2016 Officers PRESIDENT Glenn Phillips [email protected] 707-624-6310 VICE PRESIDENT Mike Todd [email protected] 707-208-3174 News Letter for February 2016 SECRETARY Brian Hamlet [email protected] 707-330-3444 TREASURER Cathy O’Connell What is A.B.A.T.E.? [email protected] 707-365-1963 American MEMBERSHIP Brotherhood Teasa M. Gonzales [email protected] Aimed 707-761-7030 RUN COORDINATOR Toward LeAnn Hoffmann Education [email protected] 707-628-4843 RAFFLE COORDINATOR What we are all about: Cody Russell ABATE is a motorcyclists’ rights organization [email protected] (not a club) dedicated to preserving freedom of 267-622-5889 choice and freedom of the road, with emphasis MERCHANDISE on education and safety.

Gilbert Camou Our members are active in programs [email protected] for public awareness and motorcycle safety, and in supporting many types of charity events. NEWSLETTER/CARDS Geno Hamrick Included with an ABATE membership are a sew [email protected] on patch, membership card, and our monthly newsletter, THE BAILING WIRE. Which comes from the State office and the Local Newsletter WEBMASTER from each local. Dave Allen [email protected] There are no special requirements for joining [email protected] aside from an interest in promoting PUBLIC RELATION motorcyclists’ rights and safety with payment of the appropriate fees. Shauna Manina (707) 249-5846 [email protected] Subscribe to the ABATE discussion group: go to www.abate.org; hover over “About ABATE” and click on (next to bottom) ABATE Discussion Group; read and follow then put in your email address Voila!

Legislation of Interest in AB 8 - Hit-and-run incidents - Gatto signed by Governor- This bill authorizes a law enforcement agency to issue a Yellow Alert if a person has been killed or has suffered serious bodily injury due to a hit-and-run incident and the law enforcement agency has specified information concerning the suspect or the suspect’s vehicle. The bill would authorize the Department of the California Highway Patrol to activate a Yellow Alert within the requested geographic area upon request if it concurs with the law enforcement agency that specified requirements are met.

AB 51 - Lane Splitting - Quirk (2-year bill) - This bill would authorize a motorcycle that has 2 wheels in contact with the ground to be driven between rows of stopped or moving vehicles in the same lane if the speed of traffic is 30 miles per hour or less motorcycle is not driven at a speed of more than 50 miles per hour and the motorcycle is driven no more than 10 15 miles per hour faster than the speed of traffic.

AB 334 - Anti-Profiling - Cooley (2-year bill)- This bill would require the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training to ensure that the profiling of motorcycle riders is addressed in the course of basic law enforcement training and offered to law enforcement officers in conjunction with existing training regarding profiling. The bill would require all local law enforcement agencies to adopt a written policy designed to condemn and prevent the profiling of motorcycle riders.

SB 34 - Automated license plate recognition systems: use of data, Hill - authorizes the Department of the California Highway Patrol to retain license plate data captured by license plate recognition (LPR) technology, also referred to as an automated license plate recognition (ALPR) system, for not more than 60 days unless the data is being used as evidence or for the investigation of felonies.

AB 222 - Vehicle Registration – Achadjian- prohibits the disclosure of the home addresses of certain public employees and officials, including an employee of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, Division of Juvenile Facilities or the Prison Industry Authority, that appear in records of the Department of Motor Vehicles, except to a court, a law enforcement agency, an attorney in a civil or criminal action under certain circumstances, and certain other official entities.

AB 346 - proof of identity including full face examination -Wilk signed by Governor. This bill would additionally require that the arrested person be taken immediately before a magistrate if he or she fails to present both his or her driver’s license or other evidence of identity and an unobstructed view of his or her full face for examination.

The California Highway Patrol (CHP) is statutorily responsible for California's official motorcycle safety training program. Pursuant to California Vehicle Code Sections 2930-2935, the CHP administers the CMSP through a primary contractor, currently Total Control Training Inc.

The CHP strongly encourages all motorcycle riders to sign up for the CMSP, which is administered by the CHP as California's official motorcycle safety and training program. The Program offers courses for new and experienced riders. “If you do not take an interest in the affairs of your government, then you are doomed to live under the rule of fools.” ~ Plato (428-347 BC)

A.B.A.T.E Local 17 and Iron Steed Harley Davidson Hot Rods and Harleys nd th 22 Annual 18 Annual Show June 5th

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If you’re flying a Patch, or not. Watch your back. Stick together This article was found in another publication. This is being shared to enlighten everyone who is interested.

Something I found about the Waco shoot out. Waco witness: ‘It was a setup from start to finish’ WACO — Richie was the first to die, then Diesel, then Dog.

Whatever else they were in life, the men with the biker nicknames were Cossacks, loud and proud and riders in a Texas motorcycle gang. And that’s what got them killed, shot to death in a brawl with a rival gang in the parking lot of a Texas “breastaurant” that advertised hot waitresses and cold beer.

“I saw the first three of our guys fall, and we started running,” said their brother-in-arms, another Cossack, who said he was there a week ago when the shooting started at the Twin Peaks restaurant.

The Cossack, president of a North Texas chapter of the motorcycle gang, asked not to be identified because he is in hiding and said he fears for his life. He is a rare eyewitness speaking publicly about the Waco shootings, one of the worst eruptions of biker-gang violence in U.S. history.

Since last week’s violence, Waco police have offered few conclusions in their investigation. But they have said that the violence was touched off when an uninvited group, presumed to be the Cossacks, showed up at a meeting of a larger confederation of motorcycle clubs dominated by the Bandidos.

In several interviews in recent days, the Cossacks rider offered a different story. He said the Cossacks were invited to the Twin Peaks patio that day — by a Bandido leader, who offered to make peace in a long-running feud between the two gangs. That invitation was a setup for an ambush, though, according to the Cossack. That’s why the dead included six Cossacks, one Scimitar (an ally of the Cossacks) and only two Bandidos.

The biker’s story could not be independently verified; most of those involved in the shootout are still in jail. But significant parts of his account square with police statements, as well as security camera videos obtained by The Associated Press.

The biker culture has unwritten rules that everybody in its world knows and has predictable consequences for stepping out of line.

So when a biker from the Bandidos, the oldest gang in Texas and one of the largest in the world, ran into a young Cossack in the Twin Peaks parking lot last Sunday, everyone knew what was coming. First words, then fists, then guns. Within seconds, Richie, Diesel and Dog were dead.

“I took off,” the Cossacks rider said. “I got out of there. I didn’t have a weapon. I couldn’t fight anybody.”

At odds for years

It started with a phone call.

About a week before the gunfight, according to the Cossack, a leader of the Bandidos, a man named Marshall from East Texas, contacted Owen Reeves, the “nomad,” or leader, of the Cossacks’ Central Texas region.

The two gangs had been at odds for years. The Bandidos consider themselves the big dogs of the Texas biker world, and other gangs — or clubs, as they prefer to be called — generally don’t cross them.

The Bandidos wear their claim to the Lone Star State on their backs. Their vests have “Bandidos” across the shoulders, just above their logo, a caricature based on Frito-Lay’s Frito Bandito. Below, the word “Texas” is stitched boldly in an inverted crescent.

That crescent, the “Texas rocker,” has long belonged to the Bandidos, and they consider it a provocation if someone else wears it without permission, which is exactly what the Cossacks did.

The Bandidos are second in numbers only to the Hells Angels and have as many as 2,500 members in 13 countries, according to the Justice Department, which considers the group a violent criminal enterprise engaged in running drugs and guns. The Cossacks, a smaller group, do not show up on law enforcement lists of criminal gangs, but the group has been growing more aggressive in recent years. Officials have warned of the potential for violence between the two gangs.

“We don’t claim any territory, but the reason that the Bandidos have such an issue with us is that we wear the Texas rocker on our back, but we don’t pay them $100 a month per chapter to do it,” the Cossack said.

On May 1, the Texas Department of Public Safety issued a bulletin to law enforcement agencies across the state warning about the Bandidos having “discussed the possibility of going to war” with the Cossacks, largely over the issue of the Texas rocker.

The bulletin noted that on March 22, several Cossacks attacked a Bandido with chains, batons and metal pipes. On the same day, Bandidos attacked a Cossack with a hammer and demanded that he remove the Texas rocker from his vest.

After all that, the phone call from Marshall was a welcome olive branch, the Cossack said.

Marshall invited the Cossacks to Twin Peaks last week when the Texas Confederation of Clubs and Independents was scheduled to hold a major meeting. Those meetings are generally about bikers’ rights, safety and other administrative issues. The Bandidos dominate that organization; the Cossacks are not members.

Marshall said that the Bandidos “wanted to get this cleared up,” according to the Cossack, who was relating what he said Reeves told him.

“He said, ‘Bring your brothers, hang out, and let’s get this fixed and we can all leave in peace and be happy.’ He was talking to our chapter in Waco. ... The leader of our Central Texas chapter said, ‘OK, I’m going to make this happen.’ ”

Reeves, who was jailed after the melee, could not be reached for comment. No members of the Bandidos could be reached for comment.

On the patio

Last week, about 70 Cossacks on Harley-Davidsons thundered down Interstate 35 through Waco and rolled into the parking lot of the Twin Peaks.

The Cossack said he and the others congregated on the outdoor patio and started ordering food and drinks. They chatted with other bikers from smaller mom-and-pop bike clubs ahead of the 1 p.m. confederation meeting.

Guns and other weapons are a common part of biker culture, and the Cossack acknowledged that members of his gang were armed.

“But not all of us,” he said. “We had no reason to believe that this was going to go that way.”

The parley with the Bandidos had been set for 11 a.m., the Cossack said, but the Bandidos didn’t arrive until about 12:15, when about 100 of them pulled up in a long, loud line of Harleys.

Trouble started almost immediately, he said: One of the Bandidos, wearing a patch that identified him as a chapter president, ran his bike into a Cossack standing in the parking lot. The Cossack who was hit was a prospect, a man seeking to become a full member of the club.

“They came up really fast, and the prospect turned and faced the bikes,” the Cossack chapter president said. “He fell backward into other parked bikes. The guy who hit him stopped and got off of his bike and said, ‘What are you doing? Get ... out of my way. We’re trying to park.’”

Cossacks quickly jumped to the prospect’s defense, he said: “Guys were saying, ‘You’re disrespecting us,’ or, ‘We’re not backing down.’ ”

In a blink, it started, he said: “Two punches: One from them, one from us.”

A Bandido with a patch identifying him as sergeant-at-arms of the same chapter threw a punch at Richard Matthew Jordan II, 31, known as “Richie,” who was from Pasadena. Jordan punched back.

“At that point in time, the sergeant-at-arms shot Richie point-blank,” the Cossack said.

Police said Jordan died of a gunshot wound to the head.

“Then all the Bandidos standing in the parking lot started pulling guns and shooting at us,” he said. “There were maybe 60 or 70 of us in the parking lot. ... We took off running. We scattered. Three of our guys went down instantly. They caught a couple more that tripped and fell, and Bandidos were shooting at them.”

He said that the second man to die was Daniel Raymond Boyett, 44, a Cossack known as “Diesel.” Police said that the Waco man died from gunshot wounds to the head.

The third man down was “Dog,” Charles Wayne Russell, 46, of Winona. Russell’s cause of death was listed as a gunshot wound to the chest.

The Cossack said that he believes the Bandidos had no intention of making peace that day.

“It was a setup from start to finish,” he said.

A parking issue

The Cossack’s story has been impossible to verify, but it is largely consistent with what police have said about how the brawl began.

Waco police spokesman Sgt. W. Patrick Swanton said the shooting started in the parking lot with a confrontation over what he called a parking issue. A leader of the Bandidos, who goes by “Gimmi Jimmy,” told The New York Times that there had been no incident in the parking lot but that he had heard there was a fight in the restaurant bathroom. He did not respond to numerous emails.

The Cossack’s account is also consistent with a Twin Peaks security video. The Associated Press reported that the video shows the shooting started in the parking lot at 12:24 p.m., and that panicked bikers started running into the restaurant to flee.

The AP reported that the video shows one shot being fired, but it did not say who fired the shot.

After the bloodshed, Texas authorities warned of the threat of further violence, saying that the Bandidos had called for reinforcements from outside the state.

“History has a way of repeating itself,” Swanton said. “Violence amongst these groups leads to more violence amongst these groups.”

The Cossack said he, too, believes more violence is brewing. He said he received a call late Thursday from a friend in Bandidos leadership, who warned him to get out of his house and spread the word that the Bandidos were “coming hard” after Cossacks.

He said he was told “they’re going to hit houses. They’re going to hit funerals. And if another Cossack or a cop gets in the way, so be it.”

Tim Madigan and Kevin Sullivan,

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The pledge of allegiance was led by Geno.

Roll call of officers was taken and all were present.

The reading of the previous minutes was done by Brian with a motion to accept by Mike, and a 2nd by Dodie.

The treasures report was read by Toni with a Beg balance 4303.19 Rev + 777.94 Expenses 2656.40 End balance 2424.73 A motion to accept was made by Dodie, with a 2nd by Barbara. Glenn mentioned that our balance is the same now as last year at this time. Coming up is our FYAO Run, which, we need volunteers for.

Glenn, reported about the Pac Report Not much to report. Stuff coming up and will be going to State Board meeting next Saturday.

Teasa Reported on membership Listed off all the renewals. Glenn Talked About New membership now at about 250 members.

LeAnne Run Coordinator Feb Board is updated FYAO RUN starts at Darla’s 9am.

VP Mike Talked about safety Discussed riding safe while in the rain, and tips on dealing with dogs.

Glenn Gave a award to Shauna for her great work.

Shauna Reported for the media . The FYAO RUN to be listed in Around Town publication... She will touch base with KUIC radio... The write up for the bailing wire publication is in.

Glenn Texas hold 'em will be 5/14/ 2016. No raffle but doing Silent Auction.

Glenn reported about Charities, the selected Charities were given their money.... Brian, received for Vaca- Fish... Mike received for Crime Stoppers. Glenn for Sarah’s Run... Dee Dee for Mission Solano.

Glenn Let everyone know Our ABATE 17.org website is back up.

Announcements Dee Dee “We need more support at the unification rally”. Get the Women in your life to get their mammograms. Their lives depend upon it.

Shauna American cancer society's relay for life will be in June at Vacaville high.

Junior ABATE & Motorcycle Training Did you know that you can enroll your children in Jr ABATE for only $5.00 per year? By enrolling your children in Jr ABATE you can start them out right learning about protecting their rights. As an added benefit, when your Jr ABATE member gets ready to take the mandated Motorcycle Safety Course, Richard Lester will pay for it! And the course may save your child’s life! Jr ABATE member, Randy Albritton, took the course on January 11th- 12th. Here he is at the January 15th COC meeting receiving a reimbursement check from Richard Lester. For details or to set your child up for reimbursement, contact Gill Mellen at [email protected]