CALL NOW TO SAVE COMMUNITY-BASED SERVICES!!!

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CALL

NOW TO SAVE COMMUNITY-BASED SERVICES

Adapt and CN! are at Gov. Rick 's office

and home fighting for our freedom.

The message – We Demand:

1. Use the entire rainy day fund

2. Restore community services at the current levels of services which includes

keeping community attendant wages at the current level

3. Do not allow anybody to be institutionalized in a nursing home or state

supported living center due to budget cuts.

Telephone

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252-9600

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Texas and out-of-state

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From: txpacs [mailto:txpacs ] On Behalf Of bob.adapt@...

Sent: Monday, May 23, 2011 3:13 PM

To: Bob Kafka. sbc

Subject: [txpacs] ADAPT of Texas

Protests Governor -- Press Release [1 Attachment]

Sent via

BlackBerry by AT & T

From: " ADAPT

adapt@... "

Date: Sun, 22 May

2011 17:56:35 -0500

To: Bob

Kafka

Subject: ADAPT of Texas Protests Governor

-- Press Release

*****PRESS

RELEASE*****

FOR IMMEDIATE

RELEASE

May 23, 2011 – 3pm

For

information:

Wittie 512

577-8982

McPhail 512 627-5869

Bob

Kafka

512 431-4085

SUBJECT:

Protest at Governor ’s Office and Home

Disability Rights activists say – “Use the Rainy Day Fund –

Our Homes NOT Institutions”

ADAPT of Texas,

a statewide disability rights organization, and other disability rights

advocates are now protesting at Governor ’s Public Reception Room on the 2nd

floor of the State Capitol and at his $120,000 a year rental home located at 8113 Hickory Creek Drive.

“We are here

today to say to Governor that his threat to veto any bill that uses any

of the Rainy Day Fund has resulted in a budget bill that, in addition to

harming public school kids, will harm people with disabilities of all ages and

will ruin the delivery system of community-based services and supports” said

Wittie an Organizer for ADAPT of Texas. “Before he signs this bill we

want him to use the entire Rainy Day Fund, restore community services to their

current level and to assure that no Texans with disabilities will be forced

into a nursing home or State

Supported Living Center

because of inadequate funding for community-based attendant services and

supports.”

“All session my

basic services that I rely on to be able to participate in the community have

been threatened. Today I still don’t know if my community-based attendant

services will be cut or eliminated. Friends of mine on programs like the

Community-Based Alternative (CBA), CLASS, Client-Managed Personal Attendant

Services (CMPAS), In-Home and Family Support (IHFS), Medically Dependent

Children’s Program (MDCP) and HCS also fear their services will be reduced”

said

McPhail

an Organizer for ADAPT of Texas.

“The wages and

benefits for Texas attendants are

so low in this budget bill that we won’t keep people or attract new people to

these critical jobs – jobs that allow people with disabilities and seniors to

live in the community with dignity” said Francisca Grajeda PACT/Desert ADAPT

Organizer from El Paso.

“And don’t forget

about the over 100,000 people with disabilities of all ages waiting on lists

for Medicaid waiver services who now will wait for at least two more

years. In fact their numbers will grow because of Governor not

wanting to use the Rainy Day Fund” said Josue Rodriquez Desert ADAPT Organizer

from El Paso.

“Maybe inside his gated mansion it isn’t raining, but it’s raining out here.”

The End

“If you are going through hell, keep going.” Winston

Churchill