thank you, Kathleen!!

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From: Kathleen Cochran
Sent: Friday, May 27, 2011 6:12 AM
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Subject: Re: Fw: URGENT!

Done, Ray. Thanks.

Kathleen

On 26 May 2011 13:47, Rayilyn Brown <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> As you know CA is a leader in medical research due to Don Reed.  He has
> always been there for the Parkinson’s community when we needed him.   Can
> you help by taking a few minutes and email these people?   Or call if you
> can still speak.  I can only email.   Thanks.
>
> From: Don Reed
> Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2011 9:45 AM
> To: undisclosed-recipients:
> Subject: URGENT!
>
> URGENT!
>
>
> AB 190 will be voted on by the California Assembly Appropriations 
> Committee
> on Friday, May 27.
>
>
>
>
>  Felipe Fuentes - Chair  Dem-39    (916) 319-2039
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> cc: [log in to unmask]
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>
> Diane L. Harkey - Vice Chair  Rep-73   (916) 319-2073
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> Cc: [log in to unmask]
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>
>
> Roman and I will be in Sacramento this morning. Please everybody help us
> this last day-- make a call to one or both of the above people. It will 
> cost
> you five minutes, and it could make the difference between the bill being
> heard, or not. We believe we have the votes to win, but the chair must be
> convinced. If he takes a neutral or positive position, we will probably 
> win.
> But if he opposes...
>
>
>
> Below is another article on the subject just published in Huffington Post.
>
>
>
> BTW, Roman and I visited Geron yesterday, and saw some of the research in
> action which the RR Act began--I wish anyone even considering voting 
> against
> AB 190 could see what we saw, and listen to the scientists as they 
> struggle
> towards cure.
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
>
>
> Don
>
>
>
> NOT TOO LATE TO FIGHT FOR CURE: Ten Reasons to Support California
> Spinal Cord Research
>
> By Don C. Reed
>
> This Friday, AB 190 (Wieckowski, D-Fremont) will be voted on in the
> powerful Appropriations Committee. AB 190 would give renewed life to
> the Roman Reed Spinal Cord Injury Research Act, one of the most
> effective research programs ever done.
>
> Here are ten reasons to vote yes—plus 47 key groups and supporters—
> and the people you can contact right now to make a difference.
>
> 1. With zero cost to taxpayers, AB 190 will fund California’s highly
> successful Roman Reed Spinal Cord Injury Research Act of 1999, named
> after a paralyzed Californian.
>
> 2. AB 190 will impose a $3 penalty on all moving traffic violations.
> As car crash is a major (46%) cause of spinal cord injury, violators
> should help solve the problem they inflict on others.
>
> 4. Operated by the University of California system, the program
> already has its core lab and headquarters set up at the Reeve-Irvine
> Research Institute, UC Irvine.
>
> 5. California will continue to profit financially. A “money
> magnet”, the Act attracted $64 million in new revenues from the
> National Institutes of Health and other out-of-state sources.
>
> 6. The biomedical industry, mainstay of the California economy, also
> benefits; biomed companies (like California Stem Cells, Inc.) spring
> from successful scientists’ advances.
>
> 7. Although “Roman’s Law” funded the first use of President
> Bush’s approved stem cell lines, leading to Geron’s historic human
> trials, AB 190 concentrates primarily on the “everything else” that
> is needed for cure: including ways to turn on the body’s natural
> repair engines, and turn off the “inhibitors” of cure; to ease life-
> threatening blood-pressure changes; diminish the “secondary injury”
> that often doubles the damage to the spine; build biological
> “bridges” for new nerves to grow across; to diminish chronic pain,
> restore bowel and bladder control, and much more.
>
> 8. In 175 peer-reviewed publications, Roman’s law has advanced the
> field of neurology, with “carry-over” impact on other conditions,
> including ALS (Lou Gehrig’s disease), Spinal Muscular Atrophy,
> Traumatic Brain Injury, Multiple Sclerosis—indeed, one treatment
> developed for Spinal Cord Injury may offer help for Irritable Bowel
> Syndrome!
>
> 9. Practical applications range from small to staggering: a new Petri
> dish, (patent pending) which sorts cells by electrical potential; a
> helmet-glove device to return the power of grip to frozen fingers;
> robotic “boots” to lower rehabilitation costs; a way to harness
> brainwaves, so a completely paralyzed person can operate a computer by
> thought alone; even a new paralysis “model”, humanely designed so a
> monkey would have just one finger paralyzed.
>
> 10.  The problem AB 190 addresses is enormous. An estimated 5.6
> million Americans suffer paralysis today: California has roughly
> 650,000 paralyzed individuals. The financial costs are staggering.
> New paralysis sufferers face bills averaging $775,000 in the first
> year alone, and are an immense and continual drain on Medi-Cal and
> Medicare. The agony of individuals and the stress on their families
> cannot be calculated.
>
> For more information, contact: Jeff Barbosa:(916) 319-2020
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>
>
>
> Here are the members of the approps list, if you have time.
>
>
>
> [log in to unmask] for chair Felipe Fuentes
>
> [log in to unmask] for vice-chair Diane L. Harkey
>
> [log in to unmask]  for Assembleman Steven Bradford
>
> [log in to unmask] for Bob Blumenfeld
>
> [log in to unmask] for Mike Davis
>
> [log in to unmask] for Mike Gatto
>
> [log in to unmask]  for Nora Campos
>
> [log in to unmask]  for Assembly majority leader Charles Calderon
>
> [log in to unmask] for Donald P. Wagner
>
> [log in to unmask] for Isadore Hall
>
> [log in to unmask] for Ricardo Lara
>
> [log in to unmask] for Chris Norby
>
> [log in to unmask] for Jim Nielsen
>
> [log in to unmask] for Tim Donnely
>
> [log in to unmask] for Jose Solorio
>
> [log in to unmask] for Jerry Hill
>
> [log in to unmask] for Holly Mitchell
>
>
>
>
>
> AB 190 (Wieckowski, D-Fremont) SUPPORT LIST
>
>
>
> From across America, support is strong for AB 190.  Distinguished
> individuals and organizations include:
>
> Paul Berg (Nobel Prize winner), Stanford University School of Medicine
>
> Jeffrey A. Bluestone, Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost, University of
> California, San Francisco
>
> Rayilyn Brown, Arizona Chapter National Parkinson Foundation
>
> Nancy Brackett, University of Miami School of Medicine
>
> Nina Brown, Founding Boardmember, Lorraine Chammah, President,
> Texans for Advancement of Medical Research
>
> California Healthcare Institute (CHI, representing more than 100 
> biomedical
> companies).
>
> Susan Chandler, Treasurer, California Disability Rights Organization
>
> Stemcyte, President Calvin Cole
>
> California Chiropractic Association, Kassie Donoghue, DC, Government
> Affairs Chair
>
> W. Dalton Dietrich, Ph.D., Miami Project to Cure Paralysis
>
> John Dutra, (D-Fremont, retired)  author, Roman Reed Spinal Cord Injury
> Research Act of 1999
>
> V. Reggie Edgerton, UCLA Professor, Brain Research Institute
>
> Brooke Ellison,(Christopher Reeve’s last project was directing a movie
> about paralyzed Brooke)
>
>
>
> Lucy Fisher and Doug Wick, Sony Pictures
>
> Jeannie Fontana, CEO SALSa, Inc. Solutions for ALS
>
> Eric Fingerhut, Chancellor, University System of Ohio
>
> University of California,Karen French, Associate Director, Legislative
> Affair
>
> Leeza Gibbons, Leeza’s Place (Alzheimer’s)
>
> Lawrence Goldstein, Director, UCSD Stem Cell Program
>
> Hans Keirstead, (researcher whose Geron work now in world’s first clinical
> trials stem cells), UC-Irvine Professor, Chair, Scientific Advisory Board,
> California Stem Cell, Inc.
>
> Stephanie A. Kolakowsky-Hayner, Director of Rehab Research, Santa Clara
> Valley Medical Center
>
> Suzy Kim, Medical Director, SCI Acute Care, UCI Medical Center
>
> Bob Klein, Founder,Proposition 71, the Californians for Stem Cell Research
> and Cures Initiative
>
> Dena Ladd, Executive Director, Missouri Coalition for Lifesaving Cures
>
> Sherry Lansing, Chair, Sherry Lansing Foundation
> Academy Award Winner Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award
>
> Stem Cells Inc., Martin McGlynn, President & CEO
>
> Karen Miner, Cofounder, Research for Cure
>
> Ed Monuki, Associate Professor, UC Irvine
>
> Rania Nasis, General Manager, CA Stem Cell, Inc.
>
> Richard Patterson, M.D., Santa Clara Valley Medical Center
>
> Renee A Reijo Pera, Director of Reproductive and Stem Cell Biology
> Division, Stanford University
>
> Dan Perry, President, CEO, Alliance for Aging Research, Washington, DC
>
> Claire Pomeroy, Chief Executive Officer, UC Davis Health Department
>
> Brock Reeve, Executive Director, Harvard Stem Cell Institute, (Christopher
> Reeve’s brother)
>
> Bill Remak, Chairman, California Hepatitis Task Force
>
> Duane Roth, CEO, CONNECT
>
> Rose Marie Salerno, VA Palo Alto Health Care System
>
> Lori Sames, Executive Director, Hannah’s Hope Fund
>
> Bernie Siegel, founder and chair, Stem Cell Action Coalition (70 groups),
> and Genetics Policy Institute
>
> Marilyn Smith, Executive Director, Unite 2 Fight Paralysis
>
> Michael Sofroniew, M.D., Professor, UCLA
>
>
>
> Texans for Stem Cell Research, David L. Bales, Chairman
>
> Jim Bennett, Spinal Cord Injury Research Foundation, Rutgers University,
> New Jersey
>
> Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation, Peter T. Wilderotter, President & CEO
>
> Shinya Yamanaka, Ph.D  (inventor of induced Pluripotent Stem cells),
> Director, Center for iPS Cell Research and Applications, Kyoto University,
> Japan
>
> Fanyi Zheng, Professor and Associate Director, Shanghai Stem Cell
> Institute, Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, China
>
> Jerry Zucker (movie director, Ghost, Airplane, Naked Gun), Founding board
> member, CURESNOW
>
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