The end of session and processing the budget cuts As many of you noticed our legislators managed to pass a budget deal and wrap up the legislative session before Memorial Day. For this Together Tuesday Update we are definitely all together in our disappointment with the budget deal and concerned about what cuts agencies have under […]
Monthly Archives: May 2015
Together Tuesday Update: Forgotten Fourteen Winner and Budget Talking Points
The State Budget Response We expect a state budget agreement to be announced by our state legislature very soon. Are you ready to contact your legislators with your response to their proposal? If the budget deal suggests more cuts to state agencies that have suffered through cuts for many years, and we expect it will, how […]
Together Tuesday Update: Questions you can answer and who’s going to win.
Do the people who represent you have questions you can answer? When I helped deliver your sign-on-letter to Halt the Tax Cut , at the Capitol last Tuesday many of the legislators asked me three questions: “I agree with you but what can I do if most of my colleagues don’t get it?” “Isn’t Halting […]
Together Tuesdays Update: An early lead in the Forgotten Fourteen Contest and Who can you tell?
There are campaigns to lobby legislators with big money and special interests behind them. This isn’t one of those campaigns. This is about you! Halting the Tax Cut to save our state funding is about people, organizations, and businesses like you and yours spreading the information by word of mouth. YOU realize that Oklahoma’s schools, […]
