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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I think all thestate mandated facilities will be
gone effectively if not outright.</FONT></DIV>
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<A title=suncat0@gmail.com href="mailto:suncat0@gmail.com">Joe Sontag</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=vendorsmi@nfbnet.org
href="mailto:vendorsmi@nfbnet.org">VENDORSMI List</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, April 21, 2012 12:12
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [Vendorsmi] Can We Be Far
Behind?</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>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.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Oklahoma Senate defeats bill to end Capitol
vending space<BR>for vision impaired<BR>Through the Department of
Rehabilitation Services, vision-impaired entrepreneurs<BR>run two snack bars
at the Capitol, but a bill proposed making the space available<BR>to private
companies instead.<BR>BY MEGAN ROLLAND and BARBARA HOBEROCK Tulsa World |
Published: April 19, 2012<BR> 2<BR>The state Senate defeated a bill
termed “mean spirited” by one lawmaker that would<BR>have taken snack bar
space in the state Capitol from a program intended for the vision<BR>impaired
and put it up instead for free-market competition.<BR>“Our job is to protect
the most vulnerable in society,” said Sen. Earl Garrison,<BR>D-Muskogee.
“There is no reason in the world to do it.”<BR>House Bill 2119 passed the
House with only one no vote, but was defeated in the
Senate<BR>15-27.<BR>Author of the bill, House Pro Tem Jeff Hickman,
R-Fairview, said the service provided<BR>by the blind and vision-impaired
vendors was not meeting the needs and demands of<BR>the busy Capitol.<BR>The
bill would have exempted the Capitol from a state-adopted federal law that
gives<BR>preference to vision-impaired vendors in state and county buildings
with few exceptions,<BR>such as hospitals and golf courses.<BR>It also
stipulated, however, that proceeds from renting the spaces to private
vendors<BR>would go to the Department of Rehabilitation Services to help fund
programs like<BR>their Business Enterprise Program that trains vision-impaired
clients to run their<BR>own vending stands in state and federal
buildings.<BR>_______________________________________________</FONT></DIV>
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