[Nfbofnc] time to work on merger

[Gary H. Ray]

Folks:

On Wednesday, the House Appropriations Committee voted out a budget that
includes the merger of the VR agencies.  The House will vote on this next
week.  We need to redouble our efforts.  Normally, it is hard to get
anything done on the floor of each house.  So, we need to start hammering
our Senators.  We need to call, email, and visit them.

We need to continue to contact Governor Perdue.

The future of the blind of NC is in our hands.

Gary Ray

-----Original Message-----
From: nfbofnc-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfbofnc-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Lusi98
Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2011 5:49 PM
To: nfbofnc at nfbnet.org
Subject: [Nfbofnc] time to work on merger

Hello Again, All.

 

We are making a massive push on both the Legislature and the Governor's
office to let them know how opposed we are to merging Services for the Blind
with Services for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing and Vocational
Rehabilitation. Please call and Email Governor Perdue. Let her know that she
needs to resend Executive Order Eighty-Five Section  7B. Both Call and email
every two or three days. We would like a face to face meeting with her, but
without your making it evident that we are not going to stand for merger she
will not feel that she needs to talk with us. Each one of you is important
in this effort. Attached is our shortened form of our position paper on
merger for your reference. 

 

The Governor's phone number is 919-733-5811 and her email is
governor.office at nc.gov.

 

Then After you contact the governor please contact your county's Senators
and Representatives. If you aren't sure who they are call the legislative
switchboard at 919-733-4111. The ladies can tell you who they are. They will
be glad to connect you with your senator or representative. If you email
them use the pattern firstname.lastname at ncleg.net. It would be fantastic if
you could do both. Check in with them every week to see what action if any
they have taken.



best of luck to all of you.

 

Lusi