ABATE of Michigan President ~ Gary Kopta

Hello everyone, I just returned from our Freedom Rally in Lansing. It was a good time. It started out with a phone call from Ted Nugent welcoming us all in a way only Ted Nugent could. Then he proceeded to introduce a young lady that played guitar and sang a couple beautiful songs. After that our friends from the timber industry gave their presentation. This is the group that brings the Capital Christmas tree to Lansing every year. When they were done it was my turn. We began with a few helmet laws suck chants followed by region roll call. We had a couple of Reps speak (thanks Rep Greg Alexander and Rep Dave Martin). These two Representatives are strong supporters and ABATE of Michigan members. Also, Rep Martin rode to the Freedom Rally. Always nice to see. Bear spoke about legislative events happening and Jinx talked about the MRF. Magoo also added some comments. Thanks again to those guys for speaking. Especially thanks to all the members that showed up to support us. If you missed it you missed a lot. Along with ABATE and the timber industry we had the best fish dinners again and Denny from the timber industry brought down 12 tubs of ice cream from the U.P.

Thanks Scott (Owner of the capital house where event is held) for organizing an outstanding event. It takes a lot to coordinate these many organizations, and Scott did a phenomenal job. 

Friday morning my wife Debbie and I are heading up to the Field Meet. This field meet should be quite an event also. Merry and her committee have done a great job of setting up a bunch of activities to keep everyone entertained. I was volunteered for the dunk tank so I'm hoping for hot weather. It sounds like there may be a few members that would love to see me in the water. 

One last thing. There is an election this year. Some districts are won in the primary meaning if it's mostly a democrat district then the democrat primary winner is probably going to win the general election. Same for republican districts. Please do your research on the candidates in the primary make sure to vote for the candidate with a good track record or one that has a good line to feed ya.

Ride safe everyone