This is an archive of old Quaker Voice posts.
One of the most important issues confronting our state is the estimated $2.2 Billion budget deficit we face. The legislature must eliminate this deficit by passing a balanced budget by April 24th, 2005. The Revenue Forecast is due out March 17, 2005. Governor Gregoire will release her proposed budget shortly thereafter. It is vital that your elected representatives receive … Read more
ACTION: Call your two Representatives and ask them to vote YES on ESB 6411, without amendments. Call your senator and THANK them for their vote on ESB 6411 (the bill passed the Senate 44-0). You can call the legislative hotline at (800)562-6000, or see the links below for contact information for your legislators. BACKGROUND: … Read more
ACTION: The budgets contain many items of concern to Friends. Please lookthrough this alert and choose the topics of interest to you, thencontact your legislators to share your thoughts on the matter. Youcan call the legislative hotline at (800)562-6000 to leave messagesfor all three of your legislators, or see below for how to getspecific contact … Read more
Please print and share with your Meeting. 1. STOP MEDICAID PREMIUMS Background: Last year, in the face of a $3 billion budget crisis, the Legislature authorized DSHS to charge premiums for children on the Medicaid and SCHIP (State Children’s Health Insurance) Programs. These premiums haven’t started yet, but DSHS has said they could … Read more
One of the issues for which Friends have always had a deep concern isthe question of criminal justice. FCWPP supports rational and humaneapproach to criminal justice, best expressed in a policy statementfrom the Friends Committee on National Legislation: “We urge ourgovernment to work toward a criminal justice system that isrestorative, seeking to return rehabilitated offenders … Read more
Action: Contact your senator, tell them that you are a constituent and that you think SB 6114 is too expensive, extreme and unnecessary, and urge them to oppose it. If you live in the districts of Senators Kline and Thibadeau, send them your thanks for opposing SB 6114 in the Judiciary committee. Background: If you have ever … Read more
As you may recall from past alerts, FCWPP determined in 2001 that the revenue side of our commitment to peace and justice issues deserved attention, particularly in a time of budget crises, when programs that benefited the most vulnerable in our society were under attack, and in last year’s budget, cut. As a result we … Read more
“The Act for Hungry Families,” Senate Bill 6411, will be heard in Olympia by the Senate Children and Family Services and Corrections Committee Friday, January 30, at 8:00 a.m. Washington has the unacceptable distinction of being one of the five hungriest states in America in each of the last eight years. The Act for Hungry Families will mandate lunch … Read more
House Bill 1210, this year’s version of so-called Anti-Terrorism legislation, should not pass out of the House Rules committee. We must encourage Rules committee members by Wednesday, especially Frank Chopp who is the Speaker of the House and the Chair of the committee, NOT TO PASS HB 1210. BACKGROUND: This bill would create six new felonies specific … Read more
Friends: HB 1554 would restore food stamp eligibility to people who served time in prison for a drug conviction but now are clean and sober. Background: The federal government has enacted legislation to deny assistance and benefits to persons convicted of certain drug-related offenses. Under the federal statute an individual convicted of a felony offense involving a controlled … Read more