod@senate.ca.gov, Senator.Oropeza@senate.ca.gov, Senator.Padilla@senate.ca.gov, Senator.Pavley@senate.ca.gov, Senator.Romero@senate.ca.gov, Senator.Runner@senate.ca.gov, Senator.Simitian@senate.ca.gov, Senator.Steinberg@senate.ca.gov, Senator.Strickland@senate.ca.gov, Senator.Walters@senate.ca.gov, Senator.Wiggins@senate.ca.gov, Senator.Wolk@senate.ca.gov, Senator.Wright@senate.ca.gov, Senator.Wyland@senate.ca.gov, Senator.Yee@senate.ca.gov
Here is what my mom wrote:
Apparently, on Monday, 23 August the California state senate is set to vote on an almost unheard of measure, AB 1822. I would like to bring this measure and a bit of its history and effects to your attention. I think it is a devious effort by organizations and individuals intimately integrated (both financially and procedurally) into California legislative process to undo years of work by regular citizens to make it possible for thousands of small business people simply to work.
Massage therapists are the epitome of independent small business owners and California legislators are threatening to over-regulate a practice that only recently became liberated from the slimy, slippery hands of local law enforcement vice operators.
Before September 2008, in order to legally practice massage, masseuses must be licensed by every jurisdiction in which they practiced. In my neck of the woods, in order to make a successful living, that would mean licensing in the City and County of San Bernardino, the City and county of Riverside, the Cities of Redlands, Highland, Banning, Beaumont, Ontario, Fontana, Rancho Cucamonga, Grand Terrace, Colton, Yucaipa, etc. Each jurisdiction had its own rules, process, regulations and fees. The experience of my massage therapist daughter was that vice departments kept adding more requirements; from amother's perspective, it felt like they just kept taking her money, like, well, like a pimp.
Since at least 2003, professional massage therapists sought statewide licensing to both professionalize requirements and provide therapists freedom to work. Efforts culminated in the 2008 passage of SB 731 which did just that. (Seehttp://info.sen.ca.gov/pub/07-08/bill/sen/sb_0701-0750/sb_731_bill_20080927_chaptered.html)
Almost immediately after the passage of statewide licensing, the Police Chiefs Association in collaboration with Assembly member Andre Swanson, of Oakland, used their Sacramento insider status to try to overturn SB731 and return massage therapy to the realm of vice regulation and treat legitimate massage as a front for prostitution and human trafficking. http://www.aroundthecapitol.com/billtrack/analysis.html?aid=37747
AB 1822 has been revised significantly. It now seeks to add two police representatives to the certification board. Do the dental, medical, nursing, and chiropractic boards have police officers on them? With no research to legitimate such a strong armed intrusion, Assemblyman Swanson and the Police Chiefs seek to delegitmate massage therapy, looking for criminals in the wrong places through the wrong strategies.
Suzanne Reading
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Permalink Reply by Rajam K Roose on
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I'm so tired of writing letters to everyone, although my postage is tax deductible and the emails are free. you know what, I'm feeling like I want to promote legalizing prostitution--that seems to be the easier way out.....?
I was writing letters five years ago when this first came up. Back then, NO ONE wanted a regulated state in CA and now all the sudden, all these therapists want to regulate massage, where were ya'll when this issue first came up? Let's cut through the crap and just legalize prostitution and then none of this will be an issue!
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Since there is no bill to legalize prostitution and we stand to lose what we gained in the hard fight for professional massage, it seems a shame to give up now.
Rajam K Roose said:I'm so tired of writing letters to everyone, although my postage is tax deductible and the emails are free. you know what, I'm feeling like I want to promote legalizing prostitution--that seems to be the easier way out.....?
I was writing letters five years ago when this first came up. Back then, NO ONE wanted a regulated state in CA and now all the sudden, all these therapists want to regulate massage, where were ya'll when this issue first came up? Let's cut through the crap and just legalize prostitution and then none of this will be an issue!
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I'm only expressing frustration, not giving up.
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Glad to hear it. We definitely have been in a frustrating struggle
Rajam K Roose said:I'm only expressing frustration, not giving up.
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Permalink Reply by Jason Erickson on
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Rooting for all of you from my home in Minnesota, where we, too, have had nothing but difficulty getting statewide regulation passed. Your struggles and successes help support our case for finally establishing a rational approach to massage/bodywork regulation here.
Go get'em!
PS - Hope to see some of you at the AMTA National Convention in Minneapolis next month. Would love to learn directly from those of you fighting this battle.
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