2,000 Protest Mental Health Budget Cuts
Nearly 2,000 demonstrators converged Monday at the state Capitol on behalf of California’s mentally ill, calling Gov. Pete Wilson’s budget cuts Draconian and a threat to the most vulnerable members of the population.
A coalition of doctors, psychiatric workers, patients and politicians from dozens of health-care organizations urged the governor to restore all or part of a proposed $88-million cut and provide “some semblance of stable, common-sense funding.”
Protesters from throughout the state, with the largest contingent from Los Angeles County, carried hand-painted placards and chanted, “No Cuts! No Cuts!”
The governor, facing a multibillion-dollar deficit, has proposed an $88-million cut for mental health programs for the 1992-93 budget year beginning July 1. The programs serve about 200,000 people throughout the state.
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