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3/16/2010

Community Uses Web site to Appeal to Governor

In the days before Gov. Patrick J. Quinn kicks off the state's budget process with the unveiling of his spending plan, Leslie Corbett, executive director of the Illinois Equal Justice Foundation, has been hoping to go viral with a message to the governor: No more cuts in funding to legal aid providers — please.

That's the bottom line to a message that Corbett hopes as many members as possible of the legal community will post on a Web site launched two weeks ago by the governor's Office of Management and Budget.

The governor is expected to present his budget plan for the 2011 fiscal year on Wednesday.
Corbett said she reached out to about 300 people — including members of the legal community, social service organizations who also serve the same client base as legal aid providers, and some of her own "prolific" friends and relatives — with an e-mail message urging them to: "Act now to save legal aid funding" by posting comments that would "let the governor know the importance of civil legal aid in our communities."

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