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	<title>Kathy Luz Herrera</title>
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		<title>7th Hospicare Swim a Financial and Community-Building Success</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Three hundred women and over 150 intrepid kayakers took to the water, raising over $258,000 for Hospicare. Event organizers decided that due to rough waters, the swim would be conducted along the shore, with swimmers completing a 1.2 mile swim going from South to North. 
Jill and I were in the lucky first wave, 4th [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.herreraforithaca.com/?p=688</link>
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		<title>Support Hospicare: Sponsor a Swimmer for Women Swimmin&#8217; 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Despite an abundance of timely political events, by far the biggest influence in my personal life these past few months has been Women Swimmin’. Now in its seventh year, this fundraiser for Hospicare and Palliative Care Services (HPCS) is a community swim that embraces and helps define our strengths as a community. Since I embarked [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.herreraforithaca.com/?p=679</link>
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		<title>Health Insurance Reform is Better than the Status Quo</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As an advocate for single payer health care (also known as Medicare for all), I&#8217;ve struggled as the reforms I&#8217;d supported got diluted and distorted. 
Rather than rant more about that, I&#8217;ll take this opportunity to note that some reform is better than taking no action at all to repair a broken system.  Right [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.herreraforithaca.com/?p=668</link>
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		<title>No Industry-Written Health Care Reform: Ithaca Democratic Socialists Say &#8220;Kill the Bill&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am in favor of single payer health care, also known as Medicare for all. I won&#8217;t settle for &#8220;reform&#8221; legislation written by the insurance industry to maximize profits at the expense of working families. Former New York State Assemblyman Marty Luster and Theresa Alt of the Ithaca Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) today issued [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.herreraforithaca.com/?p=664</link>
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		<title>Marcellus  Shale Hydrofracking Discussed with Walter Hang on Democracy Now</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Check out this video of Amy Goodman&#8217;s Democracy Now interview of Walter Hang about hydrofracking and the lack of adequate regulation in Governor Paterson&#8217;s proposed supplemental generic environmental impact statement:
It&#8217;s about 11 minutes and is riveting info for those of us concerned about the inadequacies of the proposed sGEIS on Marcellus Shale Hydrofracking.
In the interview, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.herreraforithaca.com/?p=644</link>
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		<title>With Gratitude</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dear  Neighbors,
Thank you for providing me with your vote, and another opportunity to serve you on the County Legislature. All residents are part of this community, and it is an honor to represent you.
I appreciate your willingness to share your views and opinions on the list serve, on advisory boards, in the community, and directly with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.herreraforithaca.com/?p=613</link>
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		<title>Vote Tuesday November 3!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Info on Tompkins County Polling Places
Vote on Tuesday, November 3, Election Day 2009
Polls are open Tue Nov 3 from 6am – 9pm Eastern Time
Do you live in District 5 of Tompkins County New York?
Please vote “Kathy Luz Herrera” for County Legislature so that I can serve you and County residents for another term.
Tompkins County Polling [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.herreraforithaca.com/?p=603</link>
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		<title>Meet with Kathy Luz Herrera at Neighborhood Open House</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You are invited to meet with Kathy Luz Herrera
County Legislator for District 5
October 27, from 5PM to 7PM
611 N. Cayuga St, at
an open house sponsored by Susan Koon.
Enjoy refreshments, visit with Kathy (and her new knee) and discuss with neighbors and residents the issues that concern you.
For more information or to RSVP, email kathyluz@herreraforithaca.com or [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.herreraforithaca.com/?p=597</link>
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		<title>Call Congress in Support of Real Health Care Reform</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This timely message just in from the AFL-CIO, and I fully support it-Call your senators and representative today: 1-877-235-2465
The clock is ticking. Every hour, another five people die because they don’t have health insurance.1
How many more have to die before everyone in America has access to quality, affordable health care?
Too many have died already. We [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.herreraforithaca.com/?p=593</link>
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		<title>President Obama to Deliver Keynote at Human Rights Campaign Annual Dinner</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a climate of dissention over whether he has done enough to fulfill his promises to the LGBT community, President Obama will give the keynote address at the Human Rights Campaign&#8217;s 13th Annual National Dinner on Saturday, October 10th, in Washington, D.C.  At the same event, U.S. Rep. Patrick Kennedy will also present the first-ever [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.herreraforithaca.com/?p=591</link>
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