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Do Recent Elections Mean New Agenda for People with Developmental Disabilities?
Nov 13, 2006 by Ric Swierat | 1 comments
The elections are now over, and we have some significant change in representation in Washington and Albany. Over the past few years, we have had both successes and failures in legislation affecting the lives of people with disabilities. Do you see any opportunities for a new agenda regarding issues that may be important in the lives of people with disabilities? What should organizations such as The Arc of the U.S., NYSARC and Westchester Arc ask of our representatives in Washington and Albany?
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Ric Swierat | Jan 7, 2008
Every election, local, state or national, is an opportunity for people with developmental disabilities to be heard. There are a number of things we should be doing right now to get on the radar of each candidate.
1. Whenever you communication (and you should often) with a political candidate or office holder, identify yourself as a consitutent with an interest in people with developmental disabilities.
2. Make sure you and anyone in your family, including the person with developmental disabilities takes advantage of the right to vote.
3. Read the positions that are currently posted on the candidates' websites and read their speeches. If you don't see anything about people with disabilities, call or write them. They should know that we are watching.
4. Identify one or two things you feel passionate about and tell them. It could be educational funding, or medicaid, or job development or medical supports...but pick something to focus on.
5. Get your friends involved. Numbers are important to the candidates. Elections are important...and if we don't participate, we will get back nothing, because we are then invisible.