Political Action Committee Town Hall Speakers, Monday April 27
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Easy Ways to Contact your Legislator:
Email:
This is the easiest way to get in touch with your legislators. The American Federation of Teachers (AFT) has built a dyanamic website that allows you to send an email to your legislator, just by typing in your address. Just go the AFT Get Active Center and you are only a few clicks away from sending a thoughtful email to your representatives.
Telephone:
It takes a little bit more time, but the effect is meaningful.
Current Talking Points:
Education:
- Quality education at all levels - from preschool to University - will stimulate the economic turn-around we need in this state.
- In order to fully fund the education budgets we must raise taxes and fix the structural budget deficit permanently.
- If we don't fund education to the 2008-09 level we are looking at 10,000 - 15,000 lost jobs this year and next.
- All financial aid, not just Promise Grants, but programs like work-study which help students pay for college have been gutted.
- If this budget stands we will offer financial aid at the same rate as Mississippi and Puerto Rico.
Dillon Healthcare
- I oppose the Michigan Health Benefits Program Act, H.B. 5345.
- I am a public employee and a union member. As insurance costs have risen we have worked hard to keep costs down and maintain good benefits.
- We have done that through collective bargaining. By taking away the ability to collective bargain our health benefits you are taking away our ability to design health insurance that best fits our local group, and that takes into account the times we have given up raises in exchange for keeping good benefits.
- There is no need to rush this bill.
- There are too many unanswered questions and numbers that just don't add up.
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