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The authors ask Marin residents to join police, firefighters and public health specialists, the people who clean our streets, run our jails and work at the local library — to oppose Chuck Reed’s attacks on working families.
Take the ideas in this wonderful essay and adapt it for your own city, town, county or state. This is the kind of stuff that will turn the tide against our enemies
Cesar Lagleva of San Rafael, a mental health worker with the county’s Youth Empowerment Services program and Angelo Sacheli , a retired county social worker and former program manager at the West Marin Human Services Center in California co-wrote this piece which calls San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed’s pension ballot measure for what it is – an attack on the middle class.
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It’s time to invest in the middle class and working people — not demonize them. What we need is not to break promises — promises that have helped us recruit the high-quality public workforce that maintains our high quality of life in Marin. We need a renewed focus on creating more opportunity, creating good jobs in both the public and private sector, and making sure that all workers have strong retirement security they can rely on when they’re elderly.
We’re asking Marin residents to join with our public workers — police, firefighters and public health specialists, the people who clean our streets, run our jails and work at the local library — to oppose attacks on working families.
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