Fw: Justin Dart: America Needs Your Leaderhip!

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>
> Justice For All
>
> jfa@jfanow.org
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> Justin Dart: America Needs Your Leaderhip!
>
> Election 2000
> America needs your leadership.
> We vote Gore. You vote your conscience.
> We unite to defend democracy and
> make it real in every life.
>
> October 15, 2000
>
> Dear Colleague in Justice:
>
> THE COMING ELECTIONS ARE LIFE OR DEATH FOR DISABILITY RIGHTS AND
> DEMOCRACY.
> A powerful minority attacks ADA, IDEA and the American Dream. They
> threaten to repeal Abraham Lincoln democracy and take us back to states'
> rights and privilege for the few.
>
> THE NEXT PRESIDENT WILL APPOINT THE SUPREME COURT JUSTICES and sign the
> laws that will determine the future of our lives and of our
> democracy.
>
> WE SUPPORT AL GORE. As he has stated, he is not history's first perfect
> leader, but we believe that his record on disability rights and democracy
> is night and day better than that of Governor Bush and his far right
> supporters.
>
> ON THE TENTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT, GOVERNOR
> BUSH said "I strongly support the ADA," and we are sure he has done
> other good things. But the record is profoundly disturbing. During his
> term as governor, Texas opposed our ADA rights in the Olmstead case and
> declined to support the constitutionality of the ADA in the historic
> Garrett case. The official Texas Republican platform, under Governor
> Bush, calls for a devastating amendment to the ADA that would exclude
> millions of people with disabilities from protection. When seventeen
> Texas advocates gathered this year on the public sidewalk outside the
> Governor's Mansion to request a policy meeting, they were arrested.
>
> CLINTON-GORE HAVE LED AMERICA TO ITS GREATEST economy and quality of life.
> They have supported people with disabilities. They have defended our
> rights under ADA, IDEA, Medicaid and Medicare. They have supported us
> on universal health care, the Patients' Bill of Rights, the FDR Memorial,
> the Work Incentives Improvement Act, Real Choice Systems Change Grants,
> Hate Crimes, and accessible technology, accessible communications and
> accessible transportation. They have met with us, they have listened
> to us. They have empowered us in the executive branch as never before.
>
> AMERICA STILL HAS PROMISES TO KEEP. Clinton-Gore have not solved,
> could not have solved, all of the centuries old problems of people
> with disabilities. Millions of us are still unemployed and
> underemployed. Millions of us are still imprisoned in institutions,
> nursing homes and back rooms. We must pass MiCASSA and complete the
> whole spectrum of liberation and empowerment.
>
> WE BELIEVE AL GORE IS THE ONLY CANDIDATE who will lead us in our
> battle for equality and who will fight to defend democracy against
> the forces of retreat. That is why we are Abraham Lincoln, Teddy
> Roosevelt Republicans for Al Gore.
>
> WHATEVER VOTE YOUR CONSCIENCE DICTATES, AMERICA NEEDS YOUR LEADERSHIP
> in the closing days of this historic campaign. America needs your
> strong voice in whatever party for the values we know we share:
> lives of love, choices, productivity and dignity for all.
>
> LET US JOIN TOGETHER, Republicans, Democrats, independents. Let us
> embrace each other in reverence for individual human life. Let us
> reach out to all in our communities and urge them to vote for democracy
> on November 7th. Win or lose in any particular election, let us go
> forward in eternal solidarity for however long it takes to fulfill
> the Dream: America for all.
>
> We appreciate you. We love you. Together, we shall overcome.
>
>
> Justin and Yoshiko Dart
>
>
> Mr. Justin Dart, Jr.
> 907 6th St. S.W.
> Suite 516 C
> Washington, DC 20024
> 202-376-6219 (fax)
> 202-488-7684
>
>
> Nothing about us without us!
>
> The foundation of rights is empowerment. Power never gives rights.
> You have to be at the policy table. You have to have power as a
> member of government.
>
> Clinton-Gore have made their best contribution to disability rights
> in terms of empowerment. The President and the Vice President have
> met with us several times. Their staff has met with us hundreds of
> times. They have appointed an astounding number of top level disability
> rights leaders to their administration. Judy Heumann, Marca Bristo,
> Tony Coelho, Becky Ogle, Bob Williams, Paul Miller, John Lancaster,
> Jonathan Young, Bob Boorstin, Liz Savage, Gina McDonald, Michael Winter,
> Fred Schroeder, Debbie Robinson, Rae Unzicker, John Kemp, Kate Seelman,
> Susan Daniels, Howard Moses, Marilyn Golden, Hughey Walker, Kate Wolters,
> Yerker Andersson, Audrey McCrimon, Lilliam Rangel-Diaz, Shirley Ryan,
> Ela Yazzie-King, June Kailes, Pat Cannon, Curtis Richards and many more.
>
>
> --
> Fred Fay
> Chair, Justice For All
> jfa@jfanow.org
> http://www.jfanow.org
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