[blparent] Full and Open Disclosure

Sat Jun 9 00:00:34 UTC 2012

Interesting, since I was at the zoo all day with my kids.  Now we're going 
to the pool, so I'll deal with this later.  I hope you sent Steve all of 
your vicious, vindictive e-mails, too.

Jo Elizabeth

"A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a 
song."  Maya Angelou

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From: "Gabe Vega" <theblindtech at gmail.com>
Sent: Friday, June 08, 2012 5:54 PM
To: "Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Subject: Re: [blparent] Full and Open Disclosure

> really Joe? its a good thing I forwarded all of your harassing emails to 
> Steve because other wise it would have seemed like I'm just some evil 
> blind man picking on you. when in fact, you emailed me first, cussing at 
> me and calling me very mean and nasty names about how I made you feel. 
> emails that I have been receiving for the past 6 hours since this morning. 
> it was only after I told you that I knew you were a lyer. thanks to a 
> phone call. I never said I accessed your info online, being that Social 
> Security information is not available to the general public via the world 
> wide web.   now please, leave me alone. Thank you.
> Gabe Vega - Sent from my Macbook Air
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> On Jun 8, 2012, at 3:49 PM, Jo Elizabeth Pinto wrote:
>
>> Hi, all.  Gabe Vega, in a private message he wrote to me, accused me of 
>> misrepresenting my income and job situation to this list in an effort to 
>> make myself look better than I really am.  Moreover, he claims to have 
>> looked my personal information up online, which is how he found out about 
>> the supposed lies I told.  I shouldn't have to justify myself to him or 
>> to anybody else, but I try to live a life of integrity, and so, in case 
>> any of the rest of you feel that I portrayed myself dishonestly, here is 
>> the whole truth.
>>
>> I receive a monthly check from the Social Security Administration, but it 
>> is an SSD check, not SSI or welfare, as Gabe originally claimed.  I was 
>> on SSI at one time, but I eventually paid into the system enough to 
>> qualify for SSD, as per the regulations of the United States government. 
>> I still pay into the system via yearly income taxes, and a 15% Social 
>> Security tax, which is required of people who are self-employed.  I'm 
>> sorry if my denial of receiving SSI or welfare was interpreted to mean 
>> that I got no government money at all.
>>
>> In addition to my monthly SSD check, which is just enough to cover my 
>> $921 mortgage payment, I also work as an independent contractor, 
>> proofreading braille for several production houses across the country. 
>> Gabe accused me of playing up the income from my job when it was, he 
>> said, in actuality pocket change.  Last year I made $10,623.95, gross 
>> income.  In the first year I started doing freelance proofreading, which 
>> was 2005, I earned $20,750.85.  In my best year, which was 2006, I 
>> grossed $28,653.30.  The economy is very far down since then.
>>
>> Gerald, who is not my husband, makes fairly good money as the sole 
>> proprietor of a watch and clock repair shop in the town where we live.  I 
>> am not at liberty to disclose the figures.  However, he has another 
>> household for which he is largely, though not wholly, responsible.  So, 
>> as I said in my original defense against Gabe's first attacking post, 
>> most of the money to support myself and my daughter comes from me.
>>
>> I don't know exactly what information Gabe found out about me online, or 
>> how he came by what he did locate.  I feel threatened by the fact that he 
>> decided to dig into my private business via the Internet, and if he can 
>> really ferret out facts as easily as he says he can, the rest of you 
>> ought to be careful not to bring his wrath, or his detective skills, down 
>> on your heads.  But I'm not threatened by telling the truth, and so I 
>> have given all of you a full and open disclosure of the facts in 
>> question.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Jo Elizabeth
>>
>> "A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a 
>> song."  Maya Angelou
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