Denver ADAPT meets McCain
Denver ADAPT caught up with prez hopeful John McCain on Monday at a Town Hall meeting in Denver to kick off a series of such meetings across the nation. I’ll let them tell what happened. Here’s Dale with the story:
Denver ADAPT met with the Republican presumptive presidential candidate John McCain at a Town Hall Meeting today. Six members of ADAPT, including teenagers from the Summer Youth Program, sat in the front of the auditorium to listen to Mr. McCain’s policies for his administration. When he took comments from the audience he handed the microphone to our own Dawn Russell. She reminded him that he had had 40 activists arrested in his offices in D.C. to which he promptly agreed. Then she explained the legislation called the Community Choice Act and asked him why he was not signed on. Mr. McCain stated he would not support the legislation. He then offered several poor reasons for his decision and ended by saying we would have to let the voters decide that one. Having recaptured the microphone he did state he supported the ADA, but had no interest in hearing that the ADA had little to do with CCA. ADAPT members in silent protest left the auditorium. ADAPT has an answer — for now.
I hear McCain’s going to be in Ohio and Pennsylvania soon. Disability activists should be following him and Obama around the nation putting important questions to them about issues that concern us, because it’s obvious that they won’t raise them in public on their own!