William.Wilson@f89.n129.z1.fidonet.org (William Wilson) (06/20/91)
Index Number: 16260 [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! -- Uucp: ..!{decvax,oliveb}!bunker!hcap!hnews!129!89!William.Wilson Internet: William.Wilson@f89.n129.z1.fidonet.org
Walter.Siren@p18.f5.n396.z1.fidonet.org (Walter Siren) (06/22/91)
Index Number: 16364 [This is from the Blink Talk Conference] 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 -- Uucp: ..!{decvax,oliveb}!bunker!hcap!hnews!396!5.18!Walter.Siren Internet: Walter.Siren@p18.f5.n396.z1.fidonet.org