[nabs-l] Announcing NABS 2014 Candidates Forum

[James Hulme]

to Mikayla: Shafeka Hashash


On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 7:10 PM, Mikayla Gephart <mikgephart at icloud.com>
wrote:

> I am a member of NJABS. Who have you tried to contact?
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> > On Jun 12, 2014, at 7:01 PM, James Hulme via nabs-l <nabs-l at nfbnet.org>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hello, Mary Fernandez,
> >
> >
> > I would like to participate in asking the candidates questions. Please
> > either send me the link to surveymonkey or please send me the moderator
> and
> > his/her contact info. off list. I appreciate all the effort you do for
> NABS
> > in putting together this event for people running for the president of
> > NABS. Justin Salisbury is already one candidate.
> >
> >
> > Who runs NABS in the state of NJ?? Who is the president of New Jersey
> > Assoc. of Blind Students? No one seems to respond to any phone calls made
> > to the NJABS president anymore. I would like to attend their meetings in
> > the future.
> >
> > Anyways, I congratulate you on your change in position in occupation.
> Great
> > job!!
> >
> >
> > Thanks for the informative e-mail you have already sent regarding NABS.
> > Have a wonderful day!!
> >
> > Please respond back and stay in touch.
> >
> >
> > Jimmy Hulme
> > 609-660-0699 (Home)
> > jim.hulme at gmail.com
> > member of NFB of New Jersey since 1998 and member of NJABS since 2007.
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 5:04 PM, Mary Fernandez via nabs-l <
> > nabs-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> >
> >> Dear all,
> >> As we all know, this year during its annual business meeting NABS will
> >> be holding elections. In that spirit, I will be putting together the
> >> NABS 2014 candidates forum, which will be a time and space where the
> >> membership will get to ask questions and the candidates will answer
> >> those questions, thereby letting us know more about themselves and
> >> their vision for the organization.
> >> How it works: candidates must contact me off list, and let me know if
> >> they are intending to run, which position they are intending to run
> >> for, and if they'd like to participate. Note that preference will be
> >> given to presidential candidates, that is, because of time
> >> constraints; we will not be able to have debates for candidates for
> >> each of the positions which will be up this year. The only position
> >> which is certain to have an opportunity for debate will be the
> >> president's position.
> >> In the next few days I will be circulating a link to a Survey Monkey
> >> which will allow anyone who is a member to submit questions they'd
> >> like candidates to answer. We will put those questions into a pool,
> >> and questions will be randomly selected during the forum. That means
> >> that it is possible not all questions will be asked. However, I will
> >> post the questions publicly after the forum, and candidates can choose
> >> to answer them via the list or whichever way they fancy.
> >> So for right now, those of you who are intending to run for the NABS
> >> board, and are comfortable in declaring that intention please email me
> >> at trillian551 at gmail.com.
> >> I am not part of the NABS board, and I will not be running for any
> >> positions, so rest assure, that I will simply be putting this event
> >> together in an impartial and fair way. I will not be moderating, but
> >> will have a respected member of the NFB moderate. The moderator and I
> >> will be the only ones to see the questions before hand; no candidates
> >> will be given any kind of preferential treatment. Please let me know
> >> if you'd like to participate.
> >> Thanks.
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Mary Fernandez
> >> "I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will
> >> forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them
> >> feel."
> >> --
> >> Maya Angelou
> >>
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