Packages From Home: Casualty of Governor’s budget cuts

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Military will be disappointed over the holiday season as anticipated packages are halted.

Governor  Napolitano’s budget cuts  will impact the Arizona National Guard troops she so warmly embraced on her whirlwind trip to the Iraqi battle zone several months ago.

“We are not happy here,” said Kathleen Lewis, founder and executive director of the four-year-old, non-profit Packages From Home .

Lewis said she learned of the cut last Thursday and was told that the National Guard would no longer pay for packages being sent to Iraq and Afghanistan after 3 p.m. the next day. The group packed as many boxes as possible, Lewis said, to meet the Friday deadline.

Packages From Home shipped about 2,000 packages a month, drawing from donations dropped at 60 sites throughout the Valley. “Our military family never quits on us; why would we quit on them?” asked Lewis.

Donations can be made by going to www.packagesfromhome.org or by calling (602) 253-0284.

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2 Responses to “Packages From Home: Casualty of Governor’s budget cuts”

  1. Leslie Says:
    October 11, 2007 at 10:04 am

    How can this be? Janet loves the troops.

  2. Mr. Conservative Says:
    October 11, 2007 at 11:29 pm

    It’s not an election year… I’m sure she’ll figure out how to blame it on the state legislature and the charge will stick in the local press ( unless FNC covers this issue somehow ) because they LOVE J’Nap!!!

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