As you may have heard the State Senate passed the restricting pier jumping bill by a vote of 35-2. It still has to move to the house tourism committee, the house of Representatives, and eventually the governor. If you feel that this bill should not become a law then please take the time to cut and paste the below article. Send it to any of our representatives, the senators, and our governor. Just perform a quick google search for Michigan State reps. and senators. Most of their websites have quick contact links. They say 1 letter represents the views of 40,000 people, due to the fact, so few citizens are active in our democracy. This paragraph was submitted by Chris Madison, and I think it is a great one!
My wishes are to not let the bill #629, for restricting the jumping, diving or swimming form any pier or jetty structure in the Great Lakes, make it to law. I am a surfer on the Great Lakes and for better than 22yrs I have been using these piers as a safer platform to get to the waves we surf. These pier structures make it possible for us to surf in Michigan and have been a vital piece of our surfing culture around the Great Lakes from the moment it started. There is an industry that supports this activity here and without being able to surf off these piers will make it less accessible to a number of people. We have spent a lot of time on these structures and now they may be taken from us in that way. We are concerned.
Great Lakes Surfer,
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