BROADVIEW – In response to the governor’s cuts in the state budget targeting many local projects and community organizations, state Rep. Karen Yarbrough (D-Maywood) issued the following statement after a well-attending public hearing to highlight the worthiness of the projects cut.

“As we have heard tonight, these organizations are not ‘pork,’ as the governor has characterized them.  They provide real services to make our communities better places to live and make a difference in the lives of the less fortunate.  To take money away from local groups to create a backdoor health care bureaucracy that was roundly rejected by the legislature is an insult to the people of my district.  The strange part is that in order to create this new health care program, the governor had to take funding away from community health care programs.”

For more information, contact Yarbrough’s constituent service office at 708-615-1747.

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