[Nfb-greeley] The day at the capital

[Dora Lopez]

That's awesome, thanks for the update.

Dora

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From: Nfb-greeley [mailto:nfb-greeley-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of
Christopher Schulte
Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2013 5:29 PM
To: nfb-greeley at nfbnet.org
Subject: [Nfb-greeley] The day at the capital

Today, february 27, 2013, was the NFB of Colorado's day at the capital. 
As a member of the Greeley chapter, and someone who was lucky enough to be
able to attend because I am currently at the Colorado Center For The Blind,
I was actually able to speak to a couple of legislators that represented
Weld County. Representative Dave Young, and Senator Greg Brophy. The
representatives were all in session, so we left information with their staff
members. The senators that we met with were for the most part, in their
offices, and we were able to have dialogues with them directly. We discussed
accessible standardized testing for k-12 grade students, the continued
funding for NFB news line, as well as audio information network of Colorado,
and the issue of the tremendous lack of public transportation in rural parts
of the state. One of the representatives that we spoke with with, as well as
one of the senators were on their respective transportation committees, as
well as one of the representatives was on the education committee. All in
all, it was an extremely productive morning, and we got all of the issues
across that we were wanting to educate the legislators about. We were not
necessarily rejected by anyone, however, some legislators seemed a bit less
receptive then others. The bottom line is, we went to the capital, and our
voices were heard, and I was happy to be a part of it.
Chris Schulte

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