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Subject: Disability Organizations Outraged by McCain-Palin Rally
Attacks on "the Disabled
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 13:36:08 -0400 (EDT)
From: ADA Watch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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ADAWatch.org
National Coalition for Disability Rights
1701 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Suite 300
Washington, DC 20006
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 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Marcie Roth, Executive Director
301-717-7447 or [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(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
Barack Obama for stating that he's looking to nominate judges
who empathize with "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 "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 isa 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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