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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Hello all,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Just a quick update and call to action about our blind parent’s rights bill. Our bill, HB 79, is on the state Senate calendar for tomorrow. Please call your State Senators this evening or tomorrow morning to ask them to support HB 79 to protect the rights of blind parents in Georgia. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>If you need the phone number for your State Senator or if you aren’t sure who your State Senator is, visit:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="https://openstates.org/find_your_legislator/">https://openstates.org/find_your_legislator/</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>To see the full language of the bill an track it’s progress, check out this link:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.legis.ga.gov/legislation/en-US/Display/20192020/HB/79">http://www.legis.ga.gov/legislation/en-US/Display/20192020/HB/79</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Please reach out to Gaylon Tootle if you are able to make it to the capitol tomorrow to sit in the gallery to support our bill as the Senate votes. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>If you have any questions, feel free to reply to the list or reach out to your NFB of GA legislative team, Gaylon, Angela, and Tootle.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Yours in the movement,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Greg Aikens <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.nfbga.org/"><span style='color:#0563C1'>National Federation of the Blind of Georgia</span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Email: <a href="mailto:gaikens@nfbga.org"><span style='color:#0563C1'>gaikens@nfbga.org</span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Cell: (404) 444-8661<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><img border=0 width=271 height=115 style='width:2.8263in;height:1.2013in' id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image002.png@01D4E4BC.7EE776B0" alt="Title: NFB of GA Logowith tag line, "Live the life you want.""><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The National Federation of the Blind knows that blindness is not the characteristic that defines you or your future. Every day we raise the expectations of blind people, because low expectations create obstacles between blind people and our dreams. You can live the life you want; blindness is not what holds you back.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>