[Nfbmo] Rest Area Commercialization: Write your Congressman!

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Fri Oct 6 16:53:40 UTC 2017


I done did it!
The Original Gene


-----Original Message-----
From: Nfbmo [mailto:nfbmo-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Gene Fleeman via Nfbmo
Sent: Friday, October 6, 2017 8:50 AM
To: NFB of Missouri Mailing List <nfbmo at nfbnet.org>
Cc: Gene Fleeman <gfleeman55 at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Nfbmo] Rest Area Commercialization: Write your Congressman!

Thank you to the Magoons and Daniel Garcia for singing the letter concerning the commercialization of Rest Areas on Federal Highways.
I hope many others are doing the same.

Gene Fleeman
President, Missouri Assoc. of Blind Merchants


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On Fri, Sep 29, 2017 at 7:52 PM, Daniel Garcia via Nfbmo <nfbmo at nfbnet.org>
wrote:

> It's 25 now. My apologies for not doing this before.
>
> Regards
>
> Daniel
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nfbmo [mailto:nfbmo-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Gene 
> Fleeman via Nfbmo
> Sent: Friday, September 29, 2017 12:03 PM
> To: NFB of Missouri Mailing List
> Cc: Gene Fleeman
> Subject: [Nfbmo] Rest Area Commercialization: Write your Congressman!
>
> Hello Federationists,
>
> Although I forwarded this email back in early August, and some of you 
> responded and sent the requested letter, unfortunately, only 24 people 
> in Missouri went to the website and sent the letter. There has only 
> been less than 1600 letters in total and we need a much larger no of letters.
> Therefore, I am sending this email out again, asking you to please 
> take just a few minutes to go to the link in this email below and fill 
> in a few blanks and send your letter in showing your support not only 
> for blind vendors in Missouri, but across the nation. Then send this 
> email to your friends and ask them to as well.
>
>
> Dear Randolph-Sheppard Stakeholder: As we have told you over the last 
> few weeks, momentum is growing for commercialization of our interstate 
> rest areas. A bill has been introduced in the House of 
> Representatives. The President’s proposed budget for FY 2018 communicated support for the idea.
> The infrastructure bill that will presumably be introduced next year 
> is expected to include the option of commercialization of the rest 
> areas through public private partnerships. Almost 400 blind 
> entrepreneurs could lose their businesses. The threat is real.
>
>
>
> We need your help in preventing this from happening. We need for you 
> to contact your members of Congress today to tell them you oppose 
> commercialization of the interstate rest areas. We’ve made it easy for you.
> Go to the link below:
>
>
>
> https://nfb.constituentvoice.net/nfbaction
>
>
>
> and send a letter to your two U.S. Senators and House member. The 
> website will automatically find your members for you. It is as simple as 1-2-3-4.
>
>
>
> 1.  Review the letter on the website that has been drafted for you to 
> send;
>
> 2.  Fill in all of the blanks with your contact information;
>
> 3.  Click on “Preview Letters”;
>
> 4.  Click on “Send All Letters”
>
>
>
> It couldn’t be any easier.
>
>
>
> But don’t stop there:
>
>
>
> 1.  Get all of your friends and family members to send letters;
>
> 2.  Poste the link on your Facebook Page or Twitter account and 
> encourage followers to help out the cause;
>
> 3.  Contact your member of Congress’ local office and ask for a 
> meeting when they are home in a few weeks for the summer recess. We 
> will be sharing talking points for such meetings or you can go to our 
> website at www.blindmerchants.org
> <https://protect2.fireeye.com/url?k=538774fb6372a696-
> b6c0d66e4005b19f&u=http://www.blindmerchants.org>
> to review them.Talking points will be up soon.
>
>
>
> We need every U.S. Senator and member of Congress to receive as many 
> letters as possible and we need them from as many different addresses 
> as possible. If every blind entrepreneur sends a letter and gets 4 
> other people to do the same, we will generate over 10,000 letters. We 
> can beat that.
>
>
>
> Nicky Gacos, President
>
> NABM
>
> Gene Fleeman President
>
> MO Assoc. of Blind Merchants
>
>
>
> *Don’t sit on the sidelines. Please Get involved* 
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