[Nfbmo] Jefferson City Seminar results

[DanFlasar at aol.com]

Hi all,
      10 members from the Lewis & Clark  chapter in St. Louis attended the 
2011 Jefferson City Seminar held February 21  and 22 to meet our elected 
representatives to advocate for the  Missouri affiliate's legislative 
initiatives.    Our legislative and budgetary solutions to deficits in accessible  
educational resource and rights of disabled parents were overall very  
well-received.   A sizeable proportion of the lawmakers we met with  are very eager 
and willing to support and cosponsor our legislation, and a  gratifyingly 
significant group of them expressed interest in sponsoring - and  crafting - 
legislative solutions with us in the future.   
 
     Thanks to Brian Wekamp and the Governmental  Affairs Committee for 
providing the framework for what we hope will be a  successful session for the 
Missouri NFB legislation.
 
Lewis & Clark members in attendance were:
Susan Ford, Bill Franklin, Jerry Wilson, Brent Ford, Cari Kness, Dan  
Flasar, Jim Moynihan, Randy Carmack, Diana Dawn and Chris Tisdale.   
 
     I would like to add that the Lewis &  Clark chapter beat all others in 
terms of  providing  the largest  delegation for this years Jeff City 
Seminar, proving once and for all that  motley assemblages of political 
malcontents can be quite effective when  encouraged to march in the same direction.
 
Now, let's go get 'em,
 
Dan Flasar
Lewis & Clark Chapter