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Greetings, A very destructive Tim Eyman initiative is heading to your town and county if it passes the ballot on November 3rd. Eyman's Initiative 1033 puts a straightjacket on state revenue by locking in the nearly $4 billion in reductions to education, health care, parks and libraries, and other cuts the Legislature made during the last session. It's a cookie-cutter, one-size-fits-all approach to government spending. It will impact not only state government but will also become the baseline for all future spending at the city and county levels, too. Things are bad enough. Because of the economy, 40,000 low-income people in Washington lost their health insurance. $1.5 billion has been slashed from education. As many as 3,000 teachers and school employees face layoffs. Faculty have lost their jobs and community and technical college programs have been eliminated at a time our state has had soaring enrollment in two-year colleges because of unemployment.
For the complete text of I-1033: http://www.secstate.wa.gov/elections/initiatives/text/i1033.pdf To help defeat I-1033, contact Richard Burton, AFT Washington Political Organizer, at 206-242-4777 ext. 8085 or rburton@aftwa.org. Times are tough enough already. Let's not make them worse! |
