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NY Take Action: Assembly Codes committee votes on adult vax database tomorrow, 5/25

The New York Assemlby Codes Committee will vote tomorrow on A279, Assemlby Health COmmitttee Chsir Richard Gottfried’s bill the bill that would require all adults’ vaccination records to be turned over to the state

The NY Assembly Health Committee voted last Thursday 14-12 to pass Assembly Bill A279. None of the black members of the Committee voted for it. If passed the state will know who has received shots, and more importantly who has not. Creating a database of this kind is an essential first step to enforcing adult vaccination mandates and vaccine passports, a long-desired goal of the vaccine industry. The only feasible use for it is to identify people who have not complied with state forced vaccination measures and target non-compliant people for coercion, isolation and punishment.

All seven Republicans voted against it as did  in the health Committee meeting last Thuirsday, as did 5 Democrats. 14 Democrats vote for it. Votes against the bill came from Republicans Ashby, Byrne, Byrnes, Jensen, McDonough, M. Miller and Salka with Democrats Abinanti, Barron, Bichotte Hermelyn, Sayegh and Solages. Yes votes came from Chairman Gottfried (the bill sponsor),  Braunstein, Cahill, Cymbrowitz, Dinowitz, Galef, Gunther, Hevesi, McDonald, Paulin, Reyes, D. Rosenthal, L Rosenthal, Steck.

None of the three black members of the Assembly Health Committee, Soaages, Bichotte Hermelyn and Barron voted for the bill. In the Senate Health Committee only Samra Brouk voted for it, and that was most likely a concession to Sen. Hoylman, the sponsor in the Senate, who aggressively campaigned for Brouk in the last election. The only other black member of the Senate Health Committee, Sen. Brian Benjamin, was conveniently absent for the vote. The bill has only garnered one vote from the five black legislators who have voted so far.

The lack of support among black legislators for the bill may be its downfall. The Covid-19 alledged vaccination rate among black New Yorkers is half the overall average. Vaccination rates among Hispanics in New York is only slighlty higher. And poll after poll shows the highest level of skepticism about the Covid-19 shots is among black people. That skepticism is evident in the votes so far of the black legislators. This database is intended to identify and punish people who do not obey the state, which is exactly what the database for children’s vaccination is used for. Obviously black and Hispanic New Yorkers will be disproportionately targeted for surveillance and punishment if this bill is passed.

The next stop for the bill is a vote the Assembly Codes Committee, Every additional task they legislature must do to pass the bill helps us because the session is scheduled to end on June 10 and any additional work increases the likelihood that the bill will not be completed by the time the clock runs out.

Please get on the phone and your computer and contact the following members of the Assembly CodesCommittee. Talking points are below the contact info.

We need 11 votes to kill the bill. We believe we have definite 8 NO votes  including all six Republicans. We need three more Democrats.

Please click here  Take Action   to send emails to the leadership of the legislature and your own State Senator and Assemblymember and the members of the Assembly Codes Committee.

Please call your own Assemblymember and politely ask him or her to vote against the bill. Contact information should appear below:

Please get on the phone and your computer and contact the members of the Assembly Codes Committee. Contact information below below.

Please comment on the members’ Facebook pages. Ask them to vote NO. Please be polite. Ranting, threats and name calling, etc. doesn’t do us any good and may alienate people whose vote we may be able to get in the future. Please keep it civil, calm and polite.

Please tweet them it you use Twitter.

And please email them directly with your own reasons for opposing the bill. Again, be civil, calm and polite.

Many of the phone numbers will go directly to voice mail and frequently voice mail boxes are full, so use the other methods of communication.

It is highly unlikely that any member who co-sponsored the bill will vote against it.

Please start at the top with Speaker Carl Heastie (the Boss)  and work your way down.

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Carl Heastie, Speaker of the Assembly

(518) 455-3791, (718) 654-6539

speaker@nyassembly.gov

Twitter: @carlheastie

https://www.facebook.com/carl.heastie

Jeffrey Dinowitz, Codes Committee, Chair, Co-Sponsor

Voted Yes in Health Committee (518) 455-5965, (718) 796-5345,

dinowij@nyassembly.gov

Twitter: @JeffreyDinowitz

https://www.facebook.com/JeffreyDinowitz

Vivian Cook, (518) 455-4203, (718) 322-3975

CookV@nyassembly.gov

No Twitter

No Facebook

David Wepriin, (518) 455-5806, (718) 454-3027

WeprinD@nyassembly.gov @DavidWeprin

https://www.facebook.com/DavidWeprin

J. Gary Pretlow, (518) 455-5291, (914) 667-0209 @jgarypretlow

preloj@nyassmbly.gov. https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1339457353

 

Latrice Walker, (518) 455-4466, (718) 342-1256

walkerl@nyassembly.gov

https://www.facebook.com/TheRealLatriceWalker

 

N. Nick Perry, (518) 455-4166, (718) 385-3336 @nnickperry

perryn@nyassembly.gov

https://www.facebook.com/nnickperry

Clyde Vanel, (518) 455-4711, (718) 479-2333 @clydevanel

vanelc@nyassembly.gov

https://www.facebook.com/clyde.vanel

 

Rebecca Seawright, (518) 455-5676, (212) 288-4607 @seawrightforNY

seawrightr@nyassemlby.gov

https://www.facebook.com/RebeccaASeawright

Daniel O’Donnell, (518) 455-5603, (518) 866-3970

odonnelld@nyassembly.gov

https://www.facebook.com/daniel.j.odonnell.nyc

Catalina Cruz, (518) 455-4567, (718) 458-5367 @catalinacruzny

cruzc@nyassembly.gov

https://www.facebook.com/CatalinaCruzNY

Steven Cymbrowitz: (518) 455-5214, (718) 743-4078

Voted YES in Health Committee

cymbros@nyassembly.gov

Twitter: @cymbrowitz

https://www.facebook.com/AssemblymanStevenCymbrowitz

Patricia Fahy, (518) 455-4178, Co-Sponsor

@patricafahy

FahyP@nyassembly.gov

https://www.facebook.com/patricia.fahy.127

Charles D. Lavine, (518) 455-5456, (516) 676-0050, Co-Sponsor

@CharlesLavineNY

lavinec@nyassembly.gov

https://www.facebook.com/CharlesLavineNY

Linda Rosenthal: (518) 455-5802, (212) 873-6368, Co-Sponsor

Voted YES in Health Committee

rosentl@nyassembly.gov

No Twitter

No Facebook

Andrew Hevesi: (518) 455-4926, (718) 263-5595, Co-Sponsor

Voted YES in Health Committee

HevesiA@nyassembly.gov

Twitter: @AndrewHevesi

https://www.facebook.com/assemblymanandrew.hevesi.3

Tom Abinanti, (518) 455-5753, (914) 631-1605,

Voted NO in Health Committee

abinantit@nyassembly.gov

Twitter: @Tom Abinanti

https://www.facebook.com/Abinanti2010

 

 

Republicans:

 

Joseph Giglio, (518) 455-5241, (518) 373-7103

No Twitter

giglioj@nyassembly.gov

No Facebook

 

John Mikulin, (518) 455-5341, (516) 228-4960

@johnmikulin

mikulinj@nyassembly.gov

https://www.facebook.com/JohnMikulinForNYSAssembly

 

Michael Montesano, (518) 455-5477, (516) 937-3571

@asmmontesano

MontesanoM@nyassembly.gov

https://www.facebook.com/Assemblyman.Michael.Montesano

 

Angelo Morinello, (518) 455-5964, (716) 282-4226

No Twitter

morinelloa@nyassembly.gov

https://www.facebook.com/votejudgemorinello

Michael Reilly, (518) 455-4495, (718) 967-5282

@michaelwreilly

Reillym@nyassembly.gov

https://www.facebook.com/michael.reilly.7547

Michael Tannousis, (518) 455-5716, (718) 439-8090

@MikeTannousis

tannousis@nyassembly.gov

https://www.facebook.com/michael.tannousis.9