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<p class="MsoNormal">Fellow Federationists:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">If you care about the blind vendors whose jobs are being threatened and want to help, being able to find your legislators is probably important, isn’t it?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">This link allows you to input your address and then get information on who your state-level legislators are and how to contact them:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">http://www.cga.ct.gov/asp/menu/cgafindleg.asp <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On the student division call tonight, I’ll be asking members who their state-level legislators are and making notes of who we expect to cover. I’d like to challenge all chapter presidents to do this with chapter members at the next chapter
meeting, too! Now that we have Tammy running the at-large chapter, even I can’t say I don’t have a local chapter in the Connecticut affiliate.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Who says we can’t be organized for legislation?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">It’s that easy.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Happy Second Day of Spring!<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Justin<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Justin Salisbury - Running Thunder Phoenix<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Graduate Student<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Professional Development and Research Institute on Blindness<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Louisiana Tech University<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Email: <a href="mailto:President@Alumni.ECU.edu">
President@Alumni.ECU.edu</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Twitter: @SalisburyJustin<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">“One of the continuing themes that the majority culture never wants to hear is that the Indians want to be Indians.”<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Ada Deer (Menominee), 1984<o:p></o:p></p>
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