Keep New York City's East River Bridges Toll-Free!: Stop tolls on East River Bridges - Tell your Senators and Representatives in Albany, Governor Paterson, and the New York City Council to prevent any plans to toll NYC's East River/Harlem River bridges!

Current MTA/TBTA tolls are onerous enough, serve to distort traffic patterns, and result in a more insular and parochial City which benefits no one in the aggregate. Adding new tolls to the East River facilities are an obvious and cynical attempt to fund an important and compelling state interest. Instead of a money grab from the easiest group of people from whom the MTA can get a new source of lucrative revenue, it is about time that the State of New York realize the importance of an effective, efficient, and viable mass transit system for the "downstate" region, and find equitable and sustainable solutions to funding mass transit instead of continuously pitting the motorist against the transit rider as a short-term, short-sighted, solution.

Use the LobbyByFax System to send a free fax to Governor Paterson and members of the New York State Senate and Assembly opposing any new tolls on currently free bridges in New York City. (Note: Please select New York state from the initial drop-down state-selection page.)

The complete constituent letter in raw-text form is available for viewing here.

Stop Photo Radar in Maryland and the Expanded use in Montgomery/Prince George's Counties of Speed/Red Light Cameras, Red Light Cameras, and other Automated Traffic Enforcement Systems.

The State of Maryland is considering expanding the use of photo radar within Montgomery and Prince George's Counties and to other areas of the state, and to increasing the speeds at which they can be used to 45 and even 55 on highways in Prince George's County. (See: Senate Bill 269/House Bill 364.) Photo Radar and other automatic enforcement mechanisms violate such basic constitutional tenets as notice, due process and the right to confront and question an accuser, and are in actuality easy to implement revenue generation services masquerading as safety measures by cynical and cash-strapped officials who speak of safety when in fact they have done little to actually promote it. Photo radar forces the owner (not the driver) of the vehicle to defend themselves in court (wasting time and effort), and is subject to malicious "cloning" where plates are copied and run through photo enforcement to force the owners to appear to defend themselves for something they had no part in. Photo enforcement also effectively creates a "pay to speed" or "pay to run red light" system, where motorists who are in a hurry will opt to speed, konwing there is a minimal fine and no criminal effect. Finally, these automated systems can lead to an even greater degree of automated monitoring of traffic movements and driving patterns, where the state, if taken to it's ultimate conclusion, can monitor (and penalize) the movement of motorists on significant aspects of its road network.

Use the LobbyByFax System to send a free fax to Governor O'Malley and members of the Maryland State Senate and House of Delegates opposing the expansion of the photo-radar and photo enforcement program! (Note: Please select Maryland from the initial drop-down state-selection page.)

The complete constituent letter in raw-text form is available for viewing here.

Rebuild the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center: Although current plans to rebuild the World Trade Center provide for an impressively tall 1,776 foot structure, the skyline of NYC will never be restored without the orignal twin towers of the WTC, and anything short of this goal will forever remain a tacit concession to those who destroyed them.

The Freedom Tower is at best compromise to the exigencies of backroom politics and at worst a capitulation to those who attacked us, and it would be a shame if for the remainder of the 21s Century and others to follow, anything but a larger and better version of the Twin Towers is allowed to be built.

Use the LobbyByFax system to send a free fax to Governors Spitzer and Corzine, the New York City Council Speaker, NYC Mayor Bloomberg, the New York and New Jersey Congressional Delegation, members of the New York State and New Jersey State Legislatures, and the leadership of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.

The complete constituent letter in raw-text form is available for viewing here.

Put an end to SPAM!: Despite a number of attempts by Congress and state governments to stop unsolicited commercial e-mail, or "Spam", there is a demonstrably greater amount of unsolicited e-mail now than ever before, and prior efforts to reign in spam have been so ineffective that they seem to legitimize rather than prevent the continuing growth of spam.

Spam is quite simply waste of time, becoming and increasing annoyance, and causing the potential of the Internet to be severely handicapped by effectively forcing people to spend more time deleting spam and/or losing desired messages to "spam filters" in an effort to keep ahead of this scourge, rather than in actually communicating efficiently and effortlessly via e-mail.

Take action with LobbyByFax to immediately fax your Congressional delegation urging them to enact meaningful, effective and enforceable national legislation, potentially in conjunction with extra-national anti-spam laws, to stop these offensively opportunistic mass e-mailers from plauging everyone's mail and ruining the Internet.

Stop the Recording Industry: The heavyhanded approach of the recording industry to block copying of records is a cheap attempt to have Congress and thus the American public pay for the failed policies of the Recording Industry.

We should not tolerate, and Congress should not allow, the onerous restrictions which the Recording Industry wishes to impose upon us as the cost and loss of utility which such restrictions will create are incalculably greater than the minimal benefit in terms of higher profits which will be generated for the Industry.

Use LobbyByFax.com to send a free fax to your Congressional Delegation urging them to oppose and stop any of the Recording industry's attempts to further restrict use of the Internet to further their purely remunerative aspirations.

Stop the Connecticut Cellphone Ban: Send a free fax to CT. Gov. Jodi Rell urging her to stop supporting the CT Cellphone ban requiring the use of "hands-free" devices while driving. The ban encourages the much more dangerous use of text-messaging while driving, can cause driver confusion while fumbling for cables or hands-free devices to answer calls, and in general places government intrusively in loco parentis as a overseer of personal responsibility and behavior rather than act as an arbiter of results.

Stop New York City Congestion Pricing (NYS/NYC): Send a fax for free to the Mayor of New York, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, and the New York State Assembly and Senate urging New York City and State elected officials to make much more of an effort to alleviate congestion, such as more freqeunt subway service (day and especially nighttime), elminate tolls on bridges and facilities not connecting to Manhattan to divert traffic onto highways, improving roads by paving and maintaining them properly, increasing parking spaces and/or modifying alternate side of the street regulations to reduce aimless driving to find parking spots, and in general, take responsible actions which any governmental body would and should do before spending money to implement an effective tax and new stream of revenue to alleviate a problem which NYC by way of its own incompetance and traffic mismanagement for 50 years has caused. (Note: New York State residents, or those wishing to send faxes to the New York State Assembly or Senate, please select "New York" from the state selection menu. Any other state selection will only present local New York City officials.)

Stop Federal Funding for New York City's Congestion Pricing: Similar to the the above alert, respondents here may send a fax to Senators and Represenatives in the US Congres to urge them not to in any way fund New York City's Congestion Pricing Scheme as there is better use for hundreds of millions of Federal tax dollars than rewarding the utter incompetance of NYC's poor traffic management and opportunistic tolling with an additional source of revenue via congestion pricing. New York City should instead provide attractive alternatives to driving, such as patrolled Park and Ride and Commuter Parking lots, toll-free access on bridges and facilities which do not enter the Central Business District, improved rail service with existing yet unused facilities, and in general, to do much more with what it has and what it could easily enact but for the topheavy, mismanaged, do-nothing beaurocracy which passes under the guise of Traffic Management.

Stop I-80 and Interstates from being tolled!: Governor Rendell of Pennsylvania and the Penn. State Legislature have approved a plan to toll Intertate 80 in Pennsylvania to raise added revenue, despite the relatively high gas tax allready levied by the state of Pennsylvania for road maintenance. Reps. Phil English and John Peterson have proposed that should a given state impose tolls on previously free roads, that the Federal Government reduce that given state's road allocation by an amount concomitant with the toll revenue gained, effectively disincentivizing the state from imposing any tolls. (A complete description of the I-80 tolling issue and the English-Peterson bill is detailed here.) Send a fax to Congress telling your Senators and Represantatives to support the English-Peterson bill and other similar measures so as to prevent mismanaged and opportunistic states from raising tolls and revenue above and beyond gas tax revenue from non-represented/non-constituent motorists.