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TO: California Treatment Advocacy Coalition
FROM: Carla Jacobs & Randall Hagar
DATE: September 1, 2000
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NO JOY, BUT HOPE
The 2000 Session of the California Legislature ended yesterday and AB 1800 with it. On its last day the bill remained just as it has for the last long weeks—deeply buried by Senator John Burton.
We cannot help but be sad, sad for all those who will suffer in the upcoming months without AB 1800.
But we are also proud, proud of you and what you have accomplished.
The first CTAC message was sent last November 19. It went to a few dozen people.
We are now hundreds dedicated to gaining treatment for those who need it, but are incapable of getting it for themselves. Thanks to you, thousands of letters have made impressions on legislators and newspapers. Almost every one of California’s Legislators has had to look a CTAC member in the eye and explain his or her stance on LPS reform. Organization after organization got behind our bill—the accumulated political weight for AB 1800 was incredible for a piece of mental health legislation. Almost every major newspaper came out for the measure. Some—like the Chronicle and the LA Times—got behind it time and time again. Chances are if it wasn’t for you showing them how much you cared, they would not have. Take a look at the list below of some of the supporters of our bill.
A year ago was pretty much just like every other since LPS took effect. Those who cared about people with mental illness saw, heard, and read about how LPS stopped people rendered without reason by their sickness from being helped. Yet while many complained, few worked to change this irrational law.
Now we have banded together, and we are working. We have brought the plight of those overcome by mental illness into the public eye. We have educated our newspapers. We have gained allies. We have taught our legislators.
We will be back. And we will be ready.
THANK YOU. Thank you for caring.
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SUPPORTERS OF ASSEMBLY BILL 1800EDITORIALS FROM MAJOR NEWSPAPERS FOR AB1800
Desert Sun
REGISTERED SUPPORT OF AB1800
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