[misc.handicap] National versus local policy!

William.Wilson@f89.n129.z1.fidonet.org (William Wilson) (06/20/91)

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[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]

 WS>  for the paritransit.  As far as the NFB helping, the national
 WS>  brass is opposed to it, but I don't know about your local
 WS>  chapters.  The local chapter here is not opposed to it.  The
 WS>  ACB also is not opposed to it.

Walter,
    Is it just me, or have you noticed a recent separation in local NFB
chapter policy from that at the national level?

     Perhaps despotism is on the way out, and the democracy of which Jamal
speaks will rise again@
                                                        Willie

... BlinkTalk, Dr. Deb and Silver in Pittsburgh!

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Walter.Siren@p18.f5.n396.z1.fidonet.org (Walter Siren) (06/22/91)

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 WW>     Is it just me, or have you noticed a recent separation in local NFB
 WW> chapter policy from that at the national level?

     Willie, there has been some of that here for a while now.  AS you know that the national groups never work together, but the local group has worked with us for a while now.

 WW>      Perhaps despotism is on the way out, and the democracy of which Jamal
 WW> speaks will rise again@

Willie, why do you think that ACB has been growing so much.  There
are lot of ACB members that are former members of the NFB, and more
will come.  I don't think that it will ever be straight, until some
of the top brass dissappear.  More and more of the "so-called big
boys" have left the NFB, and came to the ACB, because they finally
got tired of what is going on over there.  The only thing I hope is
that they remember why the left there.

One example, ACB did something that I didn't like a couple of years
ago.  They took the decission making policy of where the
conventions will be held out of the convention members.  Maybe I
said that wrong, they convinced enough of the people to turn over
there right to vote on convention sites to the board of directors.
I think that it was a little underhanded that it came up after a
lot of the people left to go home, and I fought it, but I lost.
Maybe they will be right, I don't know.  I did not want to trade in
my right to vote on a convention site just to get a better price.
After looking at the set-up we have this year in Tampa, and the
members voted on it, again of which I was opposed to, well I don't
believe that the board would have chose such a set-up, or at least
I hope not.  Not that I have anything against Tampa, but I don't
like three hotels, and exhibits having to be accross the street in
a highschool.  Unfortunately some of the NFB seems to be seeping
into the ACB.  Frankly I think that this decission was
unconstitutional, but I was ruled down.

               Walter

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