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URGENT ACTION ALERT
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No Handouts for GEO Group!!
Tell Senate Appropriations Chair to pull $900,000 appropriation for GEO Group in state budget!
This money was not requested by the Department of Corrections. The Arizona Republic reported
that a lobbyist for GEO Group went directly to Rep. John Kavanagh,
Chair of the House Appropriations Committee to make the request.
The corporation essentially circumvented both the contract negotiation process AND the state agency budgeting process.
Despite
a contentious process in which a group of holdout Republicans were
fighting to secure needed funds for the states broken child welfare
system, Kavanagh handed this corporation $1 million that the Department
of Corrections says it doesn't need.
How many needy Arizona families will go without child care?
How
many CPS cases will go uninvestigated because John Kavanagh cares more
about the interests of GEO Group than about the people of Arizona?
Read The Republic story here |
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YOU CAN STOP THIS
The Senate hears the budget THIS MONDAY, March 31.
Call the Senate
Appropriations Chair Don Shooter and Senate President Andy Biggs and
tell them to pull the plug on Kavanagh's $1 million GEO Group giveaway.
Sen. Don Shooter: (602) 926-4139; dshooter@azleg.gov
Sen. President Andy Biggs: (602) 926-4371; abiggs@azleg.gov
Send emails this weekend, but please call first thing Monday morning.
*Please CC cisaacs@afsc.org
on any emails you send and forward any responses you get (even
automatic ones) so we have an idea of how much impact this action has
had. Thanks!
Program Director
AFSC Arizona
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