[nabs-l] Organizations express outrage over republican disability policy

[Beth]

That's what we would hope because Down's Syndrome is worse than
blindness because to me, it's an intellectual hold on your mind.  You
can't go any further than a certain point, and then there are the
physical things you can't do.  I know several people with Down's who
have been lucky enough to function on thir own or have been lucky
enough to be highly intelligent, but I don't see too many Down's
people given credit for what they can or can't do.  I don't know if
Palin's Down's child is functional on her own.
Beth

On 10/31/08, Sarah Jevnikar <sarah.jevnikar at utoronto.ca> wrote:
> I think McCain's running mate has a daughter with down's syndrome, so one
> would hope she's not completely against disability rights. Happy voting
> guys.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
> Of Beth
> Sent: Friday, October 31, 2008 5:56 PM
> To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
> Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Organizations express outrage over republican
> disability policy
>
> Geez, why execute criminals with developmental disabilities?  Why?
> And please, somebody tell me why McCain and Palin are acting the way
> they do.  It's bad enough that Palin is against the LGBT community,
> but against people with disabilities?  I knew this was going to
> happen.  I don't know if I'm psychic, but I just know it's going to
> happen.
> Beth
>
> On 10/31/08, Antonio Guimaraes <aguimaraes at nbp.org> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>>
>>
>> Just received this press release, and am providing it for your
> information,
>> as you look to be informed to vote in the 2008 election.
>>
>>
>>
>> Antonio Guimaraes
>>
>>
>>
>> ADAWatch.org
>> National Coalition for Disability Rights
>> 1701 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Suite 300
>> Washington, DC 20006
>> 202-448-9928 - info at ncdr.org
>>
>>
>> NEWS RELEASE
>>
>> October 31, 2008
>>
>>
>>
>> Disability Rights Organizations Express Outrage Over Attacks at
> McCain-Palin
>> Rally
>>
>>
>>
>> Contacts:
>>
>> Jim Ward, Founder and President
>>
>> 202-415-4753 or jward at ncdr.org
>>
>>
>>
>> Marcie Roth, Executive Director
>>
>> 301-717-7447 or mroth at ncdr.org
>>
>>
>>
>> (Washington, DC) The National Coalition for Disability Rights (NCDR)
> pushed
>> back today against the McCain-Palin campaign for ridiculing the legal
> rights
>> of people with disabilities. News reports describe McCain-Palin campaign
>> representative Senator Kit Bond (R-Mo), joining Vice Presidential
> candidate
>> Sarah Palin at a rally in Rush Limbaugh's hometown of Cape Girardeau,
>> Missouri, mocking Presidential candidate Senator Barak Obama for stating
>> that he's looking to nominate judges who empathize with "the disabled."
>>
>>
>>
>> "It's Halloween and it seems that Sarah Palin's mask of support for people
>> with "special needs" is slipping. Despite past pandering to people with
>> disabilities, McCain-Palin are actually opposed to vital disability
>> legislation like the Community Choice Act and they want to appoint judges
>> who will further roll back the civil rights protections of the Americans
>> with Disabilities Act," declared NCDR's founder and president, Jim Ward.
>>
>>
>>
>> NPR's Nina Totenberg has reported that McCain-Palin's and conservatives'
>> "most oft-mentioned prospects" for nomination to the Supreme Court include
>> Ohio Judge Jeffrey Sutton. Sutton was opposed by hundreds of disability
>> organizations when he was nominated by President Bush after successfully
>> weakening the ADA with states' rights arguments. As a sitting judge, he
> has
>> recently supported the execution of criminals with developmental
>> disabilities and has undermined the Help America Vote Act(HAVA).
>>
>>
>>
>> Disability rights advocates are further incensed that the McCain-Palin
>> campaign has reframed this civil rights struggle, one founded in concepts
> of
>> equality, dignity and self-respect, as an issue of "special needs."
>>
>>
>>
>> Disability rights advocate, Steve Gold states, "Yes we need support
>> services. Yes we need inclusive education. Yes we need integrated
>> employment. Yes we need equal rights. This not "special". These needs are
>> based on us, people with disabilities, equal members of our communities.
> We
>> are not inspirational nor are we "special". We are PROUD PEOPLE WITH
>> DISABILITIES who should push back when anyone describes us as anything but
>> equal members of our communities."
>>
>>
>> The National Coalition for Disability Rights is a nonpartisan nonprofit
> that
>> does not endorse political candidates.  We are a coalition of national,
>> state and local disability, civil rights and social justice organizations
>> united to protect and promote the human rights of children and adults with
>> physical and mental disabilities.
>>
>>
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