Support California Institute for Regenerative Medicine

[rayilynlee <rayilynlee@xxxxxxx>]

Attn: Stuart Drown 

As a former California resident and Parkinson's disease prisoner of 13 years I 
have monitored Proposition 71 and the difficulties the California Institute for 
Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) has contended with successfully since its passage 
over 5 years ago.  Lawsuits and bureaucratic interference with the will of the 
people have dashed my hopes for a cure in my lifetime.  I am asking that 
consideration be extended to future generations and that you allow research to 
go forward unimpeded.  Specifically,

(1)    Please don't politicize the CIRM by reducing the board members from 29 
to 15 and changing the way they are selected.

(2)    Don't attack and diminish the role of the CIRM Chairperson, the 
indispensable Robert Klein II,  by reducing his term from 6 to 2 years and 
cutting his salary.

(3)    Don't hire more people while cutting salaries and not providing 
appropriate funds.

Today I am an Arizona resident, but I still have Parkinson's disease with no 
cure in sight.  Disease knows no geographic boundaries and we never know where 
a breakthrough might occur.  Please, I implore you, lets get on with it. The 
Little Hoover Commission should not be a force that ends hope and progress for 
millions of suffering people.

Sincerely,

Rayilyn Brown
Director AZNPF
Arizona Chapter National Parkinson Foundation
rbrown@xxxxxxxxx

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