Fwd: Developmental Disabilities Press Conference - Thursday, April 19, 2007

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DD BUDGET CUTS PRESS CONFERENCE THURSDAY!

This week the Florida

Legislature’s House of Representatives and Senate passed their budgets

which will result in the loss of services for thousands of individuals with

developmental disabilities by forcing them to lower service options without

regards to their individual needs.

IT’S TIME FOR ACTION! A “RAINY DAY” PRESS CONFERENCE

…

Thursday,

April 19th at 11:45 AM at the State Capitol Senate Portico.

WE NEED YOU! Individuals with developmental disabilities,

families and advocates need to come to Tallahassee

for the press conference and to talk with the legislators about how the loss of

services will affect you and your family.

Bring your umbrella to let the

legislature see that it’s a “Rainy Day!”

Press Conference

Messages:

People with developmental disabilities are facing a catastrophic

storm of circumstances.

A gaping budget deficit and proposed cuts to critical and vital

services are creating the worst possible scenario for some of the

state’s most vulnerable citizens.

To avert this crisis, Governor Crist, Senators and Representatives

are being asked to use at least $75 million of Rainy Day funds

to keep our developmental disabilities services in place and to avoid

disaster in the lives of people with developmental disabilities and their

families.

IF YOU CAN’T COME TO TALLAHASSEE

…

PLEASE

email and/or telephone:

· President

of the Senate Ken Pruitt pruitt.ken.web@...,

· Speaker

of the House Marco Rubio, marco.rubio@myfloridahousegov

· Florida

Governor Charlie Crist, charlie.crist@...

The

Message:

Please provide at least $75 million

from the state’s rainy day fund to cover the deficit and give APD more

time to correctly fix past management issues.

If you would also like to

send an email with your local legislators or contact them all at once, their

email addresses are in the MS Word Documents:

House of Representatives Members Email Addresses

Senate

Members Email Addresses

THANK

YOU FOR GETTING INVOLVED IN THIS CRITICAL EFFORT!

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would like to be removed from our email list, please send an email to: jamunoz@...

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