However, to help us clean up our mailing list we are requiring that all those interested in receiving the newsletter, send us the coupon on page 23 of this newsletter . We are also going to ask you for financial contributions more regularly. I have resisted frequent requests for money from our membership, but the reality is that we need it, so I have to ask. We are a one-issue organization that exists solely to change sentencing laws. If that matters to you, please help us succeed.
Grassroots organizations can make a big difference when they have the membership and the money.
Strategically, FAMM is also making changes. When I first started FAMM in 1991, I believed that by changing federal sentencing policy, state sentencing policy would change. In the current political climate, I now think the reverse may be true. While we increase our efforts in state sentencing reform, we will continue to actively pursue federal sentencing reform. Continued pressure must be put on Congress to make them see how their laws affect their constituents.