THE DENVER POST

10-03-00

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[image caption] DISABILITY PROTEST: Dan Ham of Denver, center, joins other members of the disability rights organization ADAPT at a protest Monday outside the White House. The group says Medicaid has an institutional bias favoring nursing-home 'bondage' over community-based care. Associated Press / Kamenko Pajic

DENVER ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2000
[Headline] Denver disabled activist among protesters in D.C.

Associated Press

WASHINGTON--A Denver man was one of dozens of disabled people in wheelchairs who blocked entrances to the Republican Party's headquarters for five hours Tuesday, demanding a meeting with George W. Bush.

The protest forced the cancellation of a fundraiser and kept party employees from leaving the build-ing, although some climbed out of first-floor windows. The protesters began dispersing after police prepared to make arrests.

"We accomplished as much as we could here," said Michael Auberger of Denver, a spokesman for Adapt, the group that organized the protest.

A quadriplegic since age 17, Auberger is executive director of the Atlantis Community in Colorado. He received a Colorado Martin Luther King Jr. Humanitarian Award this year.

Protesters want the Texas governor to sign a pledge supporting the 10-year-old Americans With Disabilities Act, a law barring dis-crimination and requiring wheelchair ramps and other accommodations Bush's father signed the legislation into law.

"A letter would have been sufficient but we will convey their request" for a meeting with Bush, said GOP spokesman Cliff May. "We asked them to take a look at the governor's record on disabilities issues."

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