[NFBNJ] Follow-up With Senator Menendez on HR 620 Good Job With Senator Booker

[joe ruffalo]

Greetings to all!
Thanks for all that contacted Senator Booker. Details are below.  GREAT JOB!
We need to Contact SenatorRobert Menendez with the info provided by Ryan 
Stevens, Legislative Director, NFBNJ.
Each voice can make a difference!
Joe

**

Greetings, NFBNJ members,


We just found out that Senator Corey Booker has agreed to sign onto a letter
of opposition of HR 620. When you call him, please thank him for doing that.
This will encourage him to follow through. There are 26 other Senators who
will be signing that letter. Unfortunately, New Jersey's other Senator,
Robert Menendez, is not one of them. Please contact Senator Menendez's
office and ask him to add his name to those in opposition. Also ask your
family, friends and neighbors to do the same. His Washington office phone
number is (202) 224-4744. For his New Jersey offices, the number in Newark
is (973) 645-3030, and the Barrington office phone number is (856) 757-5353.


When you call, please mention the reasons we are opposed to a Senate version
of HR 620. Let him know that 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.


As you can see, our advocacy is vital. Thank you for your efforts in making
sure we continue to live the lives we want.

Take care,

   Ryan

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



-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://nfbnet.org/pipermail/nfbnj_nfbnet.org/attachments/20180307/a35dc5f5/attachment.html>