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Dear Readers: As the cabinet members lined up to run for office Crist, Sink and McCullum, a very simple plan evolved on how to take them out. The premise was "no one wants to elect an ADA violator." For years, I have made the SayfieReview.com my home page. This website has all the articles and blogs from newspapers across Florida. Many times, not every single day, I would comment on the articles regarding the Governor's Race. I would identify the Cabinet members as ADA Violators. And I would tell about how the restrooms on Crist's, Sink's and McCullum's floors were not accessible for people who are confined to wheelchairs. Often I mentioned that they were recently remodeled with tax dollars and still did not upgrade these restrooms for people in wheelchairs. I told the general public that Sink's Office had the canceled checks of the contractors who got paid for the illegal remodeling. And that Sink did not want to investigate these misused tax dollars. I began to feel like a parrot, and tried to make the comments different each time. I always referred to the ADA Capitol Report, at www.dignity4disabled.com where it has languished since 2004 and how no one in the Cabinet and Florida government wanted to make the very late ADA changes to make our capitol building barrier free. The dignity website was revised June 9, 2009. It did not get that many "hits" up until I began commenting on all the state newspaper articles. Since June 9, 2009, the web site as of November 3 has had 64,689 "hits" or visits. Today, just after the election, it has 168 hits. Why 168 hits today? The election is over and I have not been commenting on the state newspaper articles for 2 days now. The bottom line is that people with disabilities and people without disabilities learned about the ADA Capitol Report, via the www.dignity4disabled.com web site, passed the word and now the violators are now in "retirement". We took the State's biggest three ADA violators out. Because of the narrow margin, we, people with disabilities, and our supporters, elected a governor. Each vote beyond 2,527,499 which is 1, are the many voters against the ADA Capitol violators. Since 64,689 people visited the web site to see about the ADA Capitol Report, you can believe they e-mailed their friends and other people with disabilities. No one wants to elect a known ADA violator. In Miami-Dade County there was a County Commissioner race between Ms. Lynda Bell and Mr. Eugene Flinn. Mr. Flinn was a mayor of Palmetto Bay and ran my butt ragged with his access code violations at businesses and in the Palmetto Government Building for 8 years. And a new park loaded with ADA violations. Not a single door sign in the government building is ADA compliant. Well, I have developed many lists of people with disabilities and other lists in Miami Dade County and I used them to identify the ADA Violator running for the County Commission. And I sent them information on the ADA violator Flinn. By a miracle, Lynda Bell, has won the election with a narrow margin of 456 votes. Again, people with disabilities and without disabilities, decided not to elect a known ADA violator. We have sent another "fool the general public" ADA violator into retirement of government work. Regarding the state races, for all that time, skimming the articles and doing the comments that generated 64,689 "hits" it is time to just say "Mission Accomplished". What is laughable is that many newspapers who had endorsed the ADA violators, were the same newspapers that I had been making comments to news articles for many months. And that embarrassing State of Florida Capitol Building loaded with ADA violations? That the Obama/DOJ Civil Rights Division has ignored for two more years? If the "retiring" politicians, beaten, do not institute the right actions so that Scott does not inherit a building filled with restrooms that people in wheelchairs cannot use, missing blind signage systems, and Scott does not pledge to make the building ADA compliant by March 2011,the starting date of the Florida Legislature I will soon sue in Federal Court. If I can't find a lawyer willing to sue, it will not be the first time I sued in Federal Court without a lawyer. I'm just worn out trying to get government to do the right thing under the 20 year old Americans With Disabilities Act. Denny R. Wood President Florida Paraplegic Association, Inc., est. 1957 This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it 305-253-2563 cc: Everywhere Newspapers screen name "dignity4" |
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