[il-talk] Excerpt from President Riccobono's Notebook

[Mary Lou Grunwald]

Hi denise, Ed Birmingham Marco Giannotti Donnie Anderson and a new graduating trainee will be attending the fly in

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> On 8 May 2017, at 9:07 PM, denise avant via IL-Talk <il-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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> Hello all,
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> President Riccobono puts out a President's Notebook each week. I just want
> to highlight one of them. While Illinois is not being called on to act, I
> thought we should be aware of some serious issues facing blind venders.
> Please see below.
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> ****There is a National Federation of the Blind Fly-In in Washington, DC, on
> May 23, organized by the National Association of Blind Merchants, a Division
> of the NFB. The purpose is to target key congressional committee members. It
> is not essential that every state is represented. The committee members we
> are targeting are the states listed at the end of this article, so it is
> most critical to have members from those states.
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> There are three issues we hope to address: 
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> 1.                The Department of Defense's effort to promulgate rules
> that will effectively eliminate the Randolph-Sheppard priority for military
> dining contracts.  
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> 2.                HR 1990 that would commercialize interstate rest areas
> displacing almost four hundred blind entrepreneurs who now service vending
> machines at the rest areas.  
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> 3.                The Veterans Administration's refusal to recognize the
> Randolph-Sheppard priority at many VA facilities.  
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> Please contact and coordinate with Nicky Gacos, who is our merchants
> division president, if someone from your state wants to attend. He can be
> reached at nickycolorado at netscape.net <mailto:nickycolorado at netscape.net>
> or (908) 464-5359.  
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> The states we are targeting are Rhode Island, Mississippi, Nebraska,
> Arkansas, South Dakota, Iowa, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Michigan,
> Washington, Minnesota, Kansas, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, Wisconsin, and West
> Virginia.
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> Denise R. Avant, President
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> National Federation of the Blind of Illinois
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> Live the life you want.
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> For more information about NFBI, 
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> Go to www.nfbofillinois.org.
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