Thanks for the news (as bad as it is)

Regarding protest strategy, I have come to the
conclusion that the most potent effect will occur by
bringing this type of news to the public through
things like leters to the editor of your local
newspaper. The voting public needs to know what our
elected officials are up to. We then have a shot at
getting current legislative leaders out of office. I'm
going to send senator Bolcom's report to our local
paper which is chronically starved for anything that
passes as news.

Jim Fleming
--- Rebecca Soglin <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> Is there anything we can do at this point to
> protest? Anyone we can write
> besides our district's state senator (Bolkcom is
> ours). Thanks, b.
>
> >This item is excerpted from Senator Joe Bolkcom's
> "Networker" and forwarded
> >by Jane Clark.
> >
> >
> >Environment suffers under budget proposal
> >
> >In the FY02 budget, Republicans cut key clean water
> programs and important
> >recreational programs. Included in these cuts are
> several components of last
> >year's clean water program that are zeroed out
> under the Republican
> >proposal.
> >
> >Many of the cuts will come from the Rebuild Iowa
> Infrastructure Fund (HF
> >742).  This fund deals with vertical infrastructure
> which includes the
> >environmental issues of land acquisition and
> construction and recreational
> >trails.
> >
> >Cuts in environmental programs include:
> >
> >$60,000 from Natural Resources Volunteer Program
> >$500,000 from Water Quality Monitoring
> >$70,000 from Pollutant Discharge Elimination
> >$20,000 from Floodplain Protection
> >$3 million from Recreational Grants
> >$1 million from Recreational Trails
> >Cuts REAP budget to $10 million; $500,000 below
> last year
> >Zeroes out TMDL program ($300,000)
> >
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