April 8, 1998

Greetings,

I am furious that David H. Winston, Christine L. Olson, and Rea S. Hederman
who created the Congressional Ranking Book have excluded disabled people from
their research.

Congressional Ranking Book is a guide that is consulted by members of congress
for demographic composition of the districts they represent.

This can be found at http://www.heritage.org/heritage/cd_ranking/i-cdrank.html .

The conservative organization, The Heritage Foundation, is continuing one of
the popular conservative traditions which is the EXCLUSION OF DISABLED PEOPLE.

They said they got their information from the Census Bureau but they missed
out on Census Bureau Data on Disability information which can be located at
this location : http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/disable.html .

The exclusion of disabled people in their research is solid proof that the
conservatives think we are nothing, nobody, and non-persons.

This is one thing we all should remember when we go to the voting booth this
comming June and November.

Richard Roehm
Deaf@activist.com
Deaf Watch Newsletter

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