[nfbmi-talk] You Can Help

Marcus Simmons MarcusSimmons at comcast.net
Sun Sep 12 15:03:30 UTC 2010


Did these emails do to the MCB board? If not, they should have...

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "joe harcz Comcast" <joeharcz at comcast.net>
To: "NFB of Michigan Internet Mailing List" <nfbmi-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Sunday, September 12, 2010 7:25 AM
Subject: Re: [nfbmi-talk] You Can Help


> Yes, and the commissioners already have many reports or should have them 
> under the Rehab Act. They also have financials, including the operating 
> budget through the first three quarters of the yer. Something that has 
> been denied to this requester and something that was openly promised by 
> Mr. Cannon at the budget meeting of July 26, as well as the data you are 
> requesting here Fred.
>
> What happened to the promise of delivery of in information required by 
> several laws? Cannon threw that on the dog pile of requests for 
> information called the Michigan Freedom of Information Act and DELEG's 
> abuse of that law and process.
>
> Anyway well written Fred and thank you for it.
>
> sincerely,
>
> Joe
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Fred Wurtzel" <f.wurtzel at comcast.net>
> To: "'Jo Anne Pilarski MCB, Chair'" <pilarskij at CHARTER.NET>; "'Geri 
> Taeckens'" <geri.taeckens at isahealthfund.org>
> Cc: "'NFB of Michigan Internet Mailing List'" <nfbmi-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Saturday, September 11, 2010 10:03 PM
> Subject: [nfbmi-talk] You Can Help
>
>
>> Hello,
>>
>>
>>
>> I am writing to try, once again, to appeal to you, the Board, to consider
>> how process affects relationships.  I applaud the idea of reviewing the 
>> data
>> and data collection within MCB.  State and federal rules and procedures
>> already require significant data collection.  As I said in an earlier
>> message to you, Geri, it seems simpler to review what is already being 
>> done
>> and add in what is missing.
>>
>>
>>
>> Second, the MCB could simply post the data that it collects on the 
>> internet.
>> Again, this would allow anyone interested to look for the data they are
>> interested in and then request the addition of data they would like to 
>> see
>> collected.  Furthermore, such data as the RSA-911 and RSA-15 reports are
>> public information and thus ought to be widely distributed to interested
>> parties as state and federal law requires.  To withhold or resist sharing
>> this information creates a sense of exclusion, disrespect and possibly a
>> violation of the law.
>>
>>
>>
>> My reason for writing is to ask if you, the MCB Board, can explain this
>> behavior.  It seems counterproductive, self-defeating and will lead to 
>> more
>> conflict and distrust.  In the end, we will gain access to public
>> information, anyway.  Collaboration, openness and inclusion would build
>> positive relationships, reduce distrust and make administration easier 
>> and
>> more effective.  So I ask, why?  Why alienate your constituents.  Why 
>> create
>> a paternalistic and arrogant aura?  I believe that I know that is not 
>> your
>> personalities or those of your colleagues on the Board.  What will be 
>> gained
>> from intentionally increasing distrust?
>>
>>
>>
>> I, along with many of my friends and colleagues are committed to seeing 
>> P.A.
>> 260 coming to full bloom.  Right now, we are at the lowest point in
>> consumer/agency relationships since the passage of the law.  When we look
>> back some years from now, we will point to this episode as the time that
>> consumers finally stepped up to fully implement the law.  We will look 
>> back
>> and see that this conflict helped us to create systems and processes that
>> put consumers, not bureaucrats, in the forefront of the reason for the 
>> MCB
>> Until then we will struggle together, you and us.  Until love, reason and
>> good sense rise to be our mutual guideposts for how we relate people will
>> suffer by being unfairly fired, forced out, smeared and generally 
>> mistreated
>> just because the bureaucracy, temporarily, has the power.  Power is 
>> always
>> temporary.  The day will come when bullying, intimidation and 
>> mismanagement
>> will cease.  Consumers will be there to see it and celebrate the victory 
>> of
>> reason over tyranny.  You can reverse this, today.  For my part, I and 
>> most
>> of the people I associate with, yearn for the time when we can sit down
>> together in civil discourse to make Michigan a great place to be blind. 
>> I
>> take no pleasure in these circumstances and I am saddened with the stress 
>> in
>> my fellowship with many people who I really like.  Justice and freedom 
>> come
>> at a cost, I Guess.
>>
>>
>>
>> Warm Regards,
>>
>>
>>
>> Fred.
>>
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