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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">February 6 2012 The Palace
Coup</P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><A
href="mailto:joeharcz@comcast.net">joeharcz@comcast.net</A></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Re: Open Letter Tomorrow’s
Emergency Meeting MCB</P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Colleagues,</P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Tomorrow there will be a
so-called “emergency meeting” of the Michigan Commission for the Blind. It has
been called by Pat Cannon and effectively Constance Zanger the nominal head of
our Business Enterprise Program. What this meeting is meant to do is to
effectively on a “one time basis” allow other State of Michigan personnel to
decide just what operator will operate the “State Plate” which is the mandated
location in our Legislative Office building.</P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Now, this is effectively an
insidious assault upon the very act, Public Act 260 that creates a separate
commission in the first place. One of the things that having a separate
commission does is to mandate facilities on state properties. That includes the
very location used by our legislators, ironic as that is for they passed Public
Act 260 in the first place and they, the legislature is the only body with
constitutional authority to nullify it.</P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Make no mistake about it I’ve
lived in a state with no separate commission. The mandate on state properties is
critical for without them our opportunities would be limited to Federal
locations only.</P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">But, more importantly wouldn’t
each and every blind person be up in arms if our House and Senate sought to
repeal PA 260 outright?</P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Yet, again this agency is
effectively trying to have the Elected Operators Committee and then the MCB
Board to illegally nullify PA 2690. Make no mistake about it neither the agency,
nor the EOC, nor the MCB Board have authority to do this in an ad hoc manner. I
see no, and I repeat no Senator or Representative next to anyone’s name
here.</P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">For that matter neither the
building manager’s who think they can run this program and who Zanger and MCB
management always defer to being the lap dogs they are to have those
appellations either. They are not legislators! They are petty dictators and
simple bureaucrats who constantly exceed constitutional authorities.</P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">This is tantamount to an act of
collective suicide for it goes right at the very core of MCB’s existence. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It goes right to the heart of the matter
– our very reason to exist as a separate commission.</P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Now if we wish to abide this act
of mass suicide so be it. But recognize it for what it is.</P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Sincerely,</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Joe Harcz</P></DIV></BODY></HTML>