[Nfbf-l] Fw: [fcb-l] Fw: [tabi] Re: Fw: comperhensive report of IG's report onDBS attached

[Dan Hicks]

What do I think of this? 

I am extremely leery of anything that comes from a non NFB-list. 

I am just as quick as the next guy to criticize DBS or any other agency that
I feel is doing something wrong, but the IG report does not reveal any
significant mismanagement or wrongdoing on the part of the leadership of
DBS. Read the original report before you start making or forwarding
accusations. 

There is a smear campaign being conducted by persons who are not part of DBS
or NFB. 

We will continue to monitor DBS and its actions. However, right now, there
just appears to be nothing going on warranting the kind of attacks that have
been launched against the agency. 

Dan Hicks, President
NFB of Florida
 
"It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars."

                                                     -Garrison Keillor
 
 

-----Original Message-----
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What do you guys think? RJ
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: wendy.hoss at comcast.net 
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Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2012 10:10 AM
Subject: [tabi] Re: Fw: comperhensive report of IG's report on DBS attached


Good Morning all,

I have been thinking about this report and the more I think about it the
more angry I become.  I am angry that she and her cronies continue to sit
there and get away with this.  If a CEO of a company embezzled money like
this he/she would be in jail right now.  If a company engaged in practices
such harassment and intimidation to create a hostile work environment, they
would be siting in civil court with a big fat law suit.  But there she and
her crew sit free as a bird, free to embezzle more tax payer dollars, free
to harass and destroy the lives of people who dedicated their careers to
helping people with blindness. We can not stand back and watch this happen
or wait for someone else to do our job.  It is our job to stand up for
ourselves, to say we are not going to take it anymore. If people with
disabilities had stood by in the 60s and 70s waiting on someone else to
stand up we would have no rights today, there would no ADA.  They did not
wait, they fought and so we have our civil rights.  Now it is our turn, the
agency that is there to serve us is being robbed and usurped by the CRPs,
she is just their agent.  Good people, your friends in some cases, are being
harassed and intimidated daily because they have been labeled as a problem.
I do not say this purely from reading that report, I lived it.  I refused to
sit in my office at DBS and say nothing about what I saw going on around me,
I reported very similiar matters to the IG 2 years ago and nothing happened.
Nothing happened because only one other person chose to stand with me.  I
also reported what I knew to the FCB president and people with offices in
NFB, neither group spoke up.  Due to my refusal to be quiet, my refusal to
ignore the fact that the CRPs were being paid for work they were not doing,
my refusal to be silent on the issue of the lack of monitoring I had to pay
a high cost, my career and my future and all the years wasted on getting an
education I will never be able to use again.  I too was harassed and
intimidated until I could not take it anymore and I had to leave.  And
beyond that now, no matter how hard I try I can't get another job in my
field.  I gave up everything to stand and fight against what is happening,
to fight against the embezzlement of tax payer dollars, against the abuse of
DBS employees, to stop the flow of money away from the districts and away
from direct services.  If you are tired of your counselor never being able
to get for you what you need to succeed, if you are tired of not having a
choice about who is going to provide training to you, if you are tired of
being a DBS employee who is trampled on daily and made to fell worthless
because you don't work at your local CRP then stand and fight with me.  It
is time to make our voices heard.  I call for FCB and NFB to make a strong
statement in this matter, I call on you to write to your elected officials,
to contact the news media, and if all that doesn't work I say we protest, we
need to act like those fighting for civil rights and bring out the protest
signs and have a rally at the Turlington building. Pass this message on to
your friends around the state, let's get fired up and take out the trash at
DBS!





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