Action Updates from the HHS Network!
Statewide Call-In Week Starting Monday, February 14th
This week, the Assembly and Senate Budget Subcommittees will wrap up their hearings, after which Governor Brown’s proposed budget will move on to the full Budget Committee where a number of important decisions will be made.
At this critical juncture in the budget process, it’s absolutely necessary that we keep the pressure on and let our Democratic leaders know that they can and must find less dangerous alternatives to the worst of the Governor’s cuts to health care and social services programs! For example, the legislature could save hundreds of millions of dollars by cutting California’s prison budget, which the Governor’s proposal leaves untouched!
That’s why we need your help!
The HHS Network is organizing a statewide call-in week beginning MONDAY, February 14 in advance of the first meeting of the Budget Conference Committee – scheduled to take place on Friday Feb. 18!
The Network is seeking partners and allies who can help generate calls to legislators to share with them just how serious these cuts are, and urge them to find alternative solutions to mitigate the worst of the proposed cuts, especially those that will make children homeless and cause seniors and the chronically ill to die.
If your organization can pledge to make 10, 20 or 100 calls the week of February 14 – 18, let us know!
Click here and tell us how many calls your organization can generate!
Help us Mobilize at the Capitol on Feb. 22nd!
These cuts are not only bad for California’s economic recovery – costing the state thousands of public & private sector jobs and billions in Federal matching dollars – but will cause horrific impact on our seniors, disabled, and children.
Simply put – if California doesn’t find alternative solutions to mitigate the worst of the cuts – then it’s our most vulnerable people who will bear the heaviest burden of all. The severity of these cuts cannot be underestimated. Jean Ross of the California Budget Project – a person greatly respected for her sober budget analyses and not one to exaggerate — has said publicly that children will become homeless and people will die.
That’s why the HHS Network will be organizing a rally at the Capitol on TUESDAY, February 22 and we want you to join us!
We’ll be rallying at the Capitol to demonstrate to state leaders just how dangerous some of these cuts would be, and asking them to find alternative solutions to help balance the state budget without making cuts that will lead to homelessness and death!
More details will come as soon as they’re available, but if you’d like to get involved, please contact an HHS Network Field Organizer TODAY!
Please contact:
Jessica Rothhaar – jessicar@health-access.org – 510-873-8787 ext 107
Astrid Campos – acampos@communitychange.org – 213-407-5840
Show Your Support – Donate to Mobilize More for our Next Capitol Action!
As you know, the HHS Network and its partners & allies are planning a major action in the Capitol on TUESDAY, February 22. But we need help!
HHS advocates from all across the state are anxious to take part and show their support for a Family Recovery Budget – one that doesn’t include dangerous and life-threatening cuts to essential health care and social services!
But we need your help! Low income seniors and families cannot afford to travel to the Capitol.
Please donate $5, $15, $25 or $50, by clicking here!
Your donation will go directly to transportation to bring hundreds of people to the Capitol for our next big action!
Be sure to check for upcoming e-mails with more details and information – and also check out the HHS Network Action Center for additional info on what you can do to help support California families, seniors, people with disabilities and children against these devastating cuts!
