[Colorado-talk] Urgent, Please act!

[Dan Burke]

Thanks for forwarding this Kevan. I hadn't seen it yet.

I'll write the letters as well, and forward on to others.
Dan


On 8/4/17, Nate Hecker via Colorado-Talk <colorado-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> Hello,
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>  I just sent my letters.
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> Nate
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> On Fri, Aug 4, 2017 at 10:12 AM Kevan Worley via Colorado-Talk <
> colorado-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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>> Greetings family, friends, and colleagues. Many of you will have received
>> this through other sources. However, please entertain my personal ask!
>> Operators in Colorado and the Nation will lose significant opportunity if
>> congress makes changes to the law which allows blind individuals to
>> manage
>> vending operations on roadside rest areas. Not only will this change
>> effect
>> 3 blind entrepreneurs and all of our employees in Colorado, it will
>> significantly reduce funding for the entire program. This is because the
>> program will lose the fees paid by the roadside rest area entrepreneurs.
>> This will have an impact on our employees and those family and friends
>> who
>> are able to benefit, in one way or another, by these businesses. Do we
>> really want a McDonalds or Denny's on the highway roadside rest areas?
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>> Will you please read the announcement below and generate your letters
>> today! Please urge your friends and family members to help. If you need
>> someone in my office to assist, please call. But I think this is very
>> simple and straight forward for us. Can you please let me know when you
>> have accomplished this so that we can keep a chart. I do apricate
>> everyone's effort.
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>> At Your Service,
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>> Office: 1-866-543-6808
>> Cell: (303)929-2369
>> Fax: (719)527-0129
>> www.worleyenterprises.com<http://www.worleyenterprises.com/>
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>> Dear Randolph-Sheppard Stakeholder: As we have told you over the last few
>> weeks, momentum is growing for commercialization of our interstate rest
>> areas. A bill has been introduced in the House of Representatives. The
>> President's proposed budget for FY 2018 communicated support for the
>> idea.
>> The infrastructure bill that will presumably be introduced next year is
>> expected to include the option of commercialization of the rest areas
>> through public private partnerships. Almost 400 blind entrepreneurs could
>> lose their businesses. The threat is real.
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>> We need your help in preventing this from happening. We need for you to
>> contact your members of Congress today to tell them you oppose
>> commercialization of the interstate rest areas. We've made it easy for
>> you.
>> Go to the link below:
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>> https://nfb.constituentvoice.net/nfbaction
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>> and send a letter to your two U.S. Senators and House member. The website
>> will automatically find your members for you. It is as simple as 1-2-3-4.
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>> 1.  Review the letter on the website that has been drafted for you to
>> send;
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>> 2.  Fill in all of the blanks with your contact information;
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>> 3.  Click on "Preview Letters";
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>> 4.  Click on "Send All Letters"
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>> It couldn't be any easier.
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>> But don't stop there:
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>> 1.  Get all of your friends and family members to send letters;
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>> 2.  Poste the link on your Facebook Page or Twitter account and encourage
>> followers to help out the cause;
>>
>> 3.  Contact your member of Congress' local office and ask for a meeting
>> when they are home in a few weeks for the summer recess. We will be
>> sharing
>> talking points for such meetings or you can go to our website at
>> www.blindmerchants.org<http://www.blindmerchants.org/> to review
>> them.Talking points will be up soon.
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>> We need every U.S. Senator and member of Congress to receive as many
>> letters as possible and we need them from as many different addresses as
>> possible. If every blind entrepreneur sends a letter and gets 4 other
>> people to do the same, we will generate over 10,000 letters. We can beat
>> that.
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>> Nicky Gacos, President
>>
>> NABM
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>> Don't sit on the sidelines. Get involved
>>
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