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Most Vigilant Advocates For Public Health Care

TIE: Charlotte Flynn; Venola Schmidt

When these two longtime activists approach the podium in council chambers to offer advice or criticism for the city's operation of public health care, officials stop thumbing through their notebooks and listen. Plainly driven by the conviction that health care is a right for both rich and poor, Flynn and Schmidt practice civil, measured, but frank discourse regarding the medical needs of disadvantaged citizens, refusing to let them be forgotten amidst high-minded privatization reforms. Flynn and Schmidt represent social activism at its most sincere and engaged level.

Charlotte Flynn
3710 Cedar St., Box 15, Room 223
512/458-3738

Venola Schmidt

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