Ratchet

The bikers rights movement has been going in circles for decades. Every year it's the same cycle, over and over.

It starts moving with getting enough bikers to agree on what a repeal bill should contain. Age, experience, training, and insurance are the standard issues to debate.

Of course they never call it "repeal," instead opting for words like "reform" or modification." It's as if they're afraid to say repeal, or perhaps they're trying to trick legislators into thinking it's something else.

Once a repeal bill gets submitted, out go the "calls to action." That will generate surge of emails from keyboard commandos. And not surprisingly, they don't change anyone's mind.

Finally, it comes down the committee hearing. Bikers will pack the hearing room, just like last year. And the bill doesn't pass, just like last year. So the bikers helplessly watch all their hard work go down the tubes.

Again.

Then it's back to the drawing board, and they will try to figure out how to get better at doing what doesn't work. Lather, rinse, repeat.

The irony is that it doesn't have to be this way, working up as much energy as possible, only to see it all fall on deaf ears, year after year.

Campaign work is totally different. It isn't like a wheel, spinning in circles. It's more like a ratchet, steadily moving forward but never retreating.

Every election cycle, we pick up another couple of biker-friendly legislators. And once they're elected, they stay there for a long time.

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Every legislative session, we get a vote count on the latest repeal bill. Then we know which legislators to knock out of office during the next election.

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With each new election, and each new session, we get closer and closer to our objective, which is a biker-friendly majority. There is no "back to the drawing board" about it. The gains we make are gains we keep.

If this sounds good to you, take a look at the Repeal Machine Handbook. Everything you need to do is in there, step-by-step.

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-Ride2Repeal@gmail.com