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From: Grant.Downey@p0.f9.n381.z1.fidonet.org (Grant Downey)
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Subject: Re: Resignation statement as an NFB officer
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Date: 10 Jan 91 17:58:21 GMT
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[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]

It is fortunate that I've never been asked about the use of NFB funds 
or how I felt about it because I would have to be honest.  Entirely to 
much money is spent on expelling people, diciplining people, and and 
diciplining individuals.  Who is the NFB to diciplin individuals?  In 
my case I was forced to expell some of my best people in my chapter in 
New Orleans.  I didn't think it was right but if I wanted to keep the 
presidancy of the chapter, my state board membership, and my P.R. 
position state wide I had to do it as a direct order from the State 
President.  When these people were expelled it vertually gutted my 
chapter, really accomplished nothing, and just made it difficult for 
all envolved.  The people I was forced to expell brought in quite a bit 
of money in fundraising.  Anyway what money the NFB receives from 
contributions should be used to pay for the cases that would help the 
blind.  One of their slogans is "We are the Blind helping ourselves" In 
many ways that is true but more could be done if more was spent on 
important landmark cases that would untimately benefit all blind 
persons in this country.  That appears to be an unpopular view in the 
NFB however. that appears to be an unpopular view in the NFB at 
present. Grant

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