[NFBNJ] Important notice NFBNJ members concerning Senator Corey Booker

[joe ruffalo]

Greetings to all!
With snow on the forecast, staying home and watching the snowflakes fall, 
please find the time to contact Senator Corey Booker.
The following should be done on Wednesday, March 7 and or Thursday, March 8.
However, just get it done as soon as possible.

ryan Stevens, NFBNJ Legislator Director, has provided the information to 
review.
Let’s make the call, let’s make a difference!

We care. We share. We grow. We make a difference
Joe Ruffalo, President
National Federation of the Blind of New Jersey
973 743 0075
nfbnj1 at verizon.net
www.nfbnj.org
Raising Expectations To Live The Life We Want!

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Received fromRyan Stevens, NFBNJ Legislative Director.
Subject: Senator Booker and the ADA Education and Reform Act.


Greetings, NFBNJ members,


We have heard from NFB's National Governmental Affairs Office that New
Jersey Senator Corey Booker is being pressured by shopping centers and other
businesses to introduce a Senate version of HR 620, the ADA Education and
Reform Act. As you probably know, NFB, along with every other disability
advocacy group, opposed HR 620, which unfortunately  passed in the House of
Representatives, and we need to try to dissuade Senator Booker from
supporting similar legislation in the Upper Chamber.


The ADA Education and Reform Act would force a person with a disability who
has been denied access to a public accommodation to first dotify the
offending business within two months. The business would then have an
additional two months not to fix the violation, but to make "substantial
progress" toward addressing it before legal action could be taken. This
means that a barrier to equal accommodation could remain in place for an
additional 120 days with no guarantee that it would be fully remedied. This
would completely gut the Americans with Disabilities Act, a law that has
been around for 27 years, and would allow discrimination of the disabled by
the business community. For the blind, this would include such things as
continued inaccessibility of online shopping and banking sites, loss of
privacy regarding medical information, and the inability to order from a
restaurant menu independently.


We are asking all NFBNJ members, family, friends and neighbors  to call 
Senator Booker to express your
opposition to the introduction of this legislation. The phone number for his
Washington, DC office is (202) 224-3224, his Newark, NJ office phone number
is (973) 639-8700, and the number for his Camden, NJ office is (856)
338-8922. We need to stop the ADA Education and Reform Act where it stans,
so please make your calls. Thank you for your attention to this matter.


Ryan Stevens, Legislative Director
National Federation of the Blind of New Jersey
(856) 240-1497
rysteve at comcast.net


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