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Issue Position: Defending Our Most Vulnerable

Issue Position

Date: Jan. 1, 2016
Issues: Health and Health Care

The level of a society's enlightenment and compassion can be directly measured by how it treats its most
vulnerable members. Assemblymember Kearns knows firsthand the concern and anxiety that caring for a loved one with a mental health disability creates for a family. His brother Paul has suffered from the effects of encephalitis from an early age and is mentally handicapped.

The proposed $90 million in cuts by Governor Cuomo to the Office for People With Developmental Disabilities would put many members of our most vulnerable population at too great a risk. OPWDD has absorbed $350 million in cuts over the previous five years and these measures by the Governor in Assemblymember Kearns' estimation are simply too far. Assemblymember Kearns has co-sponsored a bill to restore this funding and become a tireless advocate in making the injustice of these cuts known to the public.


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