From: Jim Gashel 
Subject: Re: ACB Washington Connection (fwd)
hello harvey:
concerning the question of resources, no matter how few, the nfb has not
voted to approve the use of those resources for the redistribution of acb
washington connection messages.  
as for the use of resources for dealing with the magoo business, the
national convention did vote for the uses of resources to deal with that
issue.  
the fact is that andy's redistribution of the acb messages is a calculated
political act by him.  anyone who wants to read acb messages can subscribe
to their lists or even join that organization if they want to.  the
problem that I have with their redistribution here is that the messages
were passed off as representing a strategy that all of us should by in to
because we are blind.  however, in this case, as in many others, the acb's
strategic choices are not the same as ours.  Apparently andy disagrees
with our approach and would like it to be more like the acb's.  
On Fri, 26 Sep 1997 hheagy@delphi.com wrote:
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> 
> there is something to be said about our resources being used to
> get A.C.B. messages out, but any such resources would be
> negligible.  In fact, they would probably be no more and possibly
> less than my having to plow through spam e-mail which counts
> against my time which I have paid for.  But I submit that those
> resources are a lot less than we have spent on this Mr. Magoo
> foolishness which is making us look incredibly stupid
> 
> As a matter of fact, along that line, I heard from a friend of
> mine who attended a state leadership seminar in which Marc Maurer
> participated.  He brought with him a letter criticizing the Magoo
> matter as well as his response and according to the report I
> heard, his written response to the person was something to the
> effect that he had to defend the convention's decision whether or
> not he personally agreed with it since the convention passed the
> resolution.  I think everyone on this list knows that if this is
> true, his response is a cop-out.  The national leadership sets
> the direction in which the organization goes and in fact
> instituted this resolution.  If they didn't like it they could
> have killed it by speaking against it.  I think maybe our
> leadership has seen that the general public is not with us on
> this one and they would like to back out of it but can't find a
> way to do it other than the obvious one, admitting they made a
> mistake.
> 
> Regarding the Levi Straus ad which represents at best a
> misrepresentation and at worst a clear danger to dog guide users,
> this is something both organizations could work on together in much
> the same way we have formed a committee with R.S.V.A. and Sagebrush
> to help preserve the Randolph-shepherd program.
> 
> Harvey
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