[Nfbofnc] a neat thing happened at the state democratic Women'sConvention

[Patricia Tessnear]

Thanks so much, Lusi.  I have been without email for several weeks, but now 
I have it again, and I am so happy to have it again.  We wil keep fighting 
our battles.  I will see you later this month.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lusi Radford" <lusi98 at nc.rr.com>
To: <nfbofnc at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Monday, September 19, 2011 6:50 PM
Subject: [Nfbofnc] a neat thing happened at the state democratic 
Women'sConvention


> Greetings All:
>
> This past weekend the North Carolina Democratic Women held their 
> convention. Someone tried to get our group to pass a resolution in favor 
> of consolidating the three agencies: Services for the Blind, Services for 
> the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, and Vocational Rehabilitation. Now it just 
> so happened that my friend, Pat who is a former lobbyist in Washington D.C 
> and who wrote our petition for us, attended the convention. She stood up 
> an explained to the entire group why this merger was a very bad idea. The 
> resolution was soundly defeated with no one voting for it.
>
> Don't ever let anyone tell you that blind people have no influence.
>
> Lusi
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