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Why
Contact your Legislators?
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Photos of RTAC members meeting with their legislators are here.
A summary of the materials
presented at a NRTA Conference including 'talking points'
and other suggestions is here.
A QUOTE TO THINK ABOUT:
“Too many people think of government as
an entity that is out there and does things to
or for us. Government
ought to be of us, a tool that the
people use to do collectively what they cannot do alone.”—Lobbying
Even more than for most folks —
POLITICS
·
POLITICIANS
control the laws that penalize
your Social Security if you are or were
a teacher, a firefighter, a police officer or other
state or local employee.
·
POLITICIANS
shaped the laws that cut your Healthcare Insurance rebate recently.
·
POLITICIANS
responded when you demanded that they restore that rebate.
·
POLITICIANS
introduced bills in Congress to
REPEAL THE PENALTIES on your Social Security.
·
POLITICIANS
signed onto those bills as
co-sponsors, and then KEPT
THE BILLS LOCKED UP IN COMMITTEE for a year.
·
POLITICIANS,
including many of the
co-sponsors, refused to vote the bills out of committee.
POLITICIANS
determine your life!
Join RTAC’s e-mail
alert network,
a group of people dedicated to the vital task of letting
legislators know that:
Retired Chicago public employees still exist and
function; and
Our needs must not be ignored just because our
public service has ended!
Join RTAC’s e-mail
alert network and let your wishes be known!
YOU
HAVE TO BE AN RTAC MEMBER to join!!
1.
Just click on Editor;
2.
Write “RTAC Alert” in the “Subject” line; and
3.
Give your name and zip code.
Only about one retired
Chicago Public School teacher in 35 cares
enough to promise to ask legislators to support our
needs. Are we really asking too much??
(What would you think of a
class where only one kid in the whole class even PROMISED to
turn in one essay??)
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