[nfbmi-talk] low crimes and misdemeanors

Joe Sontag suncat0 at gmail.com
Thu Jun 3 03:33:16 UTC 2010


Wow! I love it and fully agree! Even as uncle Pat is passively trying to destroy me financially, I say Mr. Harcz's purely on topic 
here.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Larry Posont" <president.nfb.mi at gmail.com>
To: "NFBofMichigan List" <nfbmi-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2010 20:22
Subject: [nfbmi-talk] low crimes and misdemeanors


>I know everyone gets tired of all Joe  Harcz's Commission stuff, but this is right on!
> Larry Posont
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "joe harcz Comcast" <joeharcz at comcast.net>
> To: "blind democracy List" <blind-democracy at octothorp.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2010 3:48 PM
> Subject: [nfbmi-talk] low crimes and misdemeanors at mcb
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> Low Crimes and Misdemeanors
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> Colleagues:
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> Note the following section from the RSA Fiscal Year 2009 Monitoring
> Protocols:
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> "While only RSA staff will carry out monitoring activities, the review
> process is supported and strengthened by collaboration with key state agency
> staff, as well as other stakeholders.  Input will be solicited from the
> State Rehabilitation Councils (SRC), SILCs, Client Assistance Programs,
> consumer groups, service providers and other stakeholders whenever
> appropriate."
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> Now, I'd like to openly ask if there is even one consumer let alone any
> consumer organization that was involved with the Michigan Commission for the
> Blind monitoring? In fact the answer is: "No". and, to this very date, even
> the members of the Michigan commission for the Blind board are still
> clueless let alone not engaged. In fact in the so-called Special Meeting of
> the MCB Board of May 3, 2010 where the commissioners went into closed
> session for the purpose of discussing their rolls and responsibilities among
> other illegal and inane things everyone commented in open session later that
> they haven't even seen the preliminary monitoring report issued in September
> of 2009 by RSA let alone be engaged during the process. Moreover they
> clearly are in the dark about the required action plans and other
> "rebuttals" to that monitoring, let alone any real budgetary information or
> issues with same.
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> Now, the public at large has been illegally prevented from seeing this
> critical information through numerous abuses and violations of the Michigan
> Freedom of Information Act. And these people also include the very consumer
> groups referenced like say the National Federation of the Blind of Michigan,
> or Advocates for the Blind, or the Michigan Council of the Blind and
> Visually Impaired for that matter.
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> A commission by law, and I'm speaking of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 is
> supposed to be "autonomous" and "consumer driven". Ours isn't even
> "re-active", because it generally doesn't even request timely and accessible
> information in which to exercise its responsibilities or it doesn't get it
> even when requested. In fact it just dawned on the Commissioners at this May
> 3 meeting that they have a roll in developing and actually writing policy.
> Wow, what a revelation eh?
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> Moreover, watchdogs and consumer organizations once again are routinely
> denied public information.
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> By the way these are more than civil matters or allegations for knowing
> violations of the Freedom of Information Act by public officials and
> violations of the Michigan Open Meetings Act (which MCB also has violated)
> are also misdemeanors and thus criminal acts.
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> It certainly is a crime in the truest sense of that word what Patrick Cannon
> has done in denying access to the process and even information which in turn
> has led to firing of qualified staff who are blind, fundamental violations
> of civil rights of consumers, and the whole plethora of activities that have
> now jeopardized the very existence of the Michigan Commission for the Blind.
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> Fundamentally though the exclusion of consumers and consumer organizations
> from the beginning through the conclusion of the monitoring process to this
> very day on its findings and actions to date is typical of the abuse of
> power that has been going on during the reign of terror by this agency
> director against the very people he is charged to serve with a $118,000 plus
> salary to boot. Well I guess he figured out how to get one man who is blind
> quality employment with only an Associates Degree and a whole lot of spin as
> credentials.
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> Since he is grossly  unqualified by the fact that he has no frontline
> experience with the rehabilitation of people who are blind, let alone only
> having a passing acquaintence with skills of blindness like say Braille or
> independent travel,  I'm surprised that he didn't appoint himself as the new
> director of the MCB Training Center and hog up that position and salary for
> himself.  Along with his duties as MCB Director and State of Michigan
> Americans with disabilities Act coordinator position this could be just
> another job he can't do to add to his resume, and, of course precious
> pension, let alone his benighted legacy
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> Wow, why doesn't Cannon just fire everyone on the Commission and staff of
> the Commission and cut out all that nasty middle person stuff? Oh, no he
> couldn't do that for then he wouldn't have some convenient scape goat to
> blame when the bovine scatology hits the proverbial fan.
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> Joe Harcz
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> June 2, 2010
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> (Still awaiting openness, transparency, inclusion, accessibility, and
> accountability.)
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