PEF Retirees

MEMO

 

TO:       PEF Retiree membership

FROM:       Stephen Muscarella, Statewide President – PEF Retirees

SUBJECT:       Health insurance protection - phone your legislator!

DATE:       May 5, 2006

On another part of the Retiree web-page are sample letters that we are asking you to send to your NYS legislators. We have also included Senate and Assembly lists which include addresses and phone numbers. We urge you to download these letters today and add your own thoughts from the accompanying Idea Generator. (To download these letters, you will need Adobe Reader which is available through the link at the bottom of the right-hand border on the Retiree web-page.)

We also urge you to get on the phone to your legislators and tell them the same things. The Retiree Executive Board and the Statewide Executive have already sent letters to all of the legislators, particularly the Senate and Assembly leadership, with encouraging results. But that isn’t enough! If we are to be successful, we need YOU to also let the legislators know how important this is.

Send the letters and make the calls. Use the Idea Generators to help you make your point. As you run across other Retirees , encourage them to do the same thing. We can’t afford a statewide mailing to all 15,000 names in our database but with your help, we can pass the word and let our representatives in Albany know that we care about our health care and we intend to do everything we can to ensure that we keep it!