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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'>Federation Family</span></b><b><span style='font-size:26.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#CC0000'>,<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'>Our brothers and sisters in the Oklahoma Association of Blind Merchants and those across the country in the NABM need our help!!Please read and act on the message below. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:26.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#CC0000'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:26.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#CC0000'>Preserve the Randolph Sheppard priority!<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><strong><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'>From the National Federation of the Blind Business Enterprise Initiative <o:p></o:p></span></strong></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'>Call to Action: Your help is desperately needed and it will only take a few seconds of your time. The Department of Defense is promulgating rules that will effectively eliminate the Randolph-Sheppard priority for troop dining contracts on military bases. 40+ blind vendors will lose their jobs and future opportunities will be lost forever. Vendors in states that depend on set aside from these contracts will face significant increases in set aside fees and/or the elimination or reduction in fringe benefits. We cannot let this happen. Let your voice be heard. Submit a comment today.</span><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'>Simply click on the link below, click the red box that applies to you, enter your name and state, and hit Submit. It couldn't be easier. Your friends and family can submit comments as well by clicking on Other Stakeholder. We cannot allow this to happen. Act now. We only have 1 month to submit comments and convince DOD to pull the proposed rule. <a href="https://nfb.constituentvoice.net/nfbreg/" target="_blank"><span style='color:#0066CC'>https://nfb.constituentvoice.net/nfbreg/</span></a></span><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><strong><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'>NOTE - Please e-mail Terry Smith at the NFBEI at </span></strong><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'><a href="mailto:tsmith@nfb.org"><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:darkgreen;text-decoration:none'>tsmith@nfb.org</span></a> </span><strong><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'>back once you have completed this so that we can track our responses.</span></strong><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'> </span><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>Jeannie M. Massay, President<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>National Federation of theBlind <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>Of Oklahoma<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>505 Baker Street<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>Norman, OK 73072<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>Phone: 405-600-0695<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'><a href="mailto:Jeannie.massay@nfbok.org">Jeannie.massay@nfbok.org</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>The National Federation of the Blind knows that blindness is not the characteristic that defines you or your future. Every day, we raise expectations of the blind because low expectations create obstacles between blind people and our dreams. Blindness is not what holds you back. You can live the life you want.!. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>“Whatever you dare to dream, begin.” – Goethe <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>