[nabs-l] H.B. 2834: Closing the Door on the Future ofBlind Children

[Antonio Guimaraes]

You can't get the spotlight?

Where is a position from NFB National Office? Why not encourage the blind of 
the nation to flood legislative, and governor's offices with letters and 
phone calls? what about journalists, wouldn't they be interested in a story 
like this one?

Antonio M. Guimaraes Jr.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "T. Joseph Carter" <carter.tjoseph at gmail.com>
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Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2009 2:30 AM
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] H.B. 2834: Closing the Door on the Future ofBlind 
Children


> State sovereignty.  They don't have to have the school if they can provide 
> the services.  Of course, the services are inadequate already, and they've 
> just been cut even further.
>
> This is a land grab.  There is a back-room deal brewing here between 
> special interests and lawmakers.  We can't seem to get the spotlight to 
> stay on these people long enough to make them accountable.
>
> Joseph
>
> On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 09:59:15PM -0600, clinton waterbury wrote:
>> Wow...  How can they do this in the name of money?  It seems like the 
>> future of the blind already rests in the hands of rehab councelers in 
>> some cases, and this bill would open up the door for the future of the 
>> blind in general, only it would be in the hands of the legeslature.  If I 
>> were one of the students or parents of the students at the Origon school 
>> for the blind I would be highly ticked off at the whole thing, and would 
>> take to the federal level, and there would be a hell of a fight.
>
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