ABATE of Florida's Doc
Reichenbach To all who have asked re: Doc Reichenbach and Sport Bikers
Recently a number of people have contacted me asking about the President/Lobbyist of ABATE of Florida's, Doc
Reichenbach's, statement, made, during the battle over the Florida Legislatures attempt to pass legislation
allowing the state to sieze motorcycles that the motorcyclists (sport-bikers) depicted in a film were, “not
bikers.”
My apologies for being late in responding. I have had some medical problems as a result of an MC crash.
I was present at the meeting in question and heard him make the comment. He later tried to clarify the
statement by stating he was referring only to the persons in the film who were breaking the law. He was
also quoted making the following statement to the Miami Herald News,
"'I don't consider those people
bikers,'' said James ''Doc'' Reichenbach , president of ABATE of
Florida. ``Every time someone is killed or there is a major accident, law-abiding bikers get categorized. I would
call those thrill-seekers, and if they break the law we agree that they should pay a
penalty.''"
as posted on Bruce and RC's motorcycle forum here: http://pub42.bravenet.com/forum/static/show.php?usernum=3562429698&frmid=48&msgid=971141&cmd=show
However as those of us who were involved in the fight against this egregious legislation are
aware, many of his statements were disingenuous and did not match his actual actions. If you will remember it was
the ABATE President/lobbyist that put out emails that the bill “hb137” was dead, stop writing your
legislators (10-12-07 wherein the ABATE of Florida legislative representative offererd what could be construed as
a positive statement re: the sponsor of the bill Lopez-Canterra,
“ Know that the sponsor is new to the legislature and is generally an ABATE supporter, but he is trying to crack
down on the flyboy/flygirl stunt riders or anyone racing around and riding wheelie.”
http://www.bigbendbikersforfreedom.com/2007/10/continuing-questions-reabate-of.html
) and that he was not working with the Bills sponsor Representative Lopez-Canterra. This despite an aide in his
office telling us over the phone that Doc Reichenbach was working with Canterra and our posting of a letter from
Canterra validating that the ABATE President/lobbyist was doing so, see: http://www.bigbendbikersforfreedom.com/2007/11/one-letter-from-politician-cantera-one.htm
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As we all know HB 137 turned into a nightmare of a bill that would impact all of us who ride that we first warned
about on our site here on 9-27-07 here:http://www.bigbendbikersforfreedom.com/2007/09/sport-bikers-and-rest-of-us-beware.html
and that Lopez-Canterras had personal reasons for introducing the bill that had nothing to do
with motorcycle safety as we posted here: http://www.bigbendbikersforfreedom.com/2008/11/florida-representative-lopez-cantera.html
Dara Mclain and I attended a number of committee meetings at the Florida State Capital to
speak out against this legislation, as we did to speak out against it's eventual permutation into SB1992, both of
which were supported by the ABATE lobbyist, James D. Reichenbach.
The request for this info came along with notification, followed by a press release that the ABATE lobbyist would
be presenting at the 7th Annual PRO (Public Relations Officers) Convention and
Bikers Empowerment Training Conference http://www.betconference.com/.
The Press release would be funny were it not so sad that enough people have taken what is
contained therein as truth without doing the research. For example:
“Some topics of Doc's address may include ABATE of Florida 's many legislative successes over its almost
30 year history, including the long battle and resulting success repealing Florida 's Helmet Law in 2001.”
This, along with a number of other bogus claims, is far from the “REAL” truth which reading this post will plainly
reveal: http://www.bigbendbikersforfreedom.com/2009/04/wctv-helps-abate-of-florida-lobbyist.html
In a time of 2 minute sound byte news and increasing government intrusion in our lives
it should be incumbent upon all of us to learn the truth of our history if we are to have any hope at saving
ourselves from those who would oppress us and the charlatans that would profit off us.
More can be found at
http://blogsearch.google.com/blogsearch?oe=utf8&ie=UTF-8&safe=active&hl=en&q=HB137+blogurl:http://www.bigbendbikersforfreedom.com/&sa=N&start=0
or
http://tiny.cc/d1ZpQ
or by searching the archives of Bruce and rc's biker forum,
http://pub42.bravenet.com/forum/static/show.php?usernum=3562429698&frmid=48
which contain over 400 postings on the topic, resulting in Bruce Arnold having his ABATE life
membership revoked in violation of ABATE of Florida by-laws.
This mail out will be posted at Big Bend Bikers For Freedom and Bruce and Rays Biker Forum along with some e-mails
that this writer has been in possession of that will further demonstrate how the lobbyist of ABATE of Florida's
actions have resulted in many BOD members.
This information is free to distribute with the appropriate accreditation.
rc
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rc
Let Freedom Reign
http://bigbendbikersforfreedom.com/
The
following is an answer in response to a press release that ABATE of florida sent out about
Doc.
I received this from
Rogue who is a true advocate for motorcyclist not a charlatain like Reichenbach.
It would be appreciated if you could speard the word about Reichenbach's lack of success in the Florida legislature
and show that he is riding on and claiming to have been the force behind the helmet law.
On several occasions Reichenbach has been asked to explain exactly what "success" ABATE of Florida, Inc. has
made. As usual there is no response, why? Because there has been no success.
He has sold us down the river on several issues and lied to the very members that pay his outrageous salary.
Remember HB139? Remember the handle bar height? we didn't have any restrictions before ABATE of Florida, Inc.,
became involved.
Have you renewed your Red-White-Blue tag? None of that money goes to injured motorcyclists-Thanks Reichenbach.
Have you renewed any of your licenses or tags? Have they increased? Thanks Reichenbach, for bringing this to our
attention....NOT!
He has lied so much, I do believe he actually believes himself.
Don't let this parasite ruin what is left of Florida motorcyclists, we have so few rights left that if
Reichenbach is left in his current position and you do NOTHING you have no one but yourself to blame.
Do your research-do not endorse someone without having researched their successes or failures.
Don't do this for me-Do it for yourself.
Diana
Ride Free
Here are some sites to read:
http://www.bigbendbikersforfreedom.com/2009/10/abate-of-florida-what-hellwhat-we-have.html
http://www.bigbendbikersforfreedom.com/2009/08/abate-calls-us-liars-and-cowards-and.html
http://www.bigbendbikersforfreedom.com/2009/07/is-abate-of-florida-credibility-being.html
http://www.bigbendbikersforfreedom.com/2009/03/abate-of-florida-continues-to-feed.html
http://www.bigbendbikersforfreedom.com/2009/02/another-abate-of-florida-e-mail-finds.html
Rogue
Sturgis Freedom
Fighters
Motorcycle Hall Of Fame
Member 2005
www.bikerrogue.com
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