[nfbmi-talk] Straight Stuff

Sat Mar 19 23:04:37 UTC 2011

By the way I think the Hill case starts Monday and aside from the untold 
tens of thousands of dollars already lost to consumers in legal defense and 
lost staff time on this travesty I think this case will cost the Commission 
(i.e. consumers) at very least the $500,000 recomended for settlement to 
begin with.

Their attorney has a good track record in winning just settlements in 
similar cases.

I sincerely hope that Dave gets justice and at a minimum the remedies set 
forth in the Civil Service decision.

It should have been more in my opinion. But, again it goes, just as you said 
to eventually losing services for people.

It is all so sad and trully pathetic.

And the buck must stop at the top.

Peace,

Joe

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mary Ann Robinson" <brightsmile1953 at comcast.net>
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Sent: Saturday, March 19, 2011 3:32 PM
Subject: Re: [nfbmi-talk] Straight Stuff

> Larry, Christine and Joe, I couldn't agree more.  I pray that the 
> commission board will begin to see the light soon!  Blind people in this 
> state deserve to be treated with dignity and respect and they need to 
> begin receiving quality services now
>
> How many more students will be frustrated?  How many more jobs will be 
> lost? How long will the abominable unjust treatment of competent blind 
> staff  and consumers continue?  How many more thousands of dollars will be 
> spent on grievances, hearings and arbitration cases in the BEP before the 
> commission board takes steps to clean house at the commission and replace 
> incompetent and unqualified staff with employees who will provide blind 
> staff and operators with the respect, services, support and assistance 
> they deserve?
>
> Mary Ann Robinson !
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "joe harcz Comcast" <joeharcz at comcast.net>
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> Sent: Saturday, March 19, 2011 9:01 AM
> Subject: Re: [nfbmi-talk] Straight Stuff
>
>
>> Hi Chris,
>>
>> It would be interesting to share the shenigans of King and Zanger at the 
>> meeting as blind folks couldn't see, literally what they were doing.
>>
>> Great for Lydia and Doug to point it out.
>>
>> Wow, I thought justice was supposed to be blind and I though MCB was for 
>> the blind and not the Attorney General's office as a sort of extra-legal 
>> overseer. Oh, and might I add what Assistent A.G. Michael King doesn't 
>> know about the Rehab Act is a lot. That is clear from his legal breifs in 
>> the Eagle case. I trully think that over all the A.G.'s office really 
>> also wishes to effectively privatize the BEP program or take other means 
>> to eliminate the preference.
>>
>> Joe
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Christine Boone" <christine_boone at comcast.net>
>> To: "NFB of Michigan Internet Mailing List" <nfbmi-talk at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Friday, March 18, 2011 11:40 PM
>> Subject: Re: [nfbmi-talk] Straight Stuff
>>
>>
>>> Right on Larry!  It was good to see you today at the meeting.  Horrible 
>>> to sit through was that Meeting, but our Larry Posont did us proud! 
>>> Lydia and John were great and up-standing too.
>>>
>>> Public comments were fantastic , with special commendations going to 
>>> Fred Wurtzel and Dave Robinson.
>>> Pat Cannon knows how to talk, and he does that very well indeed, but as 
>>> Johnny Cash says, What's done in the dark shall be brought to the light 
>>> and it is high time that a little light was shed on this smooth tongued 
>>> man who has robbed so many honest, hard-working, blind people of so 
>>> much.
>>> May the Lord bless and protect those who seek to do right by the blind 
>>> citizens of Michigan.
>>>
>>>
>>> Christine
>>>
>>> On Mar 17, 2011, at 8:56 PM, Larry D. Keeler wrote:
>>>
>>>> I have read the article posted about Larry's appointment.  Yah, it sure 
>>>> is a bunch of hogwash!  I only recently became involved with our NFB 
>>>> colleagues because I got tired of having to get hastled because I 
>>>> wanted to do what everyone wants to do!  You know, have a job, raise a 
>>>> family, go to church or the bar, walk down the street with pride 
>>>> wheather I use a dog or cane, which frequently do both and occasionally 
>>>> go fishing or cook for other folks!  I want to do these things because 
>>>> that's what people do, not because I want to have folks think that I'm 
>>>> really different! Well, I am but not for that reason!  That has 
>>>> something to do with my personality or something!  Any way, when I was 
>>>> an opporator, Fred Wurtzel was my supervisor and even though he and I 
>>>> sometimes sort of dissaggreed, he treated me well and I never got the 
>>>> feeling that he was being sneaky in any way.  Larry was also a 
>>>> colleague in Bep as well. I admired the way he does business because he 
>>>> always seems to shoot straight from the hip.  It seems that with Mr. 
>>>> Cannon the shannanigans are to be expected and we sure need to have 
>>>> someone to make his circumloqutions clear to us! Now that I am becoming 
>>>> active, I will look up to Fred and Larry and try to do what they do! 
>>>> Also, because they are so much older than me!  So, let the fun begin!
>>>> Intelligence is always claimed but rarely proven!
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