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Governor, you have a well-deserved reputation
of being a champion for the little guy.
Right now, thousands and thousands of our states most vulnerable citizens
are counting on you to be our champion.
Is that right guys?
He's got to be our champion.
My name is Linda Hanesvery and I do not want them to cut the budget down.
The recession is a recession to the general public.
To the people dealing with special needs, it's a depression by far.
I don't know what to do now.
I live in the group home with Green Creek Terrace, right there.
One in six children now has cognitive delays.
Society shouldn't be putting these people at the mercy of budget cuts.
Hi my name is Brian Richter and I have had the pleasure
of working with Shirly for the last 15 years.
And, she is a really hard worker, and when she has a goal she goes for it.
I've had Brian for 15 years, and I don't want to lose Brian
and I don't want to lose DSC.
Monday of this week we received a letter from the state
indicating that all grant funding was lost for our agency,
which is a 1.7 million dollar loss.
Thousands of people in this state are about to lose services.
What the voters and the taxpayers need to know
is that if they make these cuts the cost is going to be much greater.
The human cost, and financially, we're going to overwhelm emergency rooms,
county jails.
I presented a budget. It didn't have severe cutbacks in our human services.
It did not have that.
In order to avoid those mean spirited type of cuts
what we have to do is we do have to put more revenue into our budget.
I hear legislatiors say that they're outraged,
that they're shocked by all of these cuts.
You know, let them be shocked, let them be outraged.
What I want is action, we need action to fix this mess.
Governor Quinn, words cannot express my personal appreciation
for your coming to Champaign County and more specifically to DSC.
to hear our cries, feel our pain, and witness
the personal devastation we feel for what the state of Illinois
has proposed for human services.
We need you to be our champion.
Please don't cut our budget, we need help.
I don't want to cut the budget. We need the revenue to pay the bills.
We've got to help people.