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A A News 10/27/95 [Headline] Protest outrages Michelle Engler FROM the Associated Press LANSING --- First Lady Michelle Engler says her support for free speech and the right to assemble gave way to fear and outrage when handicapped protesters demonstrated outside the governor's residence. "It was frightening. I felt totally helpless," she said Thursday of the protest two days earlier. "And I am still outraged and appalled by these tactics." Neither Gov. John Engler nor his wife was home when about 200 pro-testers gathered outside the governor's residence. But a nanny was there with the Englers' 11-month-old triplet daughters when nearly 70 of the protesters pushed through the outside gate and mussed on the front porch, shouting and chanting slogans and briefly pounding on the doors and windows. Six were cited for trespassing. "When they called me and told me what was happening, I was terrified...frightened," said Michelle Engler, who at the time was in Detroit, attending a luncheon where she was honored for her promotion of breast cancer awareness. "All I could think about was my 11-month-old babies." Michelle Engler, an attorney, described herself as "an avid advocate" of First Amendment rights of free speech and peaceably assembly. But Tuesday's demonstration was "over the line" she said. "It they want to picket, they should stay outside the gate. They can picket me, they can picket him," she said, referring to the governor. "But just stay away from my family." [Pulled quote] "It was frightening. I felt totally helpless." — Michelle Engler [article continues] The demonstration was organized by American Disabled for Atm:, tendant Programs Today, a Denver-based group that opposes Republican-backed changes in the federal Medicaid program. Those changes might deny home care for disabled persons and force them into nursing homes. The Medicaid changes are pending in Congress. But ADAPT officials said demonstrations were held in Lansing because of Republicans Gov. Eaglet's high-profile role in advising GOP lawmakers on welfare and Medicaid changes. The triplets were in the back of the house and were not directly exposed to the protesters. But Michelle Engler said they had sensed: the tension and anxiety. Michigan ADAPT organizer Bob Liston of Ypsilanti: "This is a nonviolent organization. We have not hurt anyone and do not intend to hurt anyone. But if Gov. Engler is going to get into national politics, he has to answer to folks nationally. We were doing what we felt was necessary to call attention to this critical issue." - ADAPT (971)
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The Detroit News AND Free Press Metro .. Sunday, October 29, 1995 [Headline] Engler staff lapse led to security breach of governor's home GEORGE WEEKS Gov. John Engler and First Lady Michelle Engler are rightly outraged at misguided demonstrators who pounded on doors and windows of their home while they were gone and their triplet daughters were in the kitchen with their nanny. The Englers are also understandably concerned about the rare and baffling security lapse that allowed wheelchair-bound demonstrators to scoot through an open gate on a driveway leading to the official governor's residence in the fashionable Moors River Drive section of Lansing. Make no mistake, an elite state police detail provides excellent around-the-clock security for the first family. When Engler travels, it is with well-trained plain-clothes troopers who know what to do and do it well. They are hard to spot, but they are there, and well armed. There is 24-hour security at the residence, assisted by a variety of electronic devices connected to monitors that guard outposts. An intruder would be foolhardy to try to scale walls or rush the residence day or night. Yet, in broad daylight on Tuesday, about 70 demonstrators, many in wheelchairs, were able to get to the front porch of the residence after the gate opened for a delivery. There should have been sufficient warning. The Denver-based ADAPT (American Disabled for Attendant Programs Today) declared in advance by press releases that they were coming to Lansing to protest planned GOP changes in the federal Medicaid program. There were about 200 demonstrators, most from outside Michigan. They had 150 rooms at the Radisson Hotel, two blocks from the Capitol. On Monday, they seized the GOP state headquarters for several hours, taking over the switchboard and blocking some staffers in their offices. They demanded to see Engler, who ironically supports their call for more funds for more care. They said they targeted Engler because "He's a high profile potential v-p"; he has the ear of House Speaker Newt Gingrich; and he frequently lobbies Congress on welfare and health care issues. Engler declined to meet with them, but Communications Director John Truscott did meet with them and outlined Engler's position in writing. Law enforcement authorities knew that ADAPT planned to demonstrate Wednesday at the Capitol where Michigan Militia demonstrators planned on Tuesday to protest against the UN. Extra security personnel were at the Capitol on Tuesday. Truscott said, "We had no idea they would hit the residence." But on Tuesday, although they did not announce it in advance, the handicapped demonstrators assembled at a park near the residence. They carefully watched the comings and goings at the residence before they made their move. Apparently they were not watched with sufficient care. Once they began going through the gate, security personnel were reluctant to swing the gate shut for fear of injuring some of them. The massive swinging gate, with black iron bars, takes about 10 seconds to close. Truscott said "It was a slow gate and they had very fast chairs. They came flying." Although 11-month-old Margaret, Hannah, and Madelene did not hear the protesters, Truscott said they were "so rattled" by all the security and other activity within the residence that they had a sleepless night. All of Michigan should feel violated because protesters, no matter how just their cause or how difficult their lives, were able to storm right up to Michigan's front porch. The way to agitate for funds for home care is not to attack someone else's home. It remains to be seen if they awakened interest in home care or caused a backlash. But by breaching the security ring around the governor's residence they delivered a wake-up call. Truscott said "Clearly, we'll take a very serious look" at security arrangements. For starters, there will be a gate that closes faster. Furthermore, when the gate is open, there will be more security personnel to thwart a rush on the residence. - ADAPT (97)
Rocky Mountain News, Tues., Oct. 19, 1992 Denver, Colo. RTD seeks to nullify handicap law By SUE LINDSAY News Staff Another skirmish in the ongoing battle waged by Denver’s handicapped to gain access to the city's bus system was staged Monday in Denver District Court, with the Regional Transportation District asking the court to declare the Colorado Handicapped Act unconstitutional. An organization of the handicapped has asked Judge Harold D. Reed to order RTD to purchase no buses that won't accommodate the handicapped and to retrofit older buses according to an agreement reached during a federal court case in 1979. The district court suit, filed in January, was triggered by RTD’s purchase of 89 buses to be delivered in 1983 without wheelchair lifts. RTD is trying to sidestep the provisions of that agreement, arguing that the federal regulations on which it was based no longer exist. RTD also wants the judge to declare the Colorado Handicapped Act unconstitutional because it is overbroad and too vague to be followed. THE JUDGE HEARD arguments by both sides Monday and said he will rule on the matter Nov. 9. Lawrence D. Stone, an attorney representing RTD, argued that the Colorado Handicapped Act is merely an expression of the Legislature's intention of how the handicapped should be treated. Stone argued that the statute prohibits discrimination but doe§n’t require any specific “affirmative actions” — such as buying only buses that contain wheelchair lifts. “The Legislature intended to enact the statute simply as an encouragement for the handicapped to be brought into the mainstream of society," Stone said. “They were encouraging rather than mandating better service for the handicapped. Any efforts are voluntary, and the voluntary efforts of RTD have been substantial.” Stone said that 50 percent of RTD buses are accessible to the handicapped during rush hour and all of them are during non-peak hours of operation. Stone also argued that the statute, which sets maximum criminal misdemeanor penalties of up to 60 days in jail and a $100 fine, is too vague and too broad to be enforced. Stone said the act doesn’t specifically define who is included and what must be done to comply with the statute. “We must guess at its meaning,” Stone said. "lt is clear that the act is a declaration of state policy. But is it a crime to fail to heed a policy of the state?” Stone argued that, apart from the Colorado statute, lawyers for the handicapped have misconstrued the meaning of a stipulation signed by RTD to resolve a federal suit over the handicapped buses issue. John Holland, an attorney representing the Atlantis Community, which filed the suit, said he and his clients understood that RTD was agreeing to purchase buses with wheelchair lifts and retrofit all buses purchased after February 1977 in compliance with federal regulations in effect at the time. Stone said RTD merely agreed that its “intention” was to achieve accessibility at the earliest practical date. He argued that RTD never promised that all of its buses would accommodate the handicapped. Calling the dispute “a legal and political war between the disabled and RTD," Holland said, "There was no doubt whatsoever that RTD knew for certain (that) what the plaintiffs wanted was total accessibility of buses. This has been our consistent demand everywhere. It's very simple what the agreement means. lt means that all buses must be made wheelchair accessible.” HOLLAND CHARGED THAT RTD was trying to weasel out of the agreement because the federal regulation in effect at the time it was reached has changed. At the time, federal regulations made it mandatory that new buses accommodate the handicapped. The mandatory regulation was dropped in July 1981, leaving the earlier regulation in force that encourages localities to do this and provides federal funding for the wheelchair lifts. “RTD made an agreement with us, and now RTD argues that it should not be bound by the settlement but to the law as it evolves and changes," Holland said. Reed called the stipulation “about as unclear a stipulation as I’ve ever read in my life. I don’t know what it means yet." The judge wondered aloud whether the parties had purposely used “tortured language” to solve the immediate problem, knowing they would wind up back in court. - ADAPT (969)
Detroit Free Press 10/26/95 [Headline] Capitol Blockade About 300 members of Americans Disabled for Attendant Programs Today (ADAPT), a group dedicated to better rights and services for the disabled, disrupted business Wednesday at the Capitol by blocking building entrances for about 45 minutes. State Police reopened an entrance at 1:30 p.m. and the protesters began to disperse at 3:30 p.m. after meeting with a representative of Gov. John Engler. Five were arrested for trespassing or disorderly conduct in the group's third day of protesting, State Police Inspector Gary Post said. ADAPT wants Engler, among other things, to ask House Speaker Newt Gingrich to propose earmarking 25 percent f the Medicaid nursing home budget for home and community services. [2 Images] [Caption for both images] Left: A worker jumps out a window at the Capitol in Lansing after demonstrators blocked all exits and entrances to the building Wednesday. Below: A student from Garfield School in Adrian breaks through the crowd of protesters at the Capitol. Students were touring the building and were blocked in by the demonstration. Police later cleared an exit. - ADAPT (968)
The Detroit News Thursday, October 25, 1995 [Headline] Disabled intensify protests [Subheading] Activists demonstrate in Lansing for third straight day; police arrest five. [Image] [Image caption] Protesters line up outside the Capitol on Wednesday, calling attention to fears that disabled people will be forced into nursing homes and out of private homes or other community care. The group of nearly 300 blocked entrances to the Capitol briefly. Photo by: Dale G. Young/The Detroit News - ADAPT (967)
[Headline] Wheelchair protesters [Subheading] Activists with disabilities travel so they can stay home Yvonne Duffy The 300 or so members of American Disabled for Attendant Programs Today (ADAPT) who stormed Gov. John Engler's residence and blocked entrances to the state Capitol in Lansing last week have dispersed, perhaps leaving in their wake more questions than answers. Who are these Wheelchair "terrorists," as administration officials called them, who demonstrate against government leaders and the health care industry to seek less Medicare spending for nursing homes and more money for in-home care? They are dedicated men and women, most with significant disabilities, who spend their own money to travel from all over the country to participate in ADAPT "actions." Some cut their protest teeth back in the 1960s. Others have come more recently to the disability movement, and are new to the idea that they may be able to influence their destiny. Many are former nursing home residents who have experienced firsthand the mind-numbing isolation, indifferent care (at best), and lack of freedom that inevitably accompany institutionalization. The woman who screamed from the governor's driveway, "Let (lawmakers) lie all night in their own (waste)" probably is a former nursing home resident. She understands all too well that once one undergoes such degradation, one is changed forever. The World Institute on Disability defines personal assistance services as "assistance of another with those tasks which individuals would normally do for themselves if they did not have a disability." ADAPT maintains that adequate personal assistance services and other support could enable one of every 10 nursing home residents to live in his or her own home, resulting in a better quality of life and reduced cost to taxpayers. [Image] [Image caption] Wayne Becker of Austin, Texas, and Hector Racine of Brandon, Vt., were among protesters at governor's house. File photo by Julian H. Gonzalez/Detroit Free Press. Why did ADAPT choose to turn the national spotlight on Michigan? As Republicans attempt to return more government power to the states, members of the Denver-based organization seek federal legislation that would unify the hodgepodge of services now administered by states. Since Engler is perceived as an influential force in a national welfare reform, ADAPT wants to educate him on the need to include community-based personal assistance services in the final package. Engler also is regarded as a close associate of House Speaker Net Gingrich, who was targeted by ADAPT last May. Gingrich has verbally endorsed the idea of national legislation governing personal assistance services. Yet he has not introduced in the House ADAPT's proposed Community-based Attendant Services Act (the measure's acronym, CASA, means "home" in Spanish). That bill, if passed, would make these services a reality. ADAPT members believe people with disabilities are the real experts on what they need. An essential feature of the CASA bill is consumer control, based on need rather than age or specific disability. This approach to independent living contrasts sharply with the medical model now used by most states to determine eligibility. To finance the proposed program, ADAPT calls for redirecting 25 percent of the current Medicare allocation for nursing homes. The proportion now earmarked for in-home assistance is less than five percent. The need is crucial: A 1992 Families USA study reported that 64 percent of Americans who needed personal assistance services could not get them. In Chicago last year, personal assistants struck for a day to protest their low wages and lack of benefits, stranding the employers who relied on them to get out of bed. Hiring honest, responsible people to provide personal assistance, for little more than the minimum wage and without health care or retirement benefits, is fast becoming next to impossible. In a healthy economy such as ours, these essential jobs are among the first to go unfilled, as demand for workers opens up higher-paying positions. What drives ADAPT members to undergo financial expense and personal hardship as they demonstrate around the country year after year, to try to focus attention on an issue about which few Americans care? They keep on because they are acutely aware--often from personal experience--of what most other people with disabilities can scarcely bear to acknowledge, because the specter is so horrifying. Each of us who must depend on personal assistance services to live is but a heartbeat away from a nursing home. Yvonne Duffy writes the "Disabled in America" column for the Free Press - ADAPT (966)
[Headline] Michelle Engler livid about protest [Subheading] Handicapped people at governor's mansion went over the line BY HUGH MCDIARMID Free Press Staff Writer She'd had two days to cool off, but on" Thursday, Michigan's first lady, Michelle Engler, was still furious. "It was frightening. I felt totally helpless," she said. "And I am still outraged and appalled by these the tactics." She was referring to Tuesday's raucous, surprise, midday demonstrations by more than 200 handicappers --most of them from out of state — at the governor's residence in Lansing. Neither Michelle nor Gov. John Engler was at home. But their triplet daughters, whose first birthday comes in 18 days, were there being cared for by a nanny. Sixty-seven protesters, many in wheelchairs, pushed through the outside gate and massed on the front porch, periodically shouting and chanting slogans and, for a tune, pounding on the doors and windows. The others demonstrated on the street and curb out front. "These people were banging on doors and windows . terrorizing innocent people inside," said Michelle Engler, who, at the time, was attending a Cobo Hall luncheon in Detroit she was honored for her work on breast-cancer awareness. "When they called me and told me what was happening, I was terrified...frightened. All I could think about was my 11-month-old babies." Engler, a 36-year-old attorney, described herself as "an avid advocate" of the First Amendment, including free speech and the right to peaceably assemble, but she said Tuesday's demonstration was "over the line." "If they want to picket, they should stay outside the gate. They can picket me, they can picket him," she said, referring to the governor. "But just stay away from my family." See ENGLER, Page Six (unavailable at this time) [This page also continues the article from Image 952. See 952 for full text] - ADAPT (965)
Detroit Free Press Saturday, October 28, 1995 Hugh McDiarmid Politics [Headline] GOP in a dither to find Bonior foe Demonstration Redux: Engler's staff went ape and his wife, Michelle, loudly condemned it. But the governor's own reaction to Tuesday's demonstration at the governor's residence by 200-plus handicapped home-care advocates was...well, softer. On WWJ-AM radio's "Ask the Governor" Thursday, he labeled it "guerrilla theater, 1990s style." But he said the goal was to get media attention and, in that, they were "pretty effective." - ADAPT (964)
PHOTO: Yet another scene inside the bookstore. ADAPT folks filling the aisles so it would be difficult to get through the store. JT Templeton is in a blue hat and blue ADAPT shirt holding something, possibly a whistle on a string, in front of his chest. to his left in a tie dye ADAPT shirt with her beautiful red hair is Sharon ____ of Denver, an escapee from Tennessee where there were no attendant services. - ADAPT (963)
PHOTO: Another scene inside the bookstore. ADAPT folks filling the aisles with book displays all around. Linda from Pennsylvania is at the center with a white sweatshirt. Someone on a vent is sitting behind her and someone in a Kansas ADAPT sweatshirt is standing behind her amid the displays. - ADAPT (962)
PHOTO: Mike Oxford stands in the middle of displays of books, a Waldenbooks sign over his head. He is using a megaphone. Around him are ADAPT protesters filling the aisles of the store. LaTonya Reeves is behind him in a read coat, and in front Randy from California looks down at his lap. This is the protest of Gingrich at a bookstore carrying his new book. - ADAPT (961)
This is a photo of further inside the same office. There is a line of ADAPT folks mostly in chairs snaking through the desks and tables. The room is lit by florescent lights, there is a coke machine and a Bush poster on the wall. A doorway in the far wall shows that ADAPT has penetrated in to other rooms in the building. Thom Wilson is looking at papers on a desk but behind him a couple of women working on computers are somewhat visible. Pat ___ from Georgia has part of her head visible at the bottom of the picture; behind her Ken Heard is heading into the room with his head back, ponytail hanging down. - ADAPT (960)
PHOTO: Double doors to an office are held open by two standing ADAPT members while two lines of folks in wheelchairs enter the office. In the doorway on the left is Bobby Simpson. On the far wall of the office you can see a line of equipment, a clock and a photo of a man. The office appears to be filling up with ADAPT members. This is probably the Michigan Republican Party Headquarters.