[Tall-Corn] Why should we go to the trouble?

[Cindy Ray]

Thank you for your message. You certainly should send out letters. The group going to the Capitol is not organized. We are going as able. We are going to support as we  can’t speak. It is at  3:30 Monday in .304.
Shawn Mayo has written a good letter that all of us should study and take to heart.

Cindy Lou
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> On Feb 4, 2023, at 3:20 PM, Mary McGee via Tall-Corn <tall-corn at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Bob, 
>    I know no one has asked me for help with this, but I'm drafting
> letters to some of the legislators and I'd attend the hearing if I knew
> which entrance to the Capitol is the one we can use.  I didn't even know
> that a group was going, or I would have offered to join it, even though I
> know I'm not a part of the Chapter anymore.  
>    Becky and I talked on the phone a while ago and she asked me if I'd
> help with the legislative stuff.  I said I wanted to know exactly what would
> be expected of me and I never heard anything more from her, so I assumed I'm
> not wanted.  
>    But, I'll help if I can.  I'll write the letters as planned.  Should
> I attend the hearing or just stay home?  
>    Please advise.  Thanks!
> Sincerely, 
> Mary L. McGee
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tall-Corn [mailto:tall-corn-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Bob Ray
> via Tall-Corn
> Sent: Friday, February 3, 2023 9:47 PM
> To: 'NFB of Iowa Internet Mailing List' <tall-corn at nfbnet.org>
> Cc: bray at nfbi.org
> Subject: Re: [Tall-Corn] Why should we go to the trouble?
> Importance: High
> 
> Wade, I appreciate many of the thoughts you expressed. This is the time for
> all of us to start finding ways to let our elected officials know how we
> feel about having an agency for the blind that is responsive to the needs of
> the blind. This agency must also .  has the ability to work with us to see
> to it that programs are the best they can be. There will be a chance for
> people to get together, probably on ZOOM, very soon to get questions
> answered and to help plan how we are going to accomplish the tasks ahead of
> us. It will not be easy. It may have to be rather fast. We can only win this
> one if we work together and all do our share.
> 
> In the meantime, if you have any connections with your legislators contact
> them and make them aware the blind of Iowa, and you especially wish to keep
> the Iowa programs for the blind as a separate independent agency. Remember
> this Monday the joint legislative committee for the budget for the
> Department will be meeting and the Governor has recommended a large cut to
> the funding. Those of us that are available to do so need to attend this
> hearing even though we will not be able to say anything. 
> 
> If there is anything that we may help you with, finding your Representative
> and Senator, or anything thing else. Get in touch with Scott, or any other
> officer or Board Member, or myself as part of the Legislative committee of
> the NFBI.
> 
> Bob Ray
> Member Legislative Committee
> NFBI
> Email: bray at nfbi.org
> Phone: 515 334-7231
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tall-Corn <tall-corn-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of Wade Hemmelrick
> via Tall-Corn
> Sent: Friday, February 3, 2023 8:10 PM
> To: NFB of Iowa Internet Mailing List <tall-corn at nfbnet.org>
> Cc: Wade Hemmelrick <cheeriosandv8 at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Tall-Corn] Why should we go to the trouble?
> 
> Live the lives we want, not what the church tells us, or the government, or
> any political parties, but we as blind citizens have every Constitutional
> right to stand up and speak up for ourselves.
> Good-intentioned and well-meaning people want to control us because we
> supposedly need help all the time. Borrowing from one or more of our past
> leaders:  "We know who we are, and we will never go back." It is most
> unfortunate of our having to oppose our supposed friends repeatedly like a
> broken record in order to keep our agency as we the blind people want it.
> Please pardon my slang when I say: "If it ain't broke, then don't fix
> it!"--Wade Hemmelrick
> 
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