Michele Gouveia-Smith attended a rally in Sacramento on the steps of the state capitol January 27, 2011. She came and spoke to news reporters in order to express the dangers involved with IHSS cuts and her anguish about the possibility of losing her son to an institution if the proposed cuts are enacted:
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