[Ct-nfb] My Birdies for Charity Pledge

Sun Jun 26 21:03:32 UTC 2016

Dear Gary, and friends,

Did you get a chance to read my last email?

I have offered to participate in the Birdies for Charity program by giving a flat donation to NFBCT of $1 for each person who sends all their legislative emails. This is something that our members already have on our to-do lists, so it’s just a matter of doing it now to billow the migration of money from my account to the NFBCT treasury.

We each have three legislators (2 Senators and 1 Congressman or Congresswoman) to contact. There are two issues, so this means 6 simple emails for all of us. Mine tend to look something like this:

To: Congressman John Doe / Senator Jane Doe
Cc: Edward Shaham, Jim McCollum, Justin Salisbury, Derek Manners
Subject: From (Insert Hometown): Please Cosponsor HR #### / S ####

Body of email:
Address
Phone Number
Email

Dear (name of legislative assistant),

I am writing to request that Congressman John Doe cosponsor bill X Y Z, and here’s why…

It doesn’t take long to do, and anyone can do it. Let’s please show the kind of heart we showed with the guide dog health insurance bill. We can get this done!

V/R,

Justin Salisbury

Justin M. Salisbury, MA, NOMC, NCRTB, NCUEB
Committee on Automobile and Pedestrian Safety
National Federation of the Blind
Email: President at Alumni.ECU.edu<mailto:President at Alumni.ECU.edu>
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/justin-salisbury
Twitter: @SalisburyJustin

“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”

William Butler Yeats

From: Ct-nfb [mailto:ct-nfb-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Justin Salisbury via Ct-nfb
Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2016 4:19 PM
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Cc: Justin Salisbury <PRESIDENT at alumni.ecu.edu>; dmanners at nfb.org
Subject: [Ct-nfb] My Birdies for Charity Pledge

Hi Gary,

I want to make this interesting. I really want to see Congressman and Congresswomen from Connecticut cosponsoring the TIME Act and Space Available. I love being able to brag about how my personal congressman, Congressman Joe Courtney, is the only legislator from Connecticut to cosponsor both bills, but I would much rather be able to brag nationally about how Connecticut is the first state to reach 100% cosponsorship.

I’ve been slacking off on making my pledge for Birdies for Charity, so I’m going to offer this:

For every person (need not be a member of NFBCT) who emails their Congressional office AND both Senate offices asking for co-sponsorship of these two bills, I will give a flat donation of $1 through this Birdies for Charity program. In order for me to know that you did this, I’ll need you to copy me on the email that you send. Since Jim McCollum is the Legislative Coordinator and Edward Shaham is the President, I would recommend copying both of them, as well. Also, every time I send something on either bill, I copy Derek Manners, our Government Affairs Specialist at the NFB for both bills. His email address is dmanners at nfb.org<mailto:dmanners at nfb.org>.

So it would basically be 3 emails for each bill that look like this:

To: Congressman John Doe / Senator Jane Doe
Cc: Edward Shaham, Jim McCollum, Justin “Moneybags” Salisbury, Derek Manners
Subject: Please Cosponsor HR #### / S ####

If you also live in Joe Courtney’s district, please thank him for cosponsoring.

That’s my promise. Since we’re already so good at doing our part in Connecticut, the Federationists in Connecticut ought to have no problem making me pay out over $100. If anyone else wants to join me in this same pledge, I will be proud to report how much I pay out.

Hope to read your messages soon!

Justin

Justin M. Salisbury, MA, NOMC, NCRTB, NCUEB
Committee on Automobile and Pedestrian Safety
National Federation of the Blind
Email: President at Alumni.ECU.edu<mailto:President at Alumni.ECU.edu>
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=325734822
Twitter: @SalisburyJustin

“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”

William Butler Yeats

From: Ct-nfb [mailto:ct-nfb-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Esther Levegnale via Ct-nfb
Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2016 10:29 AM
To: NFB of Connecticut Mailing List <ct-nfb at nfbnet.org<mailto:ct-nfb at nfbnet.org>>
Cc: Esther Levegnale <elevegnale at sbcglobal.net<mailto:elevegnale at sbcglobal.net>>
Subject: Re: [Ct-nfb] Hi

hi, Gary I glad to help

Sent From Esther's Amazing and Awesome iPhone 6+

On Jun 21, 2016, at 11:15 AM, Gary Allen via Ct-nfb <ct-nfb at nfbnet.org<mailto:ct-nfb at nfbnet.org>> wrote:
I do not need help for myself, but you can help others.

On Monday, June 20, 2016, Esther Levegnale via Ct-nfb <ct-nfb at nfbnet.org<mailto:ct-nfb at nfbnet.org>> wrote:
Hey, Gary!  Do you need help doing your pledge?  I wasn't quite sure if you were addressing just me or the whole list!  Sorry about that!

Esther

Sent From Esther's Amazing and Awesome iPhone 6+

> On Jun 20, 2016, at 8:48 PM, Gary Allen via Ct-nfb <ct-nfb at nfbnet.org<javascript:;>> wrote:
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> It is getting close to the GHO. I am willing to do what ever it takes to get get a contribution to the birdies for charity.
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