From: Andy Baracco 
Subject: Re: Dillon County NFB
Dear Jim. We don't have to read revisionist history. WE WERE THERE!!!, and
it wasn't 1984.
On Thu, 15 May 1997, James Sofka wrote:
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> Hy Ron and Andy apparently you all have short memories and are not very
> active members.
> In no way wood i say he had a little ego problem.
> He should have bin sent to jail.
> Take Harveys advice and reed your momitors and than come back and
> intelligently discuss  the matter.
> Jim Sofka.
> On Thu, 15 May 1997 hheagy@delphi.com wrote:
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> > 
> > On 1997-05-15 NFB-Talk@NFBnet.org said:
> >  NF>in my opinion!
> >  NF>Bob Acosta did far more good for both the CCB and A-C-B, than he
> >  NF>ever did harm!
> >  NF>He gave 15 years to the cause, though as a very charismatic person,
> >  NF>power kind of went to his head a bit!
> > That's the under statement of the year.  If I were living the
> > kind of lifestyle he was living for those fifteen years I would
> > have "given to the cause," too although it would be more accurate
> > to say he took from the cause
> > NF>James, I'd sure like to see your documentation in saying Bob Acosta
> >  NF>ripped off A-C-B.
> > Where have you been?  I refer you to the article in the June 1994
> > issue of the Braille Monitor called, "Robert Acosta: a Study in Lavish 
Living
> > and Limousines."  You don't remember when John Lopez whom he thought was 
one of
> > his lieutenants blew the whistle on him for what he was doing with
> > C.C.B. money?  Maybe C.C.B. has hundreds of thousands of dollars to
> > spend on Mr. Acosta's personal lavish lifestyle, but I think the money 
could
> > have been better spent helping blind related causes than for
> > taking limousines to Dodger games and other such things.  He
> > should have been prosecuted by all rights and C.C.B. will
> > probably never get that money back.
> > And don't forget that he was also forced off the national A.C.B.
> > board for his wrong doing just as he was expelled from the N.F.B.
> > I don't know whether he was officially expelled from the A.C.B. or not, 
but he
> > was certainly brought down and his efforts to form a third national 
organization
> > of blind people failed miserably.
> > 
> > But I would say, just read the article most of which is taken
> > directly from C.C.B. board meeting transcripts and see if that's
> > how you would want your organization's money spent.
> >  NF>Don't forget, NFB spent over one million dollars back in the late
> >  NF>1970's trying to get the treasury of California back. And the NFB
> >  NF>lost that one badly.
> > Wrong, we ultimately won that law suit.
> >  NF>Don't forget, both Sharon Gold and Kenneth have had their share of
> >  NF>messing things up over the years!
> > You do have a partial point.  When Robert Acosta did it, it was
> > spread all over the Monitor and on presidential releases, but
> > when Sharon Gold misused money and abused her power which
> > eventually forced her resignation from both the national board of
> > directors and California state president, it was kept relatively quiet
> > especially the mess with the Lawrence Marcellino Center for the
> > Blind which crashed almost as soon as it began.
> > 
> > Harvey
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