EVIP talking points april 2013.pdf (168.72 kb)<\/a><\/p>\nPlease contact your legislators and let us know how those conversations go. Your help is critical to our advocacy effort!<\/p>\n
Samantha Harkins is the Director of State Affairs for the League. She can be reached at 517-908-0306 and sharkins at mml.org.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This week and next are busy times for the budget. As we mentioend earlier this week both the House and Senate have different versions of the General Government budget. We encourage you to contact your legislators and have drafted talking points to use when having those conversations. You can find […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[22,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legislative-link-articles","category-municipal-finance","mml-onemagnify-plugin"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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