AFSCME launches "No Quinn Cuts" Campaign to protect public services and jobs

</element><element id="paragraph-1" type="body"><![CDATA[Opposition is mounting across Illinois to Governor Pat Quinn's budget proposal that would cut disability services and mental health care, release prison inmates early while reducing parole oversight, and wipe out some 3,000 middle-class jobs-even as Quinn claims job creation is his top priority and has handed out hundreds of millions of dollars in corporate tax breaks.

Giving voice to the public outcry against Quinn's misplaced priorities, the state's largest union of public-service workers, the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) Council 31, is launching a "No Quinn Cuts" campaign of grassroots mobilization and paid media.

The campaign's initial steps include a petition for concerned citizens to sign and personalize with their own reasons for opposing Pat Quinn's harmful budget cuts at NoQuinnCuts.com, a Facebook page at Facebook.com/NoQuinnCuts, and a statewide program of radio ads that began airing this morning.

The first radio spot is "Shared Sacrifice." The spot can be streamed in its entirety at NoQuinnCuts.com.