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In an effort to inform our members of the candidates’ policy priorities and concerns, ADAPT, AAPD, NCIL, and SABE have created questions that address the issues most important to our members. We would like candidates to respond to these questions with the intention of sharing candidates’ answers not only to our own members but also beyond our membership bases by posting the responses on our websites and circulating the responses over our national email listservs. Tell the Presidential Candidates Disability Rights Matters!Contact the Presidential candidates' campaigns. Tell them that knowing where the candidates stand on disability rights is important to you. Ask them to have the candidates respond to the ADAPT / AAPD / NCIL / SABE list of questions that was sent to them earlier this year and to send responses electronically to Anne Sommers at aapdanne@earthlink.net. If they say they have not yet received any of the information you reference, offer to provide them with a copy of the cover letter (PDF) and the questions (Word Document), and be prepared to fax, email, or hard copy mail it to them. More than 600 people participated in the Presidential Candidates’ Forum: A National Forum on Equality, Opportunity and Access in Manchester, hosted by Granite State Independent Living, the National Council on Independent Living, and some 28 organizations on behalf of Americans with disabilities. Candidates who participated in the Forum included: Senators Clinton (D-NY), Biden (D-DE), Dodd, and Gravel (R-AK), Representative David Bonior (D-MI) on behalf of Senator John Edwards (D-NC), and Representative Dennis Kucinich (D-OH). Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) participated in the Forum by phone from the campaign trail. Each candidate spoke about their policy agendas to enhance the lives of people with disabilities and then answered three questions from New Hampshire attendees. Read summaries, transcripts, and news coverage.
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