[nfbmi-talk] regarding Mr. King at MCB meeting

[Lydia Schuck]

 Hello NFB list and fellow commissioners,

Hi this is Lydia writing to tell you about the "man in the doorway" at
the meeting.  I do not know why Mr. King was there,  because I am still
kind of naive about all this.  He was giving messages to Connie Zanger
and several times she stepped out of the room to talk with him.  He
handed her a note which she read and then covered with a paper, because I
might have seen it, I suppose.

Anyway it reminded me of when I lived in Chicago.  I had a reason to
attend one Chicago City Council meeting and one of the most powerful
aldermen, Ed Burke, stood in a doorway and conferred with someone, left
and returned, got messages....who knows what was up.  I like to think we
in Lansing are much more transparent than the Chicago machine.  But you
gotta wonder.  

Thanks for the great public comments at the meeting.  And I would like
you to know that the woman who said she was not getting any help getting
her case started, Gloria Tatum, I think, was connected with Leamon at the
break.  But as Joann mentioned at the meeting, this way of hearing
problems and sending folks straight to Leamon or Pat is not a good thing
in the long run.  For now, though, it is good for us as the commissioners
to know who is not being served.  If you know a parent or teen who needs
help, send them to me....If this is the way to get people into the
system, then we will keep it going.  Lydia