[Ct-nfb] Safety is Only Hours Away

[Elizabeth Rival]

Deb, hope this helps. With the exception of The Seeing Eye which requires students to pay a symbolic fee of $150 for the first dog, $50 for successor dogs and $1 if the student is a blinded veteran, all of these IGDF schools  provide guide dogs to blind people at no cost. Therefore, since the bill requires guide dogs to be received from an IGDF program, it is not a matter of “discrimination” to exclude guide dogs from this bill.  there is simply no need to include provisions for guide dogs  in the bill since there is no cost to the blind person. 

 

 

From: Ct-nfb [mailto:ct-nfb-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Deb Reed via Ct-nfb
Sent: Wednesday, June 03, 2015 2:37 PM
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Subject: Re: [Ct-nfb] Safety is Only Hours Away

 

Justin,
I understand that you were working with national to find out if in fact removing guide dogs from the bill would be discriminatory? Was there any results on that question yet? Respectfully, Deb
 Deb Reed, President

National Federation Of The Blind

Central CT Chapter

Phone - 860-584-5221

Email - deb.reed57 at gmail.com


On Jun 3, 2015, at 2:25 AM, Justin Salisbury via Ct-nfb <ct-nfb at nfbnet.org> wrote:

Fellow Federationists:

 

The last day of this session for the Connecticut General Assembly is Wednesday, June 3.

 

They still haven’t passed or amended SB 234, the bill that would cause so many problems in the guide dog system as we know it.

 

If our work was effective, we will soon see the results. If our work was not, we will see that, too. I may not know by the end of the day what happened with the bill because there may be some lag time for everything to get entered after the hectic day of slamming bills through the process, but I will let everyone know as soon as I know.

 

Whatever the result is, I am proud to have been a part of this effort with my Federation family both in Connecticut and nationally. 

 

Keep your fingers crossed!

 

Justin

 

Justin Salisbury - Running Thunder Phoenix

Graduate Student

Professional Development and Research Institute on Blindness

Louisiana Tech University

Email: President at Alumni.ECU.edu

Twitter: @SalisburyJustin

 

First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out—

Because I was not a Socialist. 

 

Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out— 

Because I was not a Trade Unionist. 

 

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out— 

Because I was not a Jew. 

 

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