[FoCHAT] CHAT call for letters to the State - Urgent

[Ray Broussard]

The State Senate begins debate on budget Sunday June 3rd. CHAT needs your help.

Please email or call the Governor, her Administrative Commissioner, 
and Louisiana's State Senators requesting they contribute some of the 
state's budget surplus to the Road Home Program so that the US 
Congress can justify funding the rest of the RHP funding shortfall.

Use either the message below or write your own. Please distribute 
this request to every RHP applicant you know and to sympathetic 
people that understand the dire need of South Louisiana homeowners 
victimized by storms and levee failures.

Addresses and phone numbers are below the sample letter.

Use this sample letter if you wish:

Louisiana should contribute some of its budget surplus to the Road 
Home Program to help over 100,000 South Louisiana families return to 
their homes damaged by hurricanes and levee failures.

The US Congress is very unlikely to fund the Road Home shortfall 
unless our state contributes some of its budget surplus to the 
program. Most of the budget surplus exists because Katrina and Rita 
caused so much damage to property owners residing in South Louisiana.

Our state government should not hold damaged homeowners hostage to 
politics. So far, our state has failed its homeowners miserably and 
our families have waited too long for help. This is an opportunity 
for our state to do the right thing for our people. Louisiana 
families who have lost their homes, furniture, family, neighbors, 
community institutions, careers, insurance, family heirlooms, art, 
faith, hope and confidence are still suffering inhumane delays. Our 
homeowners deserve a recovery. The need is urgent.

Please support partial state funding of the Road Home Program's 
budget shortfall now. It is the right thing to do for our people.

Thank you.

Here are the addresses and phone numbers:

The Governor:
'Governor Kathleen Blanco' <kathleen.blanco at la.gov>
866-366-1121
225-342-0991

The Governor's Administrative Commissioner
'Jerry Luke LeBlanc' <jerryluke.leblanc at la.gov>
225-342-7000
Mr. LeBlanc's staff:
Jean.Vandal at la.gov
Jim.Baronet at la.gov
BillBlack at la.gov
JodiMauroner at la.gov
Barabara.Goodson at la.gov

Senators working on Appropriations and/or Recovery Committee:

hinesd at legis.state.la.us, heitmeierf at legis.state.la.us, 
bajoied at legis.state.la.us, murraye at legis.state.la.us, 
lasen29 at legis.state.la.us, boassow at legis.state.la.us, 
hollisk at legis.state.la.us, fieldsc at legis.state.la.us, 
cainj at legis.state.la.us, lasen27 at legis.state.la.us, 
adleyr at legis.state.la.us, smithcheek at legis.state.la.us, 
gautreauxn at legis.state.la.us, ellingtn at legis.state.la.us, 
jacksonl at legis.state.la.us, jonesc at legis.state.la.us, 
lasen21 at legis.state.la.us, neversb at legis.state.la.us, 
schedlet at legis.state.la.us, lentini at legis.state.la.us, 
ulloc at legis.state.la.us

The rest of the Senators:
amedeej at legis.state.la.us, barhamr at legis.state.la.us, 
lasen15 at legis.state.la.us, Lasen16 at legis.state.la.us, 
Chaissonj at legis.state.la.us, cravinsd at legis.state.la.us, 
duplessisa at legis.state.la.us, lasen20 at legis.state.la.us, 
fontenoc at legis.state.la.us, kostelka at legis.state.la.us, 
malonem at legis.state.la.us, lasen17 at legis.state.la.us, 
lasen23 at legis.state.la.us, quinnj at legis.state.la.us, 
romeroc at legis.state.la.us, Lasen3 at legis.state.la.us, 
smithmi at legis.state.la.us, theunisg at legis.state.la.us

Senators individual phone numbers and addresses in order of 
importance to this cause:
Senator Donald E. Hines, M.D.	hinesd at legis.state.la.us	(318) 346-4619
Senator Francis C. Heitmeier	heitmeierf at legis.state.la.us	(504) 361-6014
Senator Diana E. Bajoie	bajoied at legis.state.la.us	(504) 568-7760
Senator Edwin R. Murray	murraye at legis.state.la.us	(504) 945-0042
Senator Joe McPherson	lasen29 at legis.state.la.us	(318) 484-2211
Senator Walter J. Boasso	boassow at legis.state.la.us	(504) 270-9258
Senator Ken Hollis	hollisk at legis.state.la.us	(504) 828-9300
Senator Cleo Fields	fieldsc at legis.state.la.us	(225) 342-9793
Senator James David Cain	cainj at legis.state.la.us	(337) 328-7266
Senator Willie L. Mount	lasen27 at legis.state.la.us	(337) 491-2016
Senator Robert Adley	adleyr at legis.state.la.us	(318) 965-1755
Senator Sherri Smith Cheek	smithcheek at legis.state.la.us	(318) 687-4820
Senator "Nick" Gautreaux	gautreauxn at legis.state.la.us	(337) 740-NICK
Senator Noble E. Ellington	ellingtn at legis.state.la.us	(318) 435-7313
Senator Lydia P. Jackson	jacksonl at legis.state.la.us	(318) 676-7029
Senator Charles D. "C.D." Jones	mailto:jonesc at legis.state.la.us	(318) 362-5469
Senator D. A. "Butch" Gautreaux	lasen21 at legis.state.la.us	(800) 562-3204
Senator Ben Nevers	mailto:neversb at legis.state.la.us	(985) 732-6863
Senator John T. "Tom" Schedler	schedlet at legis.state.la.us	(985) 727-7949
Senator Arthur J. "Art" Lentini	lentini at legis.state.la.us	(504) 780-8700
Senator J. Chris Ullo	mailto:ulloc at legis.state.la.us	(504) 361-6690
Senator "Jody" Amedee	amedeej at legis.state.la.us	(225) 644-1526
Senator Robert J. Barham	barhamr at legis.state.la.us	(318) 244-5582
Senator Sharon Weston Broome	lasen15 at legis.state.la.us	(225) 359-9352
Senator Bill Cassidy	Lasen16 at legis.state.la.us	(225) 925-2522
Senator Joel T. Chaisson, II	mailto:Chaissonj at legis.state.la.us 
	(985) 764-9911
Senator Donald R. "Don" Cravins, Jr.	cravinsd at legis.state.la.us 
	(337) 943-2407
Senator Ann Duplessis	duplessisa at legis.state.la.us	(504) 243-7795
Senator Reggie P. Dupre, Jr.	lasen20 at legis.state.la.us	(985) 876-9902
Senator Heulette "Clo" Fontenot	fontenoc at legis.state.la.us	(225) 686-0108
Senator Robert W. "Bob" Kostelka	kostelka at legis.state.la.us 
	(800) 508-5572
Senator Max T. Malone	malonem at legis.state.la.us	(318) 676-5733
Senator Robert "Rob" Marionneaux, Jr.	lasen17 at legis.state.la.us 
	(225) 637-3623
Senator Michael J. "Mike" Michot	lasen23 at legis.state.la.us 
	(337) 262-1332
Senator Julie Quinn	quinnj at legis.state.la.us	(504) 219-4640
Senator Craig F. Romero	romeroc at legis.state.la.us	(337) 364-8006
Senator Derrick Shepherd	mailto:Lasen3 at legis.state.la.us	(504) 371-0263
Senator Kenneth M. "Mike" Smith	smithmi at legis.state.la.us	(318) 628-3075
Senator Gerald J. Theunissen	theunisg at legis.state.la.us	(337) 824-0376

For more information on CHAT, please visit http://chat.thinknola.com/
Thank you very much,
Ray Broussard
a CHAT Board Member
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