[Colorado-talk] Urgent, Please act!

Mon Aug 7 16:05:21 UTC 2017

I am going to send my letter and I will share this with the Aurora chapter members.

Wayne F. Marshall NOMC
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Colorado Center for the Blind
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From: Colorado-Talk [mailto:colorado-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Kevan Worley via Colorado-Talk
Sent: Friday, August 04, 2017 10:10 AM
To: colorado-talk at nfbnet.org; Bridget Worley <bridget.worley at WORLEYENTERPRISES.COM>; Maggie Norden <maggie.norden at worleyenterprises.com>; Jessica Beecham <Jessica at wefitwellness.com>; kevin Kovacs <Kevin at wefitwellness.com>; Mary Wheeler <mary.wheeler at worleyenterprises.com>; Bruce Marquardt (Blackstone Consulting) <bruce at blackstone-consulting.com>; Abraham Fisher (Abraham.fisher at comcast.net) <Abraham.fisher at comcast.net>; Al Travers <al at a1foodservice.com>; Alan Moss <alangm89 at gmail.com>; Brad Basta <bmfvend at yahoo.com>; Bridget Worley <bridget.worley at WORLEYENTERPRISES.COM>; Gary Nelson <vendcrew at msn.com>; Gladys Crespo <gladysc1983 at gmail.com>; Haas, Doug (doughaas505 at gmail.com) <doughaas505 at gmail.com>; Jack Riley <jrservice at q.com>; Jessica Beecham <Jessica at wefitwellness.com>; Joy Lynn Nelson <joyfulliving.joy at gmail.com>; Mike Cozzalino <mikecozz at comcast.net>; Nancy Hoover (nhoover54.nh at gmail.com) <nhoover54.nh at gmail.com>; Paul Pichardo <paulpichardo at rocketmail.com>; Scott Marcotte <scottmarcotte5937 at comcast.net>; Steven Hickey <stevenhickey3131 at comcast.net>; Ty Burnham <burnhamsbestcafe at yahoo.com>; v_sorensen at comcast.net; Aaron Youngblood <aaron.youngblood at state.co.us>; Christie Haus <christie.haus at state.co.us>; Dan Whalen <Dan.Whalen at state.co.us>; 'Jennifer Bostick' <tnjbostick at yahoo.com>; Jessy <jessy.gullatte at state.co.us>; Jody <jody.mchazlett at state.co.us>; Julia Zanon <julia.zanon at state.co.us>; Kenny Parrish <Kenny.Parrish at state.co.us>; Larry Gehring <larry.gehring at state.co.us>; Michelle Raymond <michelle.raymond at state.co.us>; Travis Yoder <travis.yoder at state.co.us>
Cc: Kevan Worley <kevanworley at worleyenterprises.com>
Subject: [Colorado-talk] Urgent, Please act!

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?

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.

At Your Service,

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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.

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:

https://nfb.constituentvoice.net/nfbaction

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.

1.  Review the letter on the website that has been drafted for you to send;

2.  Fill in all of the blanks with your contact information;

3.  Click on "Preview Letters";

4.  Click on "Send All Letters"

It couldn't be any easier.

But don't stop there:

1.  Get all of your friends and family members to send letters;

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.

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.

Nicky Gacos, President

NABM

Don't sit on the sidelines. Get involved

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