[nfbmi-talk] Fw: [Vendorsmi] HB 6006, What Will You Do?

Wed Nov 28 14:01:46 UTC 2012

By the way and just a point of factual information here....

The two sponsers of this are both "Tea Party" Republicans and are notably 
supported by "We the People" for what that information is worth.

The chair of the committee is directly linked to Zimmer in the de-regulatory 
efforts and also has the Restaurant Association as one of his biggest 
contributors.

Regardless, I told folks these types would try to "privatize" everything to 
benefit their own.

This isn't a partisan statement either for I think that Democrats are slime 
too when it comes to the blind and disabled.

Just this regime has taken things to another sick universe.

Man evenEngler didn't do this stuff.

Sigh...

These clowns are like the Borg out of Star Trek, The Next Generation.

You know the sickest thing though?

It is the fact that RSA keeps sending out funds to these scofflaws in spite 
of copious documentation of chronic abuse and violations of the Rehab Act!

And they pour that in to the pockets of sighted, non-disabled hacks!
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Terry Eagle" <terrydeagle at yahoo.com>
To: "'NFB of Michigan Internet Mailing List'" <nfbmi-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2012 8:20 AM
Subject: Re: [nfbmi-talk] Fw: [Vendorsmi] HB 6006, What Will You Do?

> The posted proposed legislation bill was posted in its entirety.  The sole
> purpose is to take jobs away from blind persons.  It was brought about, in
> my opinion, because of the incompetence of BEP management, the failure of
> BEP management and the MCB under Pat Cannon and the Elected Operators'
> Committee to follow the law and program rules, and failure to support good
> BEP traning and jobs for blind persons.  Sighted persons were allowed to
> operate BEP facilities without training, supervision by BEP promotion
> agents, and failure of BEP and Pat Cannon to throw them out of facilities
> they were running down and destroying the business goodwill of the state
> employees and public they were to serve as guests to facilities.  This is 
> no
> better demonstrated than the situation the governor's transition team 
> faced
> at the state library and museum BEP facility.  The transition team
> complained of low product inventory, unwillingness of the sighted operator
> to provide catering, and an I don't care attitude by the sighted operator.
> The solution:  BEP management and Pat Cannon used rehabilitation funds for
> more inventory and a computer and printer, only to have the sighted 
> operator
> further rip-off the BEP by not paying set-aside fees, taxes, and again
> depleting the inventory before leaving the facility.  By then the damage 
> and
> poor image of the BEP and blind persomns had been done.  This scenario has
> been mirrored by other sighted persons and poorly trained blind persons in
> several BEP facilities.  These are the facts and reality, and Ed Rodgers,
> the new BS4BP director, has publicly said that what has happened before
> October 1, 2012 doesn't matter, as he supports administration's attempt to
> take jobs from blind persons, with their WORK TO WELFARE FOR THE BLIND
> attitude and legislation.  Ed Rodgers and Mike Zimmer publicly hide behind
> their statements that state employees cannot speak out and lobby for
> legislation, while quietly behind closed doors they are doing just
> that--pushing legislation to take jobs from blind persons, and move blind
> persons from work to welfare.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From:   Elizabeth Mohnke
> Subject: Re: [nfbmi-talk] Fw: [Vendorsmi] HB 6006, What Will You Do?
>
> It appears as though only a portion of the bill was cited in this email. 
> Is
> there any way someone could either post the bill in its entirety or post a
> link to the bill so it could be read in its entirety? I understand this 
> may
> be the most important portion of the bill, but I would like to be able to
> read it in context with the rest of the bill.
>
> Thanks,
> Elizabeth
>
>
>> HOUSE BILL No. 6006
>> November 8, 2012, Introduced by Reps. Denby and Rogers and referred to 
>> the
>
>> Committee
>> on Government Operations.
>>     A bill to amend 1978 PA 260, entitled
>> "An act to revise and codify the laws relating to blind persons and
>> persons with a visual disability; to create a commission; to
>> prescribe its powers and duties and those of other state agencies
>> relative to blind persons; to provide services, education,
>> training, and assistance to blind persons; to regulate concessions
>> operated by blind persons; to transfer powers, duties, functions,
>> and appropriations; and to repeal acts and parts of acts,"
>> by amending section 10 (MCL 393.360).
>> THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
>>     Sec. 10. (1) This act shall does not apply to a concession
>> operated in connection with the state fair, with the use of state
>> fairgrounds, with a state educational institution, state penal
>> institution, military establishment, armory, or state park, or in a
>> building that is operated by a house of the legislature.
>>     (2) A sighted person operating a concession under contract or
>> lease at the time this act becomes effective shall not be on
>> October 1, 1978 is not required to surrender the rights before the
>> contract or lease expires.
>>     (3) A sighted person operating a concession which that has not
>> been applied for by a blind person may be permitted to continue in
>> charge until the concession is applied for and a qualified blind
>> person is chosen to operate the concession.
>>
>>
>>
>>
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