Fw: Don't Let Meg Whitman Get Away With This...

Dear Frank,

Meg Whitman is spreading falsehoods about California's in-home care program.

But you can help set the record straight.

Take Action: Email Your State Representatives

Whitman, the Republican candidate for governor of California, claimed in a recent radio ad that In-Home Supportive Services was one of three public programs in which "there are billions of dollars of fraud," and vowed to empanel a grand jury to investigate these supposed abuses.

She's wrong about the claim -- plain and simple. Review after review of of state and county IHSS programs have found that there exists less-than-1-percent to 2 percent of suspected cases of fraud in the system -- which constitute FAR less than the "billions of dollars" claimed by Whitman.

Take Action: Email Your State Representatives

Of course, any fraud is unacceptable. But so are Whitman's attempts to demonize In-Home Supportive Services on the basis of unproven allegations about fraud in the program.

This is why it's so important that we build an ongoing grassroots movement around in-home care. Because in raising our voices together, we can drown out the falsehoods of those who seek to undermine IHSS.

In-home care is a cost-effective program that saves California billions of dollars by allowing low-income seniors and the disabled to remain safely at home, and out of costly nursing facilities.

Take Action: Email Your State Representatives

Tell Them that IHSS is Efficient, Cost-Effective and Part of the Solution to California's Budget Problems.

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a return of the thanks back to you

Thanks for your reply.

I saw the article in the trib: my, you’re good looking!

I’ll try to attach a poem I wrote last weekend.

Blessings to you and your friends! alan



Pride for prayers they never get to hear

The kindnesses you gave me decades or weeks ago,
I’m treasuring them now. You dear.
Tho I can’t tap out emails, I send thoughts of thanks that you cannot hear.

35 years of treatment, & the old boy still does have the blues.
Today he’s feeling better in his head, wondering what it was the Isley Brothers said.

When you’re down & feel like giving up, it’s the pride.
When you’re sick, maybe on the street, it’s the pride.
It’s the pride that keeps you goin on. It’s the pride.

71 years alive, your children sometimes feel like a weight
you can’t hold.
Yet you cough up what support you can, tho you’re old.
You honor yourself anyway, loving them less than perfectly.
Or you hit the brain stroke
and can only gesture with an eyelid, so much work.
It’s the pride one afternoon makes you go for broke ,
and blink like a child.

When your loved one, and loved ones died it’s the pride.
It’s the pride polishes your memories, inside today,
that carries them tomorrow.
And when your pride evaporates to thin and gone, it’s the pride.
It’s the worth of your love starts you on again, from a hollow emptiness.

Could be before you expire, you’ll give
one last caring gasp of fire.
It will be the pride,
a value for the love of what’s outside you,
still occasionally scraping itself, still popping itself up
from the momentary ego that you were.

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Alan, all i can say to your great poem is EXACTLY!

would you like to be on my email community, THE E-SALON?

In Freedom,
Frank Moore

thanks

for your kind words, Alan. I think Of the fliers as the first ring of a performance. Glad to hear they work!

I am recovering from two months in the hospital. So I don't know when the next performance will be. Keep a lookout!

In Freedom,
Frank Moore

Re: ann cohen

Hi Frankie,


Louise called that very moment :)
Indeed magical!!


Heaps of hugs to everyone,
Paul

Fw: Re: Frank Moore

Contra Costa Times 8/14/10:

"Governor's cuts to In-Home Supportive Services affects East Bay disabled community"

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even when I am recovering, I'm a Media Player, speaking out!

In Freedom,
Frank Moore

Fw: Frank Moore

(Linda wrote:)

Hi Doug,

The article on Sunday in the Contra Costa Times was great!
We love the photos of us!