If you or someone you love needs those services, or will need them when they get older, is saving the services worth enough to make two calls and send one more e-mail today or tomorrow?

It’s all now in the hands of the two leaders of the Legislature’s Democrats (Senator Kevin de Leon and Assembly Member Toni Atkins) and the six members of the budget conference committee (Senators Mark Leno, Ricardo Lara and Jim Nielsen and Assembly Members Shirley Weber, Richard Bloom and Melissa Melendez).

At this late point, those eight decision-makers will listen to the people in the eight districts they represent, to the other 112 legislators, and to Governor Brown. For some of them, that may be all.

If you live in the district of one of those eight, we implore you to call them.

And no matter where you live, call and e-mail your own Senate and Assembly representatives to urge them to talk to the decision-makers from their own parties. Here’s how:

1. Click here and follow the prompts. You’ll get your two legislators’ Sacramento numbers, party affiliations and some possible talking points.
    
2. Read the talking points and decide what you want to say.
    
3. If you've ever talked to someone in your senator’s or assemblymember’s district office near you or their Sacramento office, call that person now. Otherwise, call the legislator’s Sacramento office.
    
4. Say what you have to say politely but very clearly. If your voice sounds impassioned, or it shakes, all the better.
    
5. When you’re done, e-mail Greg deGiere, Public Policy Director for The Arc and United Cerebral Palsy California Collaboration at Greg@TheArcCA.org and let him know the results.
    
6. Then send an e-mail to your senator and assemblymember, no matter how many you’ve sent them already.

 Now more than ever, thank you for your advocacy.

 P.S. Please forward this Action Alert to everyone you know.