[Nfbmo] Jefferson City Seminar results

[Gary Wunder]

Hi Randy.  I surely will and thank you for going.

Gary



 ----- Original Message -----
From: Randy Carmack <randycarmack at gmail.com
To: NFB of Missouri Mailing List <nfbmo at nfbnet.org
Date sent: Wed, 23 Feb 2011 23:42:12 -0600
Subject: Re: [Nfbmo] Jefferson City Seminar results

Yes in deed, I also beg everyone who did not attend to contact 
your
legislature in mass..  We need for the whole state to know that 
it is NOT OK
to take our children simply because we are blind.

Gary, I would like to continue to volunteer in any way to further 
this
effort.  Please respond if there is anything at all that I can 
do.

Thanks,
Randy Carmack

On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 12:12 PM, Shelia Wright 
<sbwright95 at att.net> wrote:

 A salute to everyone who participated in the 2011 Jeff City 
Legislative
 Seminar.  The presence of the Lewis and Clark Chapter was 
awesome.  Jeff City
 had either nine or ten working,  as well.  Although their 
distance to travel
 is much less than some of us, their commitment warrents a big 
thank you as
 well.   Kansas City had 7 this year and  Columbia had 4.  I 
think this was
 the largest and most enthusiastic turn out in many years.

 I know that the chapters who scheduled appointments in advance 
saw all but
 a handful of the legislators assigned to their chapters 
directly.  This may
 have been true for those that took a different approach.  It 
really Seems
 like overall direct contacts was higher than usual.

 If you were not able to participate in person, now is an 
excellent time for
 you to contact your representative and senator.  Ask them to 
support:
 HB 555 and SB 134 - Parental Rights for Disabled parents
 HB 559 - Accessible Instructional Materials (Text Bill
 HB 02 Funding for Blind Student Literacy which includes the 
Blind Skills
 Specialist Program

 It's fresh on their minds right now.  Keep the momentum going!
 Shelia Wright



 -----Original Message-----
 From: DanFlasar at aol.com
 Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2011 11:09 PM
 To: nfbmo at nfbnet.org
 Subject: [Nfbmo] Jefferson City Seminar results

 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


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