Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!ccu.umanitoba.ca!herald.usask.ca!alberta!brazeau.ucs.ualberta.ca!unixg.ubc.ca!ubc-cs!uw-beaver!mit-eddie!mintaka!olivea!oliveb!bunker!hcap!hnews!129!89!David.Andrews From: David.Andrews@f89.n129.z1.fidonet.org (David Andrews) Newsgroups: misc.handicap Subject: Hotel Rates Message-ID: <16550@handicap.news> Date: 28 Jun 91 14:51:02 GMT Sender: wtm@bunker.isc-br.com Reply-To: David.Andrews@f89.n129.z1.fidonet.org Organization: FidoNet node 1:129/89 - BlinkLink, Pittsburgh PA Lines: 49 Approved: wtm@bunker.hcap.fidonet.org Index Number: 16550 [This is from the Blink Talk Conference] WW> I've been sitting back watching this thread, waiting for WW> some definitive statements, but so far, nobody has come up WW> with any! That is, nobody said that convention groups don't WW> get special rates, and I assume that is because everybody WW> knows that, but Walter asserted that the NFB got better rates WW> than the others due to the fact they represent a group of WW> blind conventioneers! I don't know what he is basing this WW> upon, but for sure, if we are talking better rates than WW> similarly sized groups, and I am sure similarly qualified rate WW> negotiators, I can understand his conclusion. WW> WALTER, you got any numbers to go with your claim or any WW> other supportive evidence? Frankly, I am amazed if a hotel WW> will give special rates to blind people, and if anything, WW> would expect the opposite due to what I would guess them to WW> assume to be higher costs on their end, but yes, if what you WW> say is true, we can add it to the growing list of WW> incongruities many of us see in the NFB! Willie, It strikes me that this is just another example of Walter, and others, looking for things to give the NFB grief over. I have sat in Dr. Jernigan's office over the past few months, while he has talked to Hotels. He has, in to way used blindness as a way of extracting special hotel rates. It is conceivable, but not likely, that a Hotel might give us a special rate. It is much less likely that they would do it a second time. So, why do we keep get invited back to places where we have been, at still low rates? I consider this topic just another example of gratuitouss hassling of the NFB. Why is it that ACB members and sympathesizers here seem to spend a good deal of time attacking us. If they are right, and we are wrong, then they should triumph in the end and shouldn't have to spend so much time putting us down. You don't see us doing that. I think that a major element of the ACB is its oposition to the NFB. You take that away and there isn't much. If you read the Braille Monitor and the Braille Forum ten years ago, the attacks on the other side, by both were numerous and uuncalled for in my opinion. I see much less of this today, although more so in the Forum. The January-February issue for example, had two articles that were veehemently anti-NFB. We do invite criticism at times, because we take strong positions. However, some people might want to examine their motivations in what they say and how they say it. Some people are living in the past. Things are changing. ... David Andrews -- Uucp: ..!{decvax,oliveb}!bunker!hcap!hnews!129!89!David.Andrews Internet: David.Andrews@f89.n129.z1.fidonet.org