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Daley invites residents to office hours

            State Rep. Kevin Daley is holding district office hours in order to give residents a convenient opportunity to meet with him locally. 

            Daley will be available Friday, Jan. 29 from noon to 1 p.m. at the Lapeer County Farm Bureau Offices, located at 1658 Mayfield Road in Lapeer.      

            No appointment is necessary.  Residents unable to meet during the scheduled office hours may contact Daley at his Lansing office by calling 1-517-373-1800 or by e-mailing kevindaley@house.mi.gov.

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Daley has perfect voting record during first year in office

            State Rep. Kevin Daley did not miss a single vote during the 2009 House legislative session, making him one of the few Michigan lawmakers who can boast a perfect voting record.

            "When I vote on something in Lansing I always try to think how it will affect families here at home, which is why I take a lot of time to study the issues," said Daley, of Lum.  "People elected me to make tough decisions - I take that responsibility seriously."

            According to the nonpartisan website www.michiganvotes.org, less than a third of Michigan lawmakers maintained a perfect voting record.  In total, Daley cast 682 votes in the House this year. 

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PHOTO ADVISORY: State Rep. Kevin Daley, of Lum, donates $1,000 to Loving Hands Clinic, which provides non-emergency medical care to adults without health insurance.  Accepting the check are Loving Hands Executive Director Cathy Johnson and Pastor Gary Gillim, of Maple Grove Church.  Daley has pledged to donate 10 percent of the salary he earns as a state representative to charities serving Lapeer County.

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Daley wants budget completed by Saturday deadline

            State Rep. Kevin Daley and other members of the House Bipartisan Freshman Caucus on Wednesday sent a formal letter to Gov. Granholm and key state budget leaders urging them to get the state budget signed into law before the looming Saturday deadline.

            Michigan is currently operating on a one-month emergency continuation budget that expires on Oct. 31, yet the governor still has not signed six of 15 budget bills.  The letter, signed by Republicans and Democrats, is addressed to Gov. Jennifer Granholm, Senate Majority Leader Mike Bishop and House Speaker Andy Dillon.

            "Lawmakers reached a bipartisan agreement to balance the budget without raising taxes and sent it to the governor," said Daley, of Lum.  "It is absolutely inexcusable that nearly a month later the budget still hasn't been signed into law.  This needs to be done, and it needs to be done now."

            Daley said if the governor is planning on vetoing the remaining budget bills, she must give lawmakers enough time to come up with another workable solution or risk causing some parts of the government to grind to a halt.

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Freshman Demand Budget Resoultion Letter To Leadership.pdf

Daley invites residents to office hours

State Rep. Kevin Daley is holding district office hours in order to give residents a convenient opportunity to meet with him locally.
Daley will be available Friday, Oct. 23 from 7:30 to 9:30 a.m. at the Sundance Grill restaurant, located at 3817 S. Lapeer Road in Metamora.
No appointment is necessary. Residents unable to meet during the scheduled office hours may contact Daley at his Lansing office by calling 1-517-373-1800 or by e-mailing kevindaley@house.mi.gov. 

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Daley introduces legislation to penalize lawmakers for failing to complete budget on time

            Following the second government shutdown in two years, state Rep. Kevin Daley is supporting bipartisan legislation to penalize lawmakers for failing to complete the state budget on time.

            At midnight on Wednesday morning, state government briefly shut down for two hours while lawmakers struggled to get an emergency continuation budget approved by the governor.  A similar situation happened in 2007, when government shut down for four hours.

            "I didn't run for state representative to shut down the government," said Daley, of Lum.  "In my opinion this is a miserable failure.  As the elected leaders of this state, we have let down the working families that send us here to make tough decisions.   The fact that this has happened twice in two years clearly shows we need reform."

            Daley's legislation moves the deadline for finishing the budget to July 1, three months before the start of the new fiscal year.  It also docks lawmakers a day's pay for each day the budget is overdue.

            The plan is to prevent another government shutdown from happening in the future, but in the meantime, lawmakers still only have until the end of October to finish the budget.  Daley said he would continue working to balance the budget without raising taxes.

            "Michigan's unemployment rate has doubled since taxes were raised two years ago.  Families and job providers cannot afford another tax hike."

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Daley urges governor to squash agriculture consolidation plan

A bipartisan group of House lawmakers today sent a letter to Gov. Granholm asking her to squash plans to combine the Department of Agriculture with the departments of Natural Resources and Environmental Quality.
The letter was signed by 41 Republicans and 23 Democrats.
"The agriculture department is one of the few pieces of government that is actually being run efficiently - it doesn't make sense to dismantle the department and shoe-horn it in with two other unrelated departments just to make it look like we're reforming government," said Daley, of Lum. "The department has a successful track record of helping Michigan's agriculture industry grow at a time when nearly every other area of our economy is hemorrhaging jobs - I don't want to risk messing that up."
Agriculture is Michigan's second largest industry, with an estimated economic impact of $71.3 billion annually. A recent study by Michigan State University showed Michigan's agriculture industry experienced 12 percent growth in 2007.
Daley, who is the only farmer serving in the House, said the department does a remarkable job considering it receives less than 0.5 percent of the general fund budget each year for its operations.
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EDITORS NOTE: Attached is a copy of the letter sent to the governor.

Ag Consolidation Letter.pdf