[nfbmi-talk] NFB BREAKING NEWS

[Christine Boone]

Terry, what a great story! You should distribute it to news outlets for sure. 

Boone Christine Sent from my iPhone

On Sep 7, 2013, at 3:08 PM, "Terry D. Eagle" <terrydeagle at yahoo.com> wrote:

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> This is NFB of Michigan Breaking News 
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> State Officials Attempt To Cover-up Lies  
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> An unnamed source within the Nfb of Michigan, identified only as a board
> member, has revealed that on Friday at 1 p.m. state officials pulled the
> plug on a controversial civil service job posting for ten student assistants
> to staff a proposed Tim Horton's coffee shop franchise in the Capitol and
> Anderson House of Representatives office building in downtown Lansing.  The
> job posting was scheduled to close Monday at 5 p.m.
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> "Could it be that state officials are trying to cover-up their lies, in
> which they have  been caught with their hand in the coffee bean jar?",
> questions the anonymous NFB board member.  The question arises following
> statements made by state Licensing and Regulatory Affairs director Steve
> Arwood, denying that plans exist and are moving ahead to establish a well
> known foreign company coffee shop franchise in the two state buildings. 
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> As Arwood walked past a local television news reporter and camera crew, a
> cone of silence descended.  Reporter) Mr. Director, would you help clarify
> what you are trying to do.
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>            "Discussions are underway and no decision has been made," said
> Arwood.
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>            (Reporter) Do you want to put a franchise in there?
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>            "Discussions are underway," replied Arwood.
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>            (Reporter) Is the state going to pay a franchise fee?
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>            "No decisions have been made, Tim," said Arwood.
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> An employee of the Michigan House and a state licensing department official
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>            to talk, too, as they walked into a 2:30 strategy meeting on
> this issue Thursday, as reported by the local news reporter.
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> Arwood's denial that no decisions have been made comes two days after Bob
> Robertson of the Bureau of Services to Blind people, distributed a memo to
> the bureau's staff, announcing the civil service posting for the ten student
> assistant positions to staff the franchise locations at taxpayer expense.
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> There was one state official who did talk, but not on camera. He points out,
> Tim
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>            Horton products would go into a room on the ground floor of the
> capitol, but the
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>            Tim Horton sign would not. Tim Horton employees would not be
> running the operation,
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>            but they would provide training to the visually impaired who
> would.
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>            However, the Tim Horton sign and products could end up in the
> House office building,
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>            right across the street from coffee shop competitor Biggby.
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> The controversy has been a hot topic on media website blogs since the
> planned Tim Horton's franchise news story was aired on Lansing's WLNS six
> o'clock news on Tuesday, said the unnamed NFB board member.  "It should be
> abundantly clear to all that Arwood's comments on Thursday, followed by the
> early pulling of the student assistant position posting, is a deliberate
> attempt to back-peddle and do damage control, for the failure of state
> officials to think through the plan, and anticipate reaction to the plan.",
> added the unnamed NFB board member.    
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> The Director of Services to the Blind and Department of Civil Service
> officials were unavailable for comment on this story because of the weekend.
> Also unavailable for comment was Robert Essenberg, as he is currently in
> Canada for Tim Horton franchise training.  Essenberg is the newly appointed
> state division director of the BADP, hired as a civil service employee at a
> salary in the $100,000 per year range, to oversee operation of the two Tim
> Horton franchise locations at 
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> the Capitol and Anderson House of Representatives office building. 
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