You’re Taking the Shirts Off Our Backs Rally in Riverside
Great turnout at today’s budget protest outside the Governor’s office on Main Street in Riverside! Spearheaded by Julie Williams of Rolling Start, and attended by dozens of residents and community leaders from around the Inland Empire, the protest called on Governor Schwarzenegger and Riverside Senators Dutton (R-Inland Empire) & Hollingsworth (R-Murrieta) to support targeted revenue solutions to prevent life-threatening cuts to health care and human services. Revenue solutions championed by the coalition include the oil severance tax and rollback of corporate tax breaks, both of which are part of the Perez-Steinberg budget proposal but have been criticized as irresponsible job killers by Dutton and Hollingsworth.
Health Access’ Southern California Regional Organizer, Nancy Gomez, reports from the scene: “We just had a passing car throw a glass bottle at a person in a wheelchair. We have a luxury spa complaining that we are “ruining the experience” for their clients who are “seekers of refinery, luxury and beauty,” according to their tagline.”
If you live in the Inland Empire, call, write & drop by the offices of Riverside Senators Dutton & Hollingsworth to ask them which is more irresponsible and job-killing: slashing health & human services or slightly reducing corporate profits?
