[nabs-l] Announcing NABS 2014 Candidates Forum

[Mikayla Gephart]

I am a member of NJABS. Who have you tried to contact?

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> On Jun 12, 2014, at 7:01 PM, James Hulme via nabs-l <nabs-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Hello, Mary Fernandez,
> 
> 
> I would like to participate in asking the candidates questions. Please
> either send me the link to surveymonkey or please send me the moderator and
> his/her contact info. off list. I appreciate all the effort you do for NABS
> in putting together this event for people running for the president of
> NABS. Justin Salisbury is already one candidate.
> 
> 
> Who runs NABS in the state of NJ?? Who is the president of New Jersey
> Assoc. of Blind Students? No one seems to respond to any phone calls made
> to the NJABS president anymore. I would like to attend their meetings in
> the future.
> 
> Anyways, I congratulate you on your change in position in occupation. Great
> job!!
> 
> 
> Thanks for the informative e-mail you have already sent regarding NABS.
> Have a wonderful day!!
> 
> Please respond back and stay in touch.
> 
> 
> Jimmy Hulme
> 609-660-0699 (Home)
> jim.hulme at gmail.com
> member of NFB of New Jersey since 1998 and member of NJABS since 2007.
> 
> 
> On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 5:04 PM, Mary Fernandez via nabs-l <
> nabs-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
>> Dear all,
>> As we all know, this year during its annual business meeting NABS will
>> be holding elections. In that spirit, I will be putting together the
>> NABS 2014 candidates forum, which will be a time and space where the
>> membership will get to ask questions and the candidates will answer
>> those questions, thereby letting us know more about themselves and
>> their vision for the organization.
>> How it works: candidates must contact me off list, and let me know if
>> they are intending to run, which position they are intending to run
>> for, and if they'd like to participate. Note that preference will be
>> given to presidential candidates, that is, because of time
>> constraints; we will not be able to have debates for candidates for
>> each of the positions which will be up this year. The only position
>> which is certain to have an opportunity for debate will be the
>> president's position.
>> In the next few days I will be circulating a link to a Survey Monkey
>> which will allow anyone who is a member to submit questions they'd
>> like candidates to answer. We will put those questions into a pool,
>> and questions will be randomly selected during the forum. That means
>> that it is possible not all questions will be asked. However, I will
>> post the questions publicly after the forum, and candidates can choose
>> to answer them via the list or whichever way they fancy.
>> So for right now, those of you who are intending to run for the NABS
>> board, and are comfortable in declaring that intention please email me
>> at trillian551 at gmail.com.
>> I am not part of the NABS board, and I will not be running for any
>> positions, so rest assure, that I will simply be putting this event
>> together in an impartial and fair way. I will not be moderating, but
>> will have a respected member of the NFB moderate. The moderator and I
>> will be the only ones to see the questions before hand; no candidates
>> will be given any kind of preferential treatment. Please let me know
>> if you'd like to participate.
>> Thanks.
>> 
>> 
>> --
>> Mary Fernandez
>> "I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will
>> forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them
>> feel."
>> --
>> Maya Angelou
>> 
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