IN NY: 72 HOURS LEFT TO GET A YESHIVA TUITION BREAK. From an email I got from JM in the AM:

Dear Friend:

Your elected officials in Albany are planning on leaving town until 2008 without providing yeshiva parents with any financial relief!

The legislative session ends on Thursday, June 21, leaving less than 72 hours for them to successfully pass the Lopez-Golden Tuition Tax Deduction Bill. If we do not act now, it will be too late to help the many families who are struggling to pay tuition.

All it takes is one sixty-second toll-free phone call and our community could save millions of dollars. Please call Governor Eliot Spitzer's office today at (800) 319-3403.

If you speak with a live operator, please tell them:

"I'm calling to ask the Governor to support the Lopez-Golden Tuition Tax Deduction Bill."

If you reach a voice mailbox, DO NOT HANG UP. Every call is logged and every message counts!

Wait until the end of the message and after the tone, leave the same message along with your zip code:

"I am calling to ask the Governor to support the Lopez-Golden Tuition Tax Deduction Bill. My zip code is XXXXX."

Now is the time to act to help families who are struggling to pay yeshiva tuition. Assemblyman Vito Lopez & Senator Marty Golden and have introduced legislation that would allow middle-class parents to deduct the cost of private school tuition from their state taxes and poor families would receive an actual tax credit. This could save average families in our community thousands of dollars each year.

Call (800) 319-3403 today and let the Governor know that we are counting on his support to enact the Lopez-Golden Tuition Tax Deduction Bill that would bring financial relief to tuition-paying parents. Thank you!

P.S. Every single call is logged and makes a difference - please forward this email to your family and friends.

Also: Check out the TeachNYS site.

No, I don't live in NY either...

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