[Nfb-idaho] FW: Rest Area Commercialization- Write Your Member of Congress

[Colleen McFadden]

From: Beth Cunningham [mailto:bcunningham at icbvi.idaho.gov] 
Sent: Friday, August 04, 2017 7:00 AM



 

Begin forwarded message:

From: Terry C Smith <terrysmith at epbfi.com>
Date: August 3, 2017 at 11:21:06 PM MDT
To: Terry Smith <terrysmith at epbfi.com>
Subject: Rest Area Commercialization- Write Your Member of Congress

Dear Randolph-Sheppard Stakeholder: As we have told you over the last few
weeks, momentum is growing for commercialization of our interstate rest
areas. A bill has been introduced in the House of Representatives. The
President's proposed budget for FY 2018 communicated support for the idea.
The infrastructure bill that will presumably be introduced next year is
expected to include the option of commercialization of the rest areas
through public private partnerships. Almost 400 blind entrepreneurs could
lose their businesses. The threat is real.

 

We need your help in preventing this from happening. We need for you to
contact your members of Congress today to tell them you oppose
commercialization of the interstate rest areas. We've made it easy for you.
Go to the link below:

 

 <https://nfb.constituentvoice.net/nfbaction>
https://nfb.constituentvoice.net/nfbaction

 

and send a letter to your two U.S. Senators and House member. The website
will automatically find your members for you. It is as simple as 1-2-3-4.

 

1.  Review the letter on the website that has been drafted for you to send;

2.  Fill in all of the blanks with your contact information;

3.  Click on "Preview Letters";

4.  Click on "Send All Letters"

 

It couldn't be any easier.

 

But don't stop there:

 

1.  Get all of your friends and family members to send letters;

2.  Poste the link on your Facebook Page or Twitter account and encourage
followers to help out the cause;

3.  Contact your member of Congress' local office and ask for a meeting when
they are home in a few weeks for the summer recess. We will be sharing
talking points for such meetings or you can go to our website at
www.blindmerchants.org <http://www.blindmerchants.org/>  to review
them.Talking points will be up soon.  

 

We need every U.S. Senator and member of Congress to receive as many letters
as possible and we need them from as many different addresses as possible.
If every blind entrepreneur sends a letter and gets 4 other people to do the
same, we will generate over 10,000 letters. We can beat that.





Nicky Gacos, President

NABM 





Don't sit on the sidelines. Get involved

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