[Vendorsmi] Can We Be Far Behind?

[joe harcz Comcast]

I think all thestate mandated facilities will be gone effectively if not outright.
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  From: Joe Sontag 
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  Sent: Saturday, April 21, 2012 12:12 AM
  Subject: [Vendorsmi] Can We Be Far Behind?


  We were warned last year that there would be trouble for our program if things didn't start getting cleaned up; and our response was to ignore the messenger.  Below is an article that suggests strongly what may be happening in Michigan shortly.  Doubt what I'm saying? Can you say "State Plate?"  I rest my case.

  Oklahoma Senate defeats bill to end Capitol vending space
  for vision impaired
  Through the Department of Rehabilitation Services, vision-impaired entrepreneurs
  run two snack bars at the Capitol, but a bill proposed making the space available
  to private companies instead.
  BY MEGAN ROLLAND and BARBARA HOBEROCK Tulsa World | Published: April 19, 2012
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  The state Senate defeated a bill termed "mean spirited" by one lawmaker that would
  have taken snack bar space in the state Capitol from a program intended for the vision
  impaired and put it up instead for free-market competition.
  "Our job is to protect the most vulnerable in society," said Sen. Earl Garrison,
  D-Muskogee. "There is no reason in the world to do it."
  House Bill 2119 passed the House with only one no vote, but was defeated in the Senate
  15-27.
  Author of the bill, House Pro Tem Jeff Hickman, R-Fairview, said the service provided
  by the blind and vision-impaired vendors was not meeting the needs and demands of
  the busy Capitol.
  The bill would have exempted the Capitol from a state-adopted federal law that gives
  preference to vision-impaired vendors in state and county buildings with few exceptions,
  such as hospitals and golf courses.
  It also stipulated, however, that proceeds from renting the spaces to private vendors
  would go to the Department of Rehabilitation Services to help fund programs like
  their Business Enterprise Program that trains vision-impaired clients to run their
  own vending stands in state and federal buildings.
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