[nfbmi-talk] contacting mcb commissioners from mcb web site

[joe harcz Comcast]

Actually the bios are on the web site. But one must link to that on the 
site.

Joe
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Christine Boone" <Christine_Boone at comcast.net>
To: "'NFB of Michigan Internet Mailing List'" <nfbmi-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Monday, September 13, 2010 11:39 AM
Subject: Re: [nfbmi-talk] contacting mcb commissioners from mcb web site


> Wow, so what happened to the biographies on these guys?  It is small 
> wonder
> that I continue to meet people like the man who stopped his car in a hotel
> parking lot the other day to ask me if there was any organization around
> that could really help blind people.  This man told me that his brother is
> blind now, and that he signed up with the Commission 4 years ago.  He went
> on to say that these have been 4 years of unreturned phone calls,
> frustration and incompetence on the part of the Commission and his brother
> is no closer to being self-sufficient or employed now, than he was then. 
> He
> is just older and the whole family is more sad, frustrated and wondering 
> if
> there is any kind of future that is possible for this blind man.
>
> In all my life, having lived in 5 states as a working adult, I have not 
> ever
> had so many people express the frustration and complete lack of confidence
> in the blindness rehabilitation agency that I have found here in Michigan.
> Talk is nothing more than noisy air if it does not signify something that 
> is
> real, actual or true.  The word "biography" on the Commission's website is
> just taking up space if there is no actual biography written there.  The
> word itself signifies nothing.  Pat Cannon talks a great deal about an
> agency that exceeds requirements for openness.  He is continually 
> beginning
> his statements with the words "in the interest of full disclosure".  Alas
> the only place that such openness and full disclosure exist is in the mind
> of the speaker.  No matter how many times the words are repeated, they 
> will
> continue to do nothing but take up space in the air unless some action is
> taken to implement what is said.  It is not hard to run an agency that is
> truly open, or to comply with the law, if an administrator is honest and
> capable of acting in good faith.
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> Subject: [nfbmi-talk] contacting mcb commissioners from mcb web site
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> MCB Commissioner Page MCB Web Site link:
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> http://www.michigan.gov/dleg/0,1607,7-154-28077_28313_34884-64967--,00.html
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> MCB Commissioners
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> The Michigan Commission for the Blind (MCB) is pleased to present its five
> governor-appointed commission board members:
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> MCB Commission Chair Jo Ann Pilarski
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> Ms. Jo Ann Pilarski, MCB Commission Chair
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> Biography
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> E-mail:
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> pilarskij at charter.net
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> U.S.P.S. mail:  c/o Sue Luzenski, Michigan Commission for the Blind, P.O.
> Box 30652, 201 N. Washington Square, Lansing, MI 48909
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> MCB Commission Vice Chair Michael Geno
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> Mr. Michael Geno, MCB Commission Vice Chair
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> Biography
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> E-mail:
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> luzenskis at michigan.gov
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> Phone:  (810) 982-0717 (Call only during business daylight hours, please.)
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> U.S.P.S. mail:  c/o Sue Luzenski, Michigan Commission for the Blind, P.O.
> Box 30652, 201 N. Washington Square, Lansing, MI 48909
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> MCB Commissioner John C. Scott
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> Mr. John C. Scott, MCB Commissioner
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> Biography
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> E-mail:
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> jcscot at sbcglobal.net
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> Phone:  (313) 567-7742
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> U.S.P.S. mail:  c/o Sue Luzenski, Michigan Commission for the Blind, P.O.
> Box 30652, 201 N. Washington Square, Lansing, MI 48909
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> MCB Commissioner Geraldine Taeckens
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> Ms. Geraldine G. Taeckens, MCB Commissioner
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> Biography
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> E-mail:
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> geri.taeckens at isahealthfund.org
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> Phone:  (906) 635-3439
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> U.S.P.S. mail:  c/o Sue Luzenski, Michigan Commission for the Blind, P.O.
> Box 30652, 201 N. Washington Square, Lansing, MI 48909
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> MCB Commissioner Margaret Wolfe
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> Ms. Margaret Wolfe, MCB Commissioner
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> Biography
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> E-mail:
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> margwolfe at usa.net
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> Phone:  (517) 335-4265
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> U.S.P.S. mail:  c/o Sue Luzenski, Michigan Commission for the Blind, P.O.
> Box 30652, 201 N. Washington Square, Lansing, MI 48909
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