Kim Abel, former Port Orchard mayor and current League of Women
Voters of Washington Lobby Team Chair, sent this e-mail message out
today:
Dear League Members,
Now more than ever we must stop devastating cuts to education,
healthcare, environmental programs, and services for the most
vulnerable. The future of our state and our economic prosperity
depends on it!
This is one of those times YOU can make a difference by showing
up in Olympia! This Saturday and this Monday your presence is
needed. In light of increasing needs for services and lowered
revenues sources hit by this terrible recession, the League needs
you to make a difference.
First, this Saturday morning, the House Finance committee is
holding a hearing on very important bills to help preserve services
and programs important to the League. The hearing addresses Tim
Eyman’s Initiative 960 (SB 6843 and SB 6130), and a bill that would
close $210 million in tax loopholes, (HB 3176). The hearing is this
Saturday, February 13th, at 9:00a.m. in Hearing Room A in the John
L. O’Brien Building on the Capitol Campus in Olympia. To ensure a
space, please be there by 8:15am. League Lobby Team members will be
there to support planned speakers. You can help them by signing in
to support the bills above and stay to show your support with your
attendance.
Second, whether you can make the Saturday hearing or not, we
need YOU to make a difference by attending the Rally to Protect our
Future on President’s Day, Monday, February 15th. As part of the
Rebuilding Our Economic Future Coalition, the League needs to show
that Washington supports a positive, balanced approach to our state
budget that includes new revenue, not just cuts.
It’s incredibly important to show up at the Capitol for these
two events. It is not our usual phone call or email (although you
can still do that, call your Representatives and share your support
for the bills being heard tomorrow), but in this sound/sight bite
era, it is very important to be present! Please call your League
friends, your co-workers, your neighbors and your relatives and
fill up a vehicle and join us in Olympia.
Thank you for all that you do,
Kim Abel
LWVWA Lobby Team Chair
(360) 874-6774
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Ann Strosnider is communications chair for the League of Women Voters of Kitsap.
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