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Stand
With us at the State House Next Wednesday Morning for
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This
is from our friends and partners at the Maine Can Do Better
Campaign. We'll be joining them to show solidarity next
Wednesday for a rally to oppose Governor LePage's proposed DHHS
Supplemental Budget.
From
MCDB:
Just
six months into his first budget, Governor LePage and his
administration have already mismanaged the Department of Health and
Human Services.
Yesterday, the Governor released the details of an unprecedentedly
reckless series of proposed cuts that would harm hundreds of
thousands of Mainers. The cuts target the elderly, the poor, people
with disabilities, and children. The cuts undermine effective
anti-poverty efforts and take health insurance away from more than
60,000 people while denying tens of thousands more the support they
need.
It's clear that the Governor and his administration don't understand
how the department works - even when they released their plans they
couldn't explain their numbers - or the impacts of the proposals on
every community in Maine.
Next week, the Legislature will hold public hearings on this attack
on Maine's working families. Maine Can Do Better and its partner
organizations are holding a rally and press conference next Wednesday
and we need you there to help us fight back against this dangerous
and extreme plan that would devastate working families, kill
thousands of jobs, and put our state's economy at risk.
Please join us in Augusta at the State House Hall
of Flags next Wednesday, December 14th at 10 AM.
For more information on the Governor's proposed cuts to the
Department of Health and Human Services, here are a couple links news
stories from this morning's papers:
http://bangordailynews.com/2011/12/06/politics/65000-mainecare-recipients-to-lose-health-coverage-under-lepage-plan/
http://www.sunjournal.com/news/state/2011/12/06/it-will-have-real-impact-lepage-announces-sweeping-changes-mainecare/1124615
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