Jeff Faust Fights for Americans with Disabilities
It has been 20 years since the Americans with Disabilities Act was signed into law, and still the more than 50 million Americans with some sort of disability continue to fight toward equality.
Jeff Faust, the Democratic candidate for the 124th State House District, is working hard to make his campaign about issues that effect his constituents, and this is one of them. Yesterday he joined residents of the district and Tamaqua Mayor Christian Morrison to encourage incumbent Rep. Jerry Knowles to install a wheelchair ramp at his district office.
Knowles' district office is not accessible to the handicapped, and meetings with disabled constituents often take place outside, on the sidewalk. Knowles said there is a "cost factor" involved in making the building handicapped-accessible.
Faust vowed to make his district office handicapped-accessible if he wins in November.
"I will make sure all of the people I represent, disabled or not, will have access at all of my district offices as state representative of the 124th," Faust told the Standard-Speaker.
Others in Tamaqua have gone out of their way to make their businesses accessible to wheelchairs, and Faust would do the same.
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