----- Original Message ----- From: "Mr. Liberal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, July 03, 2000 3:53 PM Subject: [July30] FWD: [jfa: Bush Awarded Salon.com's "Lie of the Week"] > July 30 in Philly - www.unity2000.com > > Subject: Bush Awarded Salon.com's "Lie of the Week" > > > > Justice For All > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Bush Awarded Salon.com's "Lie of the Week" > > National media cover disability debate. > > Jake Tapper, Salon.com, June 30, 2000, WASHINGTON, writes: > > "Lie of the Week > > Whose lie is it, anyway? > > When it comes to George W. Bush's record on people with disabilities, > Gore and Bush each say the other is truth-challenged. > > At the height of a campaign swing in which Gov. George W. Bush to benefit > people with disabilities, the campaign of Vice President Al Gore was rude > enough to say that Bush's Texas record on disabilities was wanting. > And the Bush people got PO'ed pretty quick. > > What had Gore said? > > That "Bush fought against a U.S. Supreme Court decision favoring people > with disabilities who want to live in their own communities rather than > institutions." > > That "protesters in wheelchairs demonstrated outside Bush's mansion > against his support of Texas Attorney General John Cornyn's position" > on the Supreme Court case Olmstead vs. L.C., in which the state of > Georgia was sued by two disabled women who wanted to live in communities > rather than in an institution. > > The Gore campaign also noted that in February 1999, "fifteen > protesters, most in wheelchairs, were arrested for trespassing as they > protested Texas' decision" to side with Georgia in the case. > > Harsh rhetoric indeed against a man who had spent the week declaring > that "Our goal now is clear: to remove the last barriers to full and > independent lives for all Americans with disabilities." The Gore camp > charged that just over a year ago, Bush was fighting to keep barriers > for two disabled women to have full and independent lives. > > So on Wednesday, Team Bush sent out a press release hammering Gore for > having "blatantly misrepresented Governor Bush's record on improving > access and independence for Texans with disabilities." > > Gore was just lying again, the Bush campaign said. "Texas is recognized > as a leader in responding to the Supreme Court decision. ... Shortly > after the Supreme Court ruled on the Olmstead case, Governor Bush gave > an executive order explicitly calling for a review of the Texas system > in light of the Supreme Court ruling and changes to comply with the > ruling." > > So which is it? Bush's father, President George Bush, was a leader in > the fight for the groundbreaking Americans with Disabilities Act, after > all. Surely this was another example of Gore's shaky alliance with the > truth. > > Not so fast. For one thing, the Bushies don't deny Gore's claim that > their man supported his attorney general's decision to file a brief > siding with the state of Georgia-and against disability rights > advocates-in the Olmstead decision. > > Nor are the Bushies disputing that 15 protesters-most of whom were in > wheelchairs-were arrested outside the back gates of the Governor's > mansion, where they'd congregated to protest what the disability rights > organization ADAPT called "the intent of the state to keep people with > disabilities warehoused in nursing homes and other institutions-against > their will." > > According to Clay Robison, the Houston Chronicle's Austin bureau chief, > "the demonstrators hardly posed a threat to public safety, much less to > the governor, who wasn't even home at the time. But they had ignored > officers' orders to clear the exit." So they were arrested, many of > them spilling from their wheelchairs. > > Bush's response at the time? "They criminally trespassed. They were > given due warning." > > So if the Bushies don't deny any of these facts, what was the Gore camp > lying about? Maybe they were hoping that no one would read past the > headline on their press release. > > So how is Bush's record on disabilities? > > "It hasn't been great," says Michael Auberger, national organizer and > cofounder of ADAPT, which stands for American Disabled for Attendant > Programs Today. "He opposed the Olmstead decision, which was a Supreme > Court decision that pretty much says that people with disabilities have > a right to live in the community and use Medicaid dollars and have that > choice." > > The Bushies don't try to dispute this. But they point out that after > Georgia lost the case in a 6-to-3 decision that came down on June 22, > 1999, Bush gave an executive order to review the Texas system in light > of the Supreme Court ruling. And the campaign cites the Bush > proclamation in response to the Supreme Court ruling beneath the header: > "Texas is recognized as leader in responding to the Supreme Court > decision." > > "That stretches the truth a long way," says ADAPT's Auberger. "He > hasn't done anything to initiate Olmstead in Texas. Up until-believe > it or not-about a week ago, George Bush hadn't supported anything for > disabilities including the ADA. But he has now taken a political > position that is significantly different from that." > > Now, Auberger says, Bush says "that the Olmstead position should be > supported, he now has very strong support for the ADA; all of a sudden > he's supporting all these disability issues. I don't know if his father > got to him, or he got religion, or what." > > It should be noted that Auberger is no Gore man, either. "Al Gore's > support of the disability community-as with the administration-has > been lukewarm at best," he says. > > When I call the Bush campaign to clarify where the "blatant > misrepresentation" of the Bush record is, I'm put through to Ray > Sullivan. Didn't Bush support the state of Georgia in the Olmstead > decision? > > "I know that the attorney general did file an amicus brief based on > some federalist concerns," Sullivan says. "And as you know, the > attorney general is elected here independent of the governor." > > Right, but Bush had supported the attorney general in that decision, > right? > > "It wasn't so much an issue of serving and caring for the disabled, but > whether the state or the federal government should be in charge of > caring for them on the state level," Sullivan says. > > Great, but where's the misrepresentation of the Bush record on the > disabled? > > "The Gore folks were trying to attack the governor on being opposed to > community care," Sullivan says. "The governor supported the goal of > community care. He had concerns, as did the state of Texas, about some > of the issues of federalism in the case." > > But the Gore people don't say that Bush opposes community care, I say. > Just that he sided with Georgia in that Supreme Court decision, and that > there were disabled protesters arrested outside his mansion. Where's the > "blatant misrepresentation"? > > "The misrepresentation is the implication that the governor did not > support community care and is opposed to the Olmstead decision," > Sullivan says. > > Perhaps mindful of the fact that their utterances are judged > meticulously, the Gore people were precise in their accusation. The > charge doesn't say anything about Bush's general position on community > care, even back then, and it does conclude that Bush's position on > Olmstead is now different. > > "Bush now says he will enter an Executive Order supporting the most > integrated community-based settings for individuals with disabilities, > pursuant to the Olmstead decision, and call for the identification and > removal of barriers to community placement," the Gore statement reads- > bending over backwards (again, they kind of have to) to make sure that > the entire Bush record on this issue is presented. > > In fact, the Gore people even make sure that we know that during the > protest "Governor Bush was not at home." > > Just because Gore has a record of misrepresentin', that shouldn't mean > that we take Bush's word for it every time he cries "Lie." > > Because here, Bush was lying about what Gore was accusing him of. More > than that, Bush was lying about his own record-which is understandable, > considering what his record is. > > It's hard to imagine any candidate would want to own up to disabled > protesters spilling out of their wheelchairs in his backyard as his > security force arrests them, after all. It's not a shot you'll see in a > campaign brochure anytime soon. > > http://salon.com/politics/feature/2000/06/30/lie_week/index.html > > > -- > Fred Fay > Chair, Justice For All > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.jfanow.org > > Register to Vote Online at: http://www.fec.gov/votregis/vr.htm > For Your States's Election Resources: > http://www.iupui.edu/~epackard/eleclink.html > Project Vote Smart: http://www.vote-smart.org/ > > ===================================================================== > Justice-For-All FREE Subscriptions > To subscribe or unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with one or the other in the body of your message: > subscribe justice > unsubscribe justice > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Start Your Own FREE Email List at http://www.listbot.com/links/joinlb <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. 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