<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><br><br><div dir="ltr">Tom Page<div>President </div><div>National Federation of the blind of Kansas</div><div>316-734-4839</div></div><div dir="ltr"><br>Begin forwarded message:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><b>From:</b> mjmdeuce <mjmdeuce@yahoo.com><br><b>Date:</b> April 4, 2020 at 10:14:28 AM CDT<br><b>To:</b> Tom Page <topage@swbell.net><br><b>Subject:</b> <b>FW: NABM Action Alert</b><br><br></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"><div dir="auto"><font face="sans-serif">Hey Tom,</font></div><div dir="auto"><font face="sans-serif"><br></font></div><div dir="auto"><font face="sans-serif">Could I ask you a favor one more time? Anyway we can get this out to the entire membership? We need as many people as we can to send letters to Congressmen! There is a link in the email below from Terry Smith.</font></div><div dir="auto"><font face="sans-serif"><br></font></div><div dir="auto"><font face="sans-serif">Thanks</font></div><div dir="auto"><font face="sans-serif">Mike Malloy</font></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div id="composer_signature" dir="auto"><div style="font-size:85%;color:#575757" dir="auto">Sent from my Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note8.</div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div><br></div><div style="font-size:100%;color:#000000" dir="auto"><!-- originalMessage --><div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: Terry Smith <terry@merchants-nfb.org> </div><div>Date: 4/3/20 10:47 PM (GMT-06:00) </div><div>To: Terry C Smith <tsmith@nfb.org> </div><div>Subject: NABM Action Alert </div><div><br></div></div>
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<span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; padding-left: 36px;"></span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">As you know, the COVID-19 pandemic has wreaked havoc on our blind entrepr</span><a name="_GoBack"></a><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">eneurs.
Approximately 75% of our blind entrepreneurs have seen their businesses either shut completely down or seriously curtailed. Congress has provided some relief for small businesses but the Randolph-Sheppard Program is unique. We need to let Congress know
that more needs to be done to assist our hard working men and women who feed our government employees every day. </span></p>
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<span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; padding-left: 36px;"></span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Please click on the link below and send letters to the President, both of your U.S. Senators, and </span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">your </span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Member
in the House of Representatives. The Randolph-Sheppard Act authorizes Congress to appropriate funds for the Randolph-Sheppard Program. It never has. We are asking Congress for the first time to appropriate dollars that can be used to provide relief for
our displaced blind entrepreneurs and emergency funding to the states so they can meet their responsibilities as the state licens</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">ing agencies. Go to</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">: </span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"></span><a href="https://blindmerchantsspeakout.org/alert/-urge_congress_to_appropriate_funds_to_help_blind_vendors/message/congress/write?style=webform"><span class="s3" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">https://blindmerchantsspeakout.org/alert/-urge_congress_to_appropriate_funds_to_help_blind_ven</span><span class="s3" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">d</span><span class="s3" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">ors/message/congress/write?style=webform</span></a><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"></span></p>
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<span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">It is simple. Just put in your name and address</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">, click on “</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Preview </span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"></span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Message</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">”
and then hit “Submit” </span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">and your letters will be sent. Act now and let the collective voices of the blind be heard. </span></p>
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<span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Sincerely, </span></p>
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<span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Nicky Gacos, President</span></p>
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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 </span></span><span class="s5" style="line-height: 16.799999237060547px; color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Times; font-style: italic;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="line-height: 25.200000762939453px; font-size: 1.5em;">between
blind people and our dreams. You can live the life you want; blindness is not what holds you back.</span></span></p>
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