[nfbmi-talk] Fw: Awards ceremony

[joe harcz Comcast]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: joe harcz Comcast 
To: Michigan Comm for the Blind Vision 20/20 List 
Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2011 3:52 PM
Subject: Re: Awards ceremony


Say how come the bigtime media people didn't come out with press releases prior to this even and concurrent with it for that matter.

As a former reporter I find this appalling.

Why do taxpayers pay for communications experts when they cannot answer direct questions or even promote these types of events with the public let alone other media?

Oh, sorry forgot myself for a moment, Tierney is only about "spin control", censorship contrary to all notions of journalism let alone the First Amendment and all that. What the heck was I thinking anyways huh?

By the way I actually made my way in this world as a paid reporter and I actually have a degree in communications. I actually took Media Law.

I'm not smoke and mirrors. I'm not fluff and nuttier. I'm not self-serving taxpayer paid goobers who sit and collide and spew over each other in these demonstrable forms while letting the naked emperor, Pat Cannon get stroked over and over again for his violations of law and equity in demonstrable form over years.

I'm someone who has exposed both the brilliance and some waste, fraud, and corruption in the space program. I'm someone who has exposed waste, fraud, and corruption from both parties in Houston Texas. I'm someone who has gone into issues of facts, deeds and practices of public officials in other venues. I've never seen the likes of this sort of utter crappola over years.



Oh my what a bunch of self serving and highly paid hacks we have right at the top of the MCB. In fact the higher this organization goes the less accountable and the more out of touch with utter reality it is.

Spin this stuff all you want. By the way where in the heck is that IL manual that both I and RSA has for and indeed required?

Holy smoke guess MCB isn't so good about other deadlines and that includes those required by RSA which pays your paycheck and indeed those of scofflaws like Cannon, Robertson, Jones and other pathetic wretches who sit around and scoff at all of us and then vilify the very people not only of whom they are to serve but who pay their paychecks.

If you all don't like accountability then I'll ask you all this: "Why the heck don't you just resign and get a job in the private sector?"


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Luzenski, Sue (LARA) 
  To: MCB2020-L at LISTSERV.MICHIGAN.GOV 
  Sent: Friday, October 21, 2011 2:09 PM
  Subject: Awards ceremony


  I just came back from the annual awards ceremony where MCB honors clients, community partners and employers who have done extraordinary things in the last year.  What a great event - there's always stories that bring tears to my eyes and staff do a wonderful job of telling the "rest of the story", not just talking about the end success but all the triumphs and stumbles along the way.  

   

  This year there was an IL client who is 71, was afraid that he would end up in a nursing home because of blindness and is now advocating for the Commission and handing out his own business cards, a daycare assistant director who called the Commission just so she could find someone to empathize with her condition and found employment and a counselor who she now calls a friend, an employer who hired 5 clients between the two counties that he has worked in since coming in contact with the Commission and a couple individuals volunteering their time to instruct in O & M and technology.  

   

  Great job everyone on connecting with all the recipients on whatever level necessary to bring great success to MCB clients and good job Susan for a very successful event!! Those are definitely the kinds of meetings I could attend on a regular basis.  

   

  Sue Luzenski

  Management Assistant to the Director

  Michigan Commission for the Blind

  201 N. Washington Square

  P.O. Box 30652

  Lansing, MI  48909

  517-335-4265 desk

  517-335-5140 fax

  luzenskis at michigan.gov