[blparent] Full and Open Disclosure

Sat Jun 9 01:02:04 UTC 2012

I'm done.  I can't deal with this anymore.

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 6:04 PM
To: "Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Subject: Re: [blparent] Full and Open Disclosure

> I sent him the entire thread so he sees both sides. would you like me to 
> send the list the emails as well? Are you lying again Joe? We just learned 
> that your lies can be exposed, remember? so I would not tell any more lies 
> if I were you. because these emails show you in fact emailed me, all day 
> today.
> Gabe Vega - Sent from my Macbook Air
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> On Jun 8, 2012, at 5:00 PM, Jo Elizabeth Pinto wrote:
>
>> 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
>>> Phone Voice/Text: (623) 565-9357
>>> Email: theblindtech at gmail.com
>>> Twitter: http://twitter.com/blindtech
>>> FaceBook: http://facebook.com/blindtech
>>> Website: http://thebt.net
>>>
>>> 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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