district09@senate.virginia.gov to me
show details 12:32 PM (11 hours ago)
Dear Ms. McGuinn,
Thanks for contacting me regarding the proposed educational budget cuts. Please know I share your concerns. Public education is the backbone of a strong vibrant democracy. Moreover, our children deserve every opportunity to succeed and to better themselves. I will continue to fight for educational funding and against the change to the composite index.
Thanks gain for contacting me. Please know that my door is always open and I am always eager to hear from constituents.
Sincerely,
A. Donald McEachin
Saturday, February 20, 2010
Thursday, February 18, 2010
Major Budget Cuts for Schools and Healthcare in Virginia
Our Governor, whom I did vote for and support, has made his budget cut proposal and of course the top two major cuts will fall within our schools and health care. How is that even fair. I mean our children our the future and if we continue to shove them in overcrowded classrooms the less they will learn and the higher the drop out rate. How will our future look if our future leaders are drop outs and uneducated. Or die because their parents can not afford health care for them and due to budget cuts there is no Famis for them to receive and if they have a major issue their parents will not be able to afford to pay hospital bills. And mental health patients need help not to be roaming with no meds to help their condition and who knows what will happen. People rely on free clinics they rely on their children to get good educations and it is all going down hill. This is a letter that I wrote to the Governor and I will write one to my delegate and congressman and anyone else that I can write to, in order to get it through that we want NO MAJOR BUDGET CUTS FOR SCHOOLS AND HEALTH CARE.....If you are a Virginia I would encourage you to do the same thing.
Dear Mr. McDonnell,
I am a Virginia resident whom voted for and support you. I stand behind my decision in voting for you, however I am quite concerned with your recent budget cuts proposal. I do understand that you have promised to not raise taxes, and I do appreciate that. On the other hand, why is it that our schools and health care is always the ones that get the most cuts. There has to be other areas in which major cuts can come from. See the issue that I have is this, my daughter, my pride and joy, was born at 24 weeks, she is now 7 years old and in school. She is in a full time special needs class with 11 other students. She needs a lot of one on one attention to learn and to me having 12 special needs students in one class is to many, with continued budget cuts for schools then how will they be able to afford more special needs classes in order to lower the number of students in these classes. Teachers are under paid as it is and with even more budget cuts for the school systems means that they will have to lay teachers off, something that we do not need, because we do not need to have more unemployed. I am concerned that special needs classes will be among the hardest hit areas within school systems thus meaning more in classes and less help for these students with special needs. I am disheartened to even feel that my child may not get the help she needs to learn because of budget cuts for schools. Also my oldest child is insured through medicaid and my youngest through Famis and I am concerned that health care budget cuts may interfere with their insurance. My husband and I can not afford to put them on his insurance due to him being the only one whom works and we have a mortgage and other necessary bills that have sadly increased. I am a proud Virginian but cuts to these areas must stop. I would also like to know where the money from lottery goes. I was always under the impression that all proceeds went to the schools, if this is the case then why do schools always lose out?
Thank you for taking the time to address my concerns. I hope that as a father you will understand my concerns and realize that the best way to help this state is to insure that school systems and health care equally have no more major budget cuts. Our children our the future and if we don't teach them the right way now then what will that mean for our future.
Sincerely,
Leslie McGuinn
Proud Virginian and Proud McDonnell Supporter
To send an email to the Governor visit this site: http://www.governor.virginia.gov/TheAdministration/contactGovernor.cfm
I have emailed both my Delegate and Senator to find and email yours please visit this site:
http://conview.state.va.us/whosmy.nsf/main?openform
Dear Mr. McDonnell,
I am a Virginia resident whom voted for and support you. I stand behind my decision in voting for you, however I am quite concerned with your recent budget cuts proposal. I do understand that you have promised to not raise taxes, and I do appreciate that. On the other hand, why is it that our schools and health care is always the ones that get the most cuts. There has to be other areas in which major cuts can come from. See the issue that I have is this, my daughter, my pride and joy, was born at 24 weeks, she is now 7 years old and in school. She is in a full time special needs class with 11 other students. She needs a lot of one on one attention to learn and to me having 12 special needs students in one class is to many, with continued budget cuts for schools then how will they be able to afford more special needs classes in order to lower the number of students in these classes. Teachers are under paid as it is and with even more budget cuts for the school systems means that they will have to lay teachers off, something that we do not need, because we do not need to have more unemployed. I am concerned that special needs classes will be among the hardest hit areas within school systems thus meaning more in classes and less help for these students with special needs. I am disheartened to even feel that my child may not get the help she needs to learn because of budget cuts for schools. Also my oldest child is insured through medicaid and my youngest through Famis and I am concerned that health care budget cuts may interfere with their insurance. My husband and I can not afford to put them on his insurance due to him being the only one whom works and we have a mortgage and other necessary bills that have sadly increased. I am a proud Virginian but cuts to these areas must stop. I would also like to know where the money from lottery goes. I was always under the impression that all proceeds went to the schools, if this is the case then why do schools always lose out?
Thank you for taking the time to address my concerns. I hope that as a father you will understand my concerns and realize that the best way to help this state is to insure that school systems and health care equally have no more major budget cuts. Our children our the future and if we don't teach them the right way now then what will that mean for our future.
Sincerely,
Leslie McGuinn
Proud Virginian and Proud McDonnell Supporter
To send an email to the Governor visit this site: http://www.governor.virginia.gov/TheAdministration/contactGovernor.cfm
I have emailed both my Delegate and Senator to find and email yours please visit this site:
http://conview.state.va.us/whosmy.nsf/main?openform
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Hi
Just a quick post about my other blog if you are interested in checking it out:
http://thehumorinchildrearing.blogspot.com/
http://thehumorinchildrearing.blogspot.com/
Saturday, February 6, 2010
Will need tissues
Such a great read, but warning you will need tissues for this one.
http://enjoyingthesmallthings.blogspot.com/2010/01/nella-cordelia-birth-story.html
http://enjoyingthesmallthings.blogspot.com/2010/01/nella-cordelia-birth-story.html
Monday, February 1, 2010
Haiti
Last week I had posted a status message on my facebook page saying:
"Shame on you America! The US has homeless without shelter, children going to bed without eating, elderly going without needed meds, and mentally ill without treatment - and yet we have a benefit for the people of Haiti on 12 TV stations raising over $57 million! 99% of people won't have the guts to copy and repost this. I agree- help our own first"
Some people I guess read it wrong or just took it the wrong way. I NEVER said that we should not help Haiti, never once. Believe me if I had the money I would have been one of the first to have donated to the country. My whole point behind it was not to say do not help Haiti, as Lord knows they need all the help they can get. But to simply say that we need to help our own people, the homeless we have here, the orphans we have here, the people that need meds and can't get it here and ect. I mean our country has so many people that need help and can not get it and yet here we are having had a benefit concert on every local channel commercial free, but you NEVER EVER see anything like that to help the people of America that need help.
I am in no way saying NOT to help Haiti if you can. But Please also help our own people that need help too.
BTW I just got the same statement in a text message and because of all the Shit I go from posting what I believed in I did not forward it even though I feel the message is straight forward and is 100% what I feel.
We complain about our country, we complain about the homeless on the streets making our cities look bad, no one ever thinks about the kids in orphanages that people do not want to adopt because they are to old when they want babies, we have foster kids that go from place to place. We have people with health problems that need medications and insurance that can not get either for whatever reason. And yet we stand around and do nothing to help them, infact we complain about what a strain on society they are, when we could be helping them. If we had a benefit concert for them do you think it would be on all local channels and commercial free? NO! Do you think we would raise the money that was raised for Haiti? NO!
People you can help other countries, but don't turn your back on America and those that need help here!!!
"Shame on you America! The US has homeless without shelter, children going to bed without eating, elderly going without needed meds, and mentally ill without treatment - and yet we have a benefit for the people of Haiti on 12 TV stations raising over $57 million! 99% of people won't have the guts to copy and repost this. I agree- help our own first"
Some people I guess read it wrong or just took it the wrong way. I NEVER said that we should not help Haiti, never once. Believe me if I had the money I would have been one of the first to have donated to the country. My whole point behind it was not to say do not help Haiti, as Lord knows they need all the help they can get. But to simply say that we need to help our own people, the homeless we have here, the orphans we have here, the people that need meds and can't get it here and ect. I mean our country has so many people that need help and can not get it and yet here we are having had a benefit concert on every local channel commercial free, but you NEVER EVER see anything like that to help the people of America that need help.
I am in no way saying NOT to help Haiti if you can. But Please also help our own people that need help too.
BTW I just got the same statement in a text message and because of all the Shit I go from posting what I believed in I did not forward it even though I feel the message is straight forward and is 100% what I feel.
We complain about our country, we complain about the homeless on the streets making our cities look bad, no one ever thinks about the kids in orphanages that people do not want to adopt because they are to old when they want babies, we have foster kids that go from place to place. We have people with health problems that need medications and insurance that can not get either for whatever reason. And yet we stand around and do nothing to help them, infact we complain about what a strain on society they are, when we could be helping them. If we had a benefit concert for them do you think it would be on all local channels and commercial free? NO! Do you think we would raise the money that was raised for Haiti? NO!
People you can help other countries, but don't turn your back on America and those that need help here!!!
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