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From: Jamal.Mazrui@p0.f460.n101.z1.fidonet.org (Jamal Mazrui)
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Subject: Re: Jamal and the NFB
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Date: 29 Dec 90 03:16:29 GMT
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[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]

Hi Lee!  Thanks for your support and, more importantly, for raising 
questions that I think blind people deserve answers to.  I can answer 
them to some extent.  The NFB President is paid not by the NFB per se, 
but by an organization which NFB national leaders control, the American 
Brotherhood for the Blind.  Though I doubt it is written in print, 
Ihave heard Dr. Jernigan and James Gashel (NFB Director of Governmental 
Affairs) say in small groups that the NFB President is in fact paid to 
serve as President by the Brotherhood, even though on paper Dr. 
Jernigan was being paid to be Executive Director of the Brotherhood 
and now Marc Maurer is being paid to be General Council of the 
Brotherhood.  With regard to other NFB officers being paid, Peggy 
Pinder, the Second Vice President, gets substantial money each year to 
fight Federation airline cases in court and also to manage the 
Federations internal accounting operations.  Other Federation officers 
receive significant money--though not necessarily a "salary"--for doing 
various kinds of NFB work, payments coming variously out of the NFB 
treasury, Jecobus tenBroec Memorial Fund Corporation, and American 
Brotherhood for the Blind.  I have held the view for some time that it 
is legitimate to pay for good work by some officers, but that this 
should be done above board.
 
--Jamal--

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