Please make a call if you can!!!! Every call counts!!!!

Please read this message from NYUST Vice President Andy Pallotta about the pending tax cap legislation.   I received it just now via email, and I would like to get it out there ASAP.   Please make a call if you can. 
 

                                                                            M E M O R A N D U M

From: Andrew Pallotta 
To: NYSUT Board of Directors
Local Presidents
PAC members
Vote/Cope Coordinators

Date: June 15, 2011 

Re: Continuing the Anti-Tax Cap Pressure  

 

We are in the final days of this year’s legislative session and we need  your continued advocacy against tax caps now if we are to prevail in this  historic battle. We urge each and every one of you to pick up a phone and  call your lawmaker to voice your opposition to tax caps TODAY. Please call  1 877 255 9417 today to keep the pressure on. Please pass this request  along to your general membership a.s.a.p.
 Our members have been responding to our calls for action. In the past two > weeks, over 11,500 faxes against the tax cap have been sent to Senators,  Assembly members and to the Governor. In addition, over 7,500 calls were  placed through the AFL-CIO Hotline. We have robo-called over 500,000 of  our members on the issue, and sent email blasts to 160,000 members  including a special email to 20,000 of our retiree activists. We have  spent well over $1.7 million on television, radio and web-based media in  the past month.

We have initiated the use of “patch through calls,” a system where a  member receives a live call from us, is read a script about the tax caps  and is then asked to be connected with their lawmaker to register their  opposition to the cap. In 3 days last week over 10,000 NYSUT members  connected with their legislators. This week, over the course of two days, over 10,000 more NYSUT members reached state senators. We are redoubling  our efforts and targeting 90 more members of the legislature between now  and the end of session, which could come as early as Friday.

Do not delay. The imposition of tax caps will redefine public education as  we know it for years to come. We will be locked into a decade of program  cuts, layoffs, cost shifts and contract concessions.

Please call 1 877 255 9417 and urge all of your members to do the same  now!

cc:
NYSUT Officers
NYSUT Cabinet
Regional Staff Directors
Legislation Staff

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