If anyone is well-positioned to preserve funding for children and families in the coming year, it's Senator Jeannie Darneille (LD 27-D), the chair of the Human Services, Reentry and Rehabilitation Committee and member of the Ways and Means Committee. She has a history of commitment to funding education, expanding health care and creating living-wage jobs in her time in the legislature, and she spent decades working in education and in social services agencies.She calls herself tough; the Children's Campaign Fund calls her a keeper. Vote Darneille on Nov. 3. Learn more at sdc.wastateleg.org/darneille.