[NFB-Utah] Help for Randolph Sheppard.

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> Dear Friends and family:  
> ​we are working on a second bill to help blind vendors. I could really use your help for a second time around.  This is a different letter than the first one I asked you to send.  I would like to say thank you in advance for the help you will offer and for what you have already done. This is something that is very important to me and your time is appreciated!. It is very important to me that you share this with your friends on social media and any way you can think of and ask them to share this link as well. The more letters we get the better success we will have.. My market is completely closed except for about $20 in sales a day.  I had to leave my employee off.
>  As you know, the COVID-19 pandemic has wreaked havoc on our blind entrepreneurs.  Approximately 75% 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.  It never has.  We are asking Congress for the first time to appropriate dollars that can be 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.  Go to: https://blindmerchantsspeakout.org/alert/-urge_congress_to_appropriate_funds_to_help_blind_vendors/message/congress/write?style=webform
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> It is simple.  Just put in your name and address, click on “Preview Message” and then hit “Submit” and your letters will be sent.  Act now and let the collective voices of the blind be heard.


>  William Black