[nfbmi-talk] Faith Meadows Letter

[fred olver]

I have listened for months about the trials and tribulations of the Michigan 
Commission for the Blind. I have heard folks praised. I have heard folks 
bashed. I have heard people's abilities defamed and their reputations called 
in to question, but what I haven't heard suggested, which I am going to do 
is to ask if the present leadership of the MCB is so bad, why don't you do 
something about it rather than hurl insults ineuendo and accusations at it. 
Certainly as an appointee with a boss somewhere within the political empire 
which is the state this person or these people who are making such bad 
decisions for blind folks ought to be able to be recalled or removed from 
their position. If you feel you have a case, then put it together and 
present it in a public forum where the press and others in political office 
will have to take note of how powerfully you present your position. Site the 
Rehab acts and other laws which you feel have been violated. Show what the 
violations are and when they occured. Send out a press release stating your 
position and why you have taken that position. Let's stop calling names, 
hurling epithets and move forward. All this name-calling is getting long 
since boring, tiring and oftentimes to no avail. Let's take a stand and make 
it stick. Let's show how strong we are and what we stand for and gain 
further respect for what we know and believe to be right, for ourselves and 
those who will come after us.


Fred Olver
----- 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 25, 2011 10:00 PM
Subject: Re: [nfbmi-talk] Faith Meadows Letter


> It is easy to do Larry when you owe your job to the patronage of Patrick 
> D. Cannon.
>
> It is easy to make distinctions when one holds a job over one's head.
>
> But, isn't that what patronage is all about?
>
> Now, before one gets on me for bashing Cannon I'll ask this: has he even a 
> college degreee?
>
> That should be a simple enough question to answer.
>
> I mean that's kind of a yes or no sort of thing isn't it?
>
> Then I'd ask if he can find his way to the bathroom all by himself for 
> that might be a pre-requsite for something or other.
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Larry D. Keeler" <lkeeler at comcast.net>
> To: "NFB of Michigan Internet Mailing List" <nfbmi-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Sunday, September 25, 2011 8:42 PM
> Subject: [nfbmi-talk] Faith Meadows Letter
>
>
>> The thing that bothers me Joe is that she was a chapter President here in 
>> Ann Arbor before I took up with y'all!  Seems like she would have learned 
>> and taught our philofophy!  Also, how can she talk like that when she is 
>> in charge of teaching other blind folks how to live and function!  It 
>> seems to me that if you are supposed to teach someone that it is ok to be 
>> blind and obtain skills it would be a kick in the backside to learn that 
>> the one doing the teaching thinks that all you'll amount to is a 
>> bloodsucking leech!
>> Intelligence is always claimed but rarely proven!
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