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something for that, I truly believe that
they’ll listen to you. It wasn’t some-
thing we were selling them. It was
“it’s just amaziNg that we have to eveN go more that we were educating them on
through the legal process to have a law the purpose of the bill, and how it will
affect other companies throughout the
that states that, hey, if somethiNg happeNs state.”
oN your property aNd oNe of your employees Rep. Neal said there were few
caused it, you’re liaBle. i meaN, that is objections to the bill and that he didn’t
elemeNtary.” have to do much convincing of his
fellow legislators. He praised the work
of the ATA.
—Butch rice, presideNt, “You’ve got to be involved in the
stallioN traNsportatioN group process and build relationships, and
Shannon and (lobbyists) Bill (Vickery)
and Mitchell (Lowe) did a great job
of that, reaching out and helping
were willing to take time to listen to us it to legislators. Some of the legislators candidates and building up a trust in
understood that we were being extended with whom he spoke had already talked conversation and just laying out the
beyond what was fair,” Newton said. to trucking companies that weren’t issue for them,” he said. “When people
Rice said the bill was successful even in their district. see generally that an issue is one-sided
this year, as opposed to 2013, because “Legislators have a tough job,” like that situation was, they want to go
legislators understood it better. He he said, “and I think that if you go to in and make it right and make it bal-
praised Newton for the job she and the them with honesty and integrity, not anced, and so I think that was a pretty
rest of the ATA’s team did in explaining trying to get something for this or get easy issue to do that on.”

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