[NFB-Idaho] FW: Final Push Contact Congress Today

[Colleen McFadden]

From: Terry Smith [mailto:terry at merchants-nfb.org] 
Sent: Thursday, April 16, 2020 11:50 PM
To: Terry C Smith
Subject: Final Push Contact Congress Today

 

 

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Dear NABM Member:  

 

We need to make one final push to let Congress know we need them to remember us when they consider the next COVID-19 relief package which will be coming up soon.     Based on our conversations with Congressional staffers, we are pleased that they are listening.  But they need to continue to hear from their constituents.  Many of you sent letters the first time we asked.   This is a different letter.  

Approximately 90% of our blind entrepreneurs have seen their businesses either shut completely down or seriously curtailed.  Congress has provided some relief for small businesses but the Randolph-Sheppard Program is unique.  We need to let Congress know that more needs to be done to assist our hard working men and women who feed our government employees every day.  

​Please click on the link below and send letters to the President, both of your U.S. Senators, and your Member in the House of Representatives. The Randolph-Sheppard Act authorizes Congress to appropriate funds for the Randolph-Sheppard Program. To this date Congress has never made such an authorization, therefore we are asking Congress to appropriate dollars for the first time ever.  These funds couldbe used to provide relief for our displaced blind entrepreneurs and emergency funding to the states so they can meet their responsibilities as the state licensing agencies.  

 

It’s as easy as 1-2-3.  

 

1. Go to:  <https://blindmerchantsspeakout.org/alert/-urge_congress_to_appropriate_funds_to_help_blind_vendors/message/congress/write?style=webform> https://blindmerchantsspeakout.org/alert/-urge_congress_to_appropriate_funds_to_help_blind_vendors/message/congress/write?style=webform

 

2. Type in your personal information and then click on “Preview Message”

 

3.  Scroll to the bottom of the page and hit “Send All.”   ​

 

It really is that simple.  Act now and let the collective voices of the blind be heard.  

 

Sincerely, 

 

 

 

Nicky Gacos, President

 

 

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.

 

 

 

 

Sent from my iPhone

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