[Colorado-talk] Urgent, Please act!

[Michael Evans]

I also sent my letters. I know someone who just got trained for this
program.

On Fri, Aug 4, 2017 at 9:59 PM, Melissa Fishburn via Colorado-Talk <
colorado-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:

> I'm on it!
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> Sent from my iPhone
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> > On Aug 4, 2017, at 10:09 AM, Kevan Worley via Colorado-Talk <
> colorado-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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> > Greetings family, friends, and colleagues. Many of you will have
> received this through other sources. However, please entertain my personal
> ask! Operators in Colorado and the Nation will lose significant opportunity
> if congress makes changes to the law which allows blind individuals to
> manage vending operations on roadside rest areas. Not only will this change
> effect 3 blind entrepreneurs and all of our employees in Colorado, it will
> significantly reduce funding for the entire program. This is because the
> program will lose the fees paid by the roadside rest area entrepreneurs.
> This will have an impact on our employees and those family and friends who
> are able to benefit, in one way or another, by these businesses. Do we
> really want a McDonalds or Denny's on the highway roadside rest areas?
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> > Will you please read the announcement below and generate your letters
> today! Please urge your friends and family members to help. If you need
> someone in my office to assist, please call. But I think this is very
> simple and straight forward for us. Can you please let me know when you
> have accomplished this so that we can keep a chart. I do apricate
> everyone's effort.
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> > At Your Service,
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> > Office: 1-866-543-6808
> > Cell: (303)929-2369
> > Fax: (719)527-0129
> > www.worleyenterprises.com<http://www.worleyenterprises.com/>
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> > Dear Randolph-Sheppard Stakeholder: As we have told you over the last
> few weeks, momentum is growing for commercialization of our interstate rest
> areas. A bill has been introduced in the House of Representatives. The
> President's proposed budget for FY 2018 communicated support for the idea.
> The infrastructure bill that will presumably be introduced next year is
> expected to include the option of commercialization of the rest areas
> through public private partnerships. Almost 400 blind entrepreneurs could
> lose their businesses. The threat is real.
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> > We need your help in preventing this from happening. We need for you to
> contact your members of Congress today to tell them you oppose
> commercialization of the interstate rest areas. We've made it easy for you.
> Go to the link below:
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> > https://nfb.constituentvoice.net/nfbaction
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> > and send a letter to your two U.S. Senators and House member. The
> website will automatically find your members for you. It is as simple as
> 1-2-3-4.
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> > 1.  Review the letter on the website that has been drafted for you to
> send;
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> > 2.  Fill in all of the blanks with your contact information;
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> > 3.  Click on "Preview Letters";
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> > 4.  Click on "Send All Letters"
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> > It couldn't be any easier.
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> > But don't stop there:
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> > 1.  Get all of your friends and family members to send letters;
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> > 2.  Poste the link on your Facebook Page or Twitter account and
> encourage followers to help out the cause;
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> > 3.  Contact your member of Congress' local office and ask for a meeting
> when they are home in a few weeks for the summer recess. We will be sharing
> talking points for such meetings or you can go to our website at
> www.blindmerchants.org<http://www.blindmerchants.org/> to review
> them.Talking points will be up soon.
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> > We need every U.S. Senator and member of Congress to receive as many
> letters as possible and we need them from as many different addresses as
> possible. If every blind entrepreneur sends a letter and gets 4 other
> people to do the same, we will generate over 10,000 letters. We can beat
> that.
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> > Nicky Gacos, President
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> > NABM
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> > Don't sit on the sidelines. Get involved
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