It's Time  to  Say Thank You!

It's official! In the budget passed by the state legislature on 7/24/2004 (Senate Bill 3340, House Amendment 1) -- which Governor Blagojevich signed on 7/30/2004, the following amounts are designated for supportive housing:

    And if you’ve already sent your thank you letters - thank you!
For those of you who have yet to send the letters, don't worry, just go ahead and do it! It took the legislators a while to pass the budget. They will understand if it took you a while to thank them.
They will remember if you thank them, though, so it is important to do that.

Sample Thank You Letters may be downloaded here. At the very least, send thank you letters to your state legislators, senators and representatives. Then, it would be great if you could thank Representatives Feigenholtz and Hamos, our strong champions, and the Governor, who put the money in the budget in the first place, and the four leaders, who kept it in the budget.

  Our absolutely heroic champions:  
                  Rep. Sara Feigenholtz and Rep. Julie Hamos
      They really went way out their on that limb for us!

  Governor Blagojevich, who kept his word and put it in the budget and kept it in the budget

      The four leaders, Senate President Emil Jones, Senate Republican Leader Frank Watson, Speaker Michael Madigan, and House Republican Leader Tom Cross.

Sample letters are provided to make this as easy as possible. It's very important to take this final step in the process because --