From the WA Sustainable Food & Farming Network:<\/p>\n
Hi Network Members and Friends of Sustainable Agriculture,
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\nThank you so much for your endorsements, your emails, your calls, your trips to Olympia. They worked!!!!
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\nThe Senate Ag and Rural Development Committee unanimously passed SB 6343 this afternoon.\u00a0 The bill has been slightly modified since introduction. Several additional seats were added to the table to include more farmers, labor, independent grocers and international trade. In addition the name was changed to the Washington Food Policy Forum.\u00a0 The bill now moves to the Rules Committee and then hopefully to the Senate Floor for a vote later this month.\u00a0 At this point it is very helpful to make calls to your Senator and make sure they know about the bill and ask them for their support.
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\nIf some of you could leave messages thanking the following Senators on the Ag Committee I am sure they would appreciate it! Either call\u00a0 1-800 562 6000 or email the Senators thanking them for supporting the Washington Food Policy Forum!\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Senator\/Email\/Phone We are still collecting farm and organization endorsements for SB6343. Thank you so much to the folks that have already sent in their endorsement. We anticipate a full Senate Vote on this bill later this month and more endorsers will help!\u00a0 Thanks so much From the WA Sustainable Food & Farming Network: Hi Network Members and Friends of Sustainable Agriculture, \u00a0 Thank you so much for your endorsements, your emails, your calls, your trips to Olympia. They worked!!!! \u00a0 The Senate Ag and Rural Development Committee unanimously passed SB 6343 this afternoon.\u00a0 The bill has been slightly modified since […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-276743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276743\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nHatfield, Brian (D) Chairhatfield.brian@leg.wa.gov(360<\/a>) 786-7636
\nRanker, Kevin (D) Vice Chairranker.kevin@leg.wa.gov(360<\/a>) 786-7678
\nSchoesler, Mark (R) schoesler.mark@leg.wa.gov(360<\/a>) 786-7620
\nBecker, Randi (R) becker.randi@leg.wa.gov<\/a> (360) 786-7602
\nHaugen, Mary Margaret (D) haugen.marymargaret@leg.wa.gov<\/a> (360) 786-7618
\nJacobsen, Ken (D) jacobsen.ken@leg.wa.gov<\/a> (360) 786-7690
\nMorton, Bob (R) morton.bob@leg.wa.gov<\/a> (360) 786-7612
\nShin, Paull (D) shin.paull@leg.wa.gov<\/a> (360) 786-7640<\/p>\n
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\nEllen Gray
\nExecutive Director
\nWashington Sustainable Food\u00a0 &\u00a0 Farming Network
\nPO Box 762, Mount Vernon WA. 98273-0762
\nPhone: (360) 336-9694\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Fax: (360) 336-1579
\negray@wsffn.org<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 www.wsffn.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"