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Hi Joan -Please forgive my earlier post; it had been a long day and night......Thanks for the note - and congratulations on so swiftly taking up the challenge to action! Unless a good many activists follow your lead in contacting the AARP official nearest them and together to bring in or retain specific votes, the shift in AARP policy won’t have much impact and Pete Kelley’s work to move AARP will have been for naught. When Charlie phoned me several days ago, having received a copy of your fax and wanting to know what he could do to help, I failed to point out this key fact. I should IMMEDIATELY SUGGEST To APDA, NPD and every other PD organization that they inform their members ASAP about this opportunity even before it becomes official AARP policy, because time is short (50 working days to recess), as well as alerting PD activists and others who read this internet PD service, which I have already begun and am continuing with this posting., How did your discussion with Peter go? I am trying to follow my own advice, as he may have told you, by trying to get AARP to co-sponsor, together with my Rutland and the other six support groups in the State, a meeting with Senators Jeffords and Leahy to persuade them of the value of financing a reconstructed Udall Bill in fell swoop. He says that it is not on AARP’s agenda -- sounds familiar doesn’t it -- but he is still trying. At the least he will show up as a guest himself. Let’s keep each other posted.