Town Hall Meetings on Revenue this Saturday

Washington State legislators will hold Town Meetings this Saturday, February 20, to get citizen input about revenue issues and the state services for which they are needed.  Legislators from across the state are taking time off from the session to hold these meetings in their home districts.  For the town hall meeting in your district, go to:Washington State legislators will hold Town Meetings this Saturday, February 20, to get citizen input about revenue issues and the state services for which they are needed.  Legislators from across the state are taking time off from the session to hold these meetings in their home districts.  For the town hall meeting in your district, go to:We know that the budget will be the main topic of these gatherings.  We also know that the anti-tax, anti-government voices will be there insisting that social service programs be slashed even further instead of the legislature identifying new revenue sources.  We NEED you to be there with an alternative message.  Our legislators must not sacrifice care for the poor, sick and elderly, education for our youth and protections for our environment.  We must encourage them to uplift the common good.It is essential that people of faith be there offering a prophetic voice and moral persuasion.  We must continue to cut through the rhetoric and statistics to put a human face on the real impact of recent and proposed budget cuts. I hope you will attend and tell your story as a faithful citizen of Washington State who believes in the promise of democratic government and its potential for good.  We are continuing the effort to encourage the legislature to deal with the severe budget shortfall by identifying additional revenue, by balancing cuts with revenue.We need our legislators to return to Olympia with one clear message in mind: we can’t cut our way out of this deficit. We must not once again ‘balance’ the budget on the backs of children and our most vulnerable residents.