 "We’re trying to convey to them that with these cuts, it’s not only affecting middle-class or low-income families. It affects everybody. When you cut funding to emergency rooms, to tuberculosis prevention programs, it impacts everybody."
- Charisse Feldman, PHN
Santa Clara County |
 "We told them not to balance the budget on the health of Californians."
-Carmen Cruise, RN
Kern Medical Center |
 "It starts with us, the preventive healthcare nurses. It's when we don't catch it that it goes to the hospital level and then long-term care."
- Abigail Romo, PHN
Kern County Dept. of Public Health |
 "I realize why it is so important to go in person to see the legislators. To many of the representatives, SEIU is just another lobbyist putting pressure on them to do or not do something. Each of the five representatives I spoke with thanked me for making the trip to see them. Now I see more of what SEIU does."
- Terry Martin, PHN
Santa Clara County |