This just in from New Yorkers to Cure Paralysis, read their letter below and then:
- Lend your voice to support this important program, tell your legislator
- Learn more about New Yorkers to Cure Paralysis, click here.
- Learn more about the NY Spinal Cord Injury Research Board, click here.
Dear SCIRP Supporter:
The New York State Assembly and Senate have fully funded the Spinal Cord Injury Research Program at $8.5 million in their respective one-house budget bills. Thank you for all of the work you have done so far. We are getting close to our goal of fully restoring the program.
The state budget is scheduled to conclude in about two weeks. Budget conference committee meeting activity began yesterday and negotiations toward a final budget are in full swing. We ask that you get in touch with your Assembly and Senate members early this week to thank them for their support and urge them to continue their advocacy on behalf of SCIRP. Specifically, please ask them to weigh in on behalf of full funding ($8.5 million), with the Health Budget Subcommittee Chairs Senator Kemp Hannon and Assembly member Richard Gottfried, as well as Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie.
You can find your legislative members here: http://act.commoncause.org/site/PageServer?pagename=sunlight_advocacy_list_page
Thank you very much for your support of the NY Spinal Cord Injury Research Program.
New Yorkers To Cure Paralysis Board of Directors David Carmel, Nancy Lieberman, Paul Francis and Paul Richter
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