[nfbmi-talk] supremacy clause or santa claus

Tue Sep 20 13:08:44 UTC 2011

You know Joe, we need to have help dressing, eating and pooping!  The last 
isn't necessarily facicious!  I went into a small restraunt one time and 
they were going to deny me using there bathroom because they thaught I 
didn't know how to use it!  I had eaten lunch there and so I just told them 
I would do the buisness right there!  I did get to use the facilities but 
have never been back there!
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "joe harcz Comcast" <joeharcz at comcast.net>
To: <nfbmi-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2011 8:35 AM
Subject: [nfbmi-talk] supremacy clause or santa claus

Open Question

All,

We have a lot of talk about diversity in the Michigan Commission for the 
Blind. But, it is still unanswered the issue I brought up at the last MCB 
meeting. Here is a fact: “Each and every Promotional Agent hired during the 
past few years is white, male, and not blind.”

Now, why is that?

In all the searching for vacant posts we couldn’t find even one qualified 
person of color; or even one woman; or, God forbid a qualified person who 
happens to be blind?

I don’t think this is a very good message for a program that is by it’s very 
nature a “priority program”.

I also think openly that it is this very avoidance of implementing 
affirmative action requirements under the Rehab Act that has led to the 
reality where the BEP program actually uses, again in documented fashion 
Rehab Funds to supply jobs not for qualified blind folks, but rather, for 
not qualified non-disabled and not accountable so-called temporary 
operators. Where are the “set asides” for these folks? Where is the 
accounting let alone the accountability? Oh, Cannon in his traditional 
fashion will cite state rules as he’s done in the past. But here as I’ve 
stated Federal law is supposed to trump state law.  Guess no one has read 
the Constitution including the “spending clause or the “Supremacy clause””. 
Cannon sure hasn’t read the Fourteenth Amendement. Anyway his patronage scam 
is clear and he acts as if he is a political “Santa Claus”. I guess he got 
his clauses mixed up a bit. Oh well that’s what we get when a GS 19 can’t 
even acquire a college degree of any type. Oh I’m not an academic snob by 
any means, but it is really ironic that Cannon continually talks about the 
soft bigotry of low expectations but has no expectations or accountability 
about himself. Civil Service and other reforms were supposed to protect us 
from arbitrary, capricious and perfidious actions. Yet, we have a system 
that clearly acts the direct opposite of it’s intended purpose.

And if you all think things are hinky as I do in the BEP program then 
consider how bad things are in the general VR program.

Oh, and if Patrick Cannon wishes to talk about hiring the most qualified I 
would agree. Where are his qualifications?

Sincerely,

Joe

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