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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>To All:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Please consider signing this online petition at Change.Org This is time sensative.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a name="_MailEndCompose"><o:p> </o:p></a></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'>Sincerely,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'>Milton Ota, President<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'>National Federation of the Blind of North Dakota<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'>Web: http://nfbnd.org/<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'>909 8th St., S.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'>Fargo, ND 58103-2723<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'>Cell: (701) 731-0511<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'>E-mail: mota1252@gmail.com<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'>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></span></p><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'></span><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Greetings fellow Legislative Directors,<span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id=AppleMailSignature><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div id=AppleMailSignature><p class=MsoNormal>As you all know, we are trying to ramp up our opposition to and mobilize around H.R. 620. You can see that priority manifested in the most recent Presidential Notebook.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div id=AppleMailSignature><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div id=AppleMailSignature><p class=MsoNormal>To that end, a disability advocate ally I know has created this <a href="http://change.org">change.org</a> petition in opposition to H.R. 620. I urge you all to sign it, share it widely across all of your networks and make it known and available to your affiliate memberships.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div id=AppleMailSignature><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div id=AppleMailSignature><p class=MsoNormal>Here is the link to the petition:<o:p></o:p></p></div><div id=AppleMailSignature><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div id=AppleMailSignature><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><a href="https://www.change.org/p/dara-baldwin-don-t-tread-on-my-ada-oppose-ada-education-reform-act-of-2017-h-r-620">https://www.change.org/p/dara-baldwin-don-t-tread-on-my-ada-oppose-ada-education-reform-act-of-2017-h-r-620</a><br><br><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>In solidarity,<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>~Dylan Hedtler-Gaudette <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Vice-President | National Federation of the Blind of Massachusetts <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Legislative Director | National Federation of the Blind of Massachusetts <o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><o:p> </o:p></p></div></blockquote></div></body></html>