[wisconsin] FW: We have a Braille Bill!

[Howard Kaufman]

That's great news.
Hope you have time during your trip to Washington to learn how to clip the 
headers out of your forwarded messages.  We have been anxiously awaiting 
this improvement for years.

I left your message in tact, so you could read it with a stopwatch and see 
how much garbage everybody on the list had to read through.  Besides 
publishing people's e-mail addresses with out their consent is well kind of 
rude.
Start stop watch now and read to the actual great message.
Now multiply the time by the number of people on the list.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Schneider, Katherine S." <SCHNEIKS at uwec.edu>
To: "'ACB of Wisconsin discussion list'" <wisconsin at acb.org>
Cc: "'National Federation of the Blind of Wisconsin News List'" 
<nfbwnews at nfbwis.org>
Sent: Sunday, March 21, 2010 12:43 AM
Subject: [wisconsin] FW: We have a Braille Bill!


>
> Good news!  Kathie
> Katherine Schneider, Ph.D.
> Senior Psychologist, Emerita
> Counseling Service
> University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
> schneiks at uwec.edu
>
> Ability is nothing without opportunity. - Napoleon Bonaparte
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gary Goyke [mailto:Gary at wcblind.org]
> Sent: Saturday, March 20, 2010 9:25 PM
> To: Staats, Rhonda; Parkinson, Bruce; Ford, Neal M; Heesen, Karen; 
> rjohnson1946 at charter.net; Schneider, Katherine S.; Weiss, Ed; Sippl, Dan; 
> Traynor, Gary; The Tuckers; Kathy Kent; Kathy Brockman; Lueders, Kathleen
> Cc: sally.zenchenko at rsvw.org; Graves, Nona; Karen Majkrzak; Chris 
> Zenchenko; Becky Williams; eloomans2 at charter.net; Wenzel, Dan M. (MGMT); 
> Ann Salazar; Hyde, David W. (ESC); Kay Malmquist; Zallar, Patty; Ann 
> Salazar
> Subject: We have a Braille Bill!
>
>
> Good evening everyone.
>
>
>
> We have been working very hard the past few months to make the 
> Instructional Materials and Accessibility Act a reality yet this year. 
> The severe fiscal situation in our state has been most difficult to 
> navigate.  I am happy to report to you we have a bill!
>
>
>
> On this coming Monday afternoon, State Representative Donna Seidel and 
> State Senator Bob Wirch will be introducing the 2010 Instructional 
> Materials Accessibility Act.  It is a very strong bill, pushing and 
> penalizing the publishers for any non-compliance.  It does not create a 
> "clearing house" here in the state so the fiscal effect is negligible.  We 
> have 13 sponsors at this point.  Others may be added as time goes along.
>
>
>
> Assembly Sponsors are:  Seidel, Berceau, Grigsby, Hebl, Hintz, Hixon, 
> Mason, Pasch, Pope-Roberts, Soletski, Zepnick.  Senate sponsors are Wirch 
> and Coggs.  These are all top shelf legislators, many are leaders in the 
> various education committees.
>
>
>
> We will be having a public hearing on the bill before or very near April 
> 13th.  The hearing will take place in Madison. I will of course notify you 
> all and work with our Legislative Committee to put our strongest arguments 
> forward.
>
>
>
> The bill should be available on the Legislature's web site sometime on 
> Tuesday afternoon.  I am traveling to Washington DC tomorrow and will be 
> back in the Council offices on Wednesday afternoon.
>
>
>
> I will be speaking to the Statutory Council on Blindness Wednesday evening 
> here in Madison and will have up to date information for them.  They will 
> be able to add this important subject to the office visits on Thursday.
>
>
>
> The publishers are already active.  They have retained a law firm and 
> lobbying offices once again.  The have contacted Rep. Seidel and asked her 
> to desist.  Natalie Verette from Rep. Seidel's staff will address our 
> April 29th Legislative Day and give all those attending the inside scoop 
> on the power struggles they are creating.
>
>
>
> I had the chance to talk with the Governor before he left on his trip to 
> Europe Friday.  Jessica Doyle was with him and has asked me about this 
> bill in the past.  I told him that we had a chance to enact it yet this 
> year.  He said if we can pass it...he will sign it.  The publishers are 
> calling lots of University folks in the days ahead to get them to pull 
> away from support.
>
>
>
> I will available through my blackberry if you have other questions.  I 
> will do my best to answer.  gnregoyke at mailbag.com.
>
>
>
> Please pass on to our many friends who should know about this good news. 
> We have some work to do.  I will be talking with Rhonda in the days ahead 
> about a letter writing/grass roots plan.
>
>
>
> Best to all.
>
> Gary
>
>
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