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Action Alert: Contact State Senators Now


By Nan Melke - Posted on 07 October 2009

We need to reach out to Senators to ask them to support revenue. Contact your own Senator and the Senators listed below.

  • Please call/email/fax the state senators listed below and express your concern about the urgent threat to education, community health and public safety due to budget cuts. Encourage them to vote to support revenue enhancements; bills with revenue and enhancements have been passed by the state house and are urgently needed to supplement recent cuts;
  • Please be sure to encouraged state senators to show real leadership and work on budget reform going forward to avoid last-minute budget crises in the future;
  • The revenue enhancements being presented are not enough; the remaining shortfall is unacceptable and will hurt our most vulnerable citizens. State senators should be encouraged to continue to work on additional revenue enhancements and not allow bills to be bottlednecked;
  • Please call/email/fax state senate majority leader Mike Bishop and ask him to act promptly on revenue bills and to support and protect Michigan's citizens by assuring the prompt passage of these bills by the senate.

Contact for Mike Bishop (R-Rochester): 12th District Tel (517) 373-2417 Fax (517) 373-2694

Targeted state senators (800 numbers provided where available):

Garcia, Valde Howell 22nd District Tel (517) 373-2420 / 1-800-516-0026 Fax (517) 373-2764

George, Thomas M. Kalamazoo 20th  District Tel (517) 373-0793 / 1-866-305-2120 Fax (517) 373-5607

Jansen, Mark C. Grand Rapids 28th  District Tel (517) 373-0797 Fax (517) 373-5236

Jelinek, Ron Three Oaks 21st  District Tel (517) 373-6960 /1-866-305-2121 Fax (517) 373-0897

Kahn, Roger MD Saginaw 32nd  District Tel (517) 373-1760 / 1-866-305-2132 Fax (517) 373-3487

Kuipers, Wayne Holland 30th  District Tel (517) 373-6920 / 1-877-KUIPERS Fax (517) 373-2751

Pappageorge, John Troy 13th  District Tel (517) 373-2523 Fax (517) 373-5669

Patterson, Bruce Canton 7th  District Tel (517) 373-7350 / 1-866-262-7307 Fax (517) 373-9228

Richardville, Randy Monroe 17th  District Tel (517) 373-3543 Fax (517) 373-0927

  • Please continue write letters to the editor and post to online news outlet forums about the urgent need to pass revenue bills to fund budget shortfalls, as well as a continuing need for long-term budget reform:

     Michigan Liberal

     Blogging for Michigan

     M Live

     Detroit Free Press