[nabs-l] Organizations express outrage over republicandisability policy

[Beth]

For your info, plightfully yours could not possibly be in the dictionary.  lol

On 11/2/08, Antonio Guimaraes <iamantonio at cox.net> wrote:
> Hello Beth, and all,
>
> I don't think McCane and Palen are against people with disabilities, as you
> point out in your post. They are aganst some things, as are you and me, but
> they are surely not aganst the disabled.
>
> I do feel the Obama camp gets it more about the 54 million of us with a
> disability, and would help our plight, yes, I said plight, more than the
> concervatives.
>
> Now, about plight, if you thing 70 percent unemployment rate does not
> qualify as plight, I don't know what does.
>
> So, rather than point out 70 percent of us are unemployed, lets hit the
> books, and other places to change this number.
>
> Plitefully yours,
>
> Antonio
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Beth" <thebluesisloose at gmail.com>
> To: "National Association of Blind Students mailing list"
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> Sent: Friday, October 31, 2008 4:56 PM
> Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Organizations express outrage over
> republicandisability 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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