[Nfbmo] Rest Area Commercialization: Write your Congressman!

Daniel Garcia dangarcia3 at hotmail.com
Sat Sep 30 00:52:12 UTC 2017


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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