Greetings,

     Do you believe you, your family and your future are being protected by
one of the most powerful local Deaf advocacy system possible?

     I do not.  I am sick of complaints from the Deaf community reporting 
abuse of power, mismanagement, waste, incompetence and excuses!

     My local Deaf advocacy system is not doing it's job.  Our families, our 
neighbors and our workers deserve better.  I work very hard every day to
provide for our future as disabled citizens.  So why does my local Deaf advocacy 
system continually take more and more from us and give less and less back?

     Like you, I have worked very hard and taken responsibility for providing for
the future of the Deaf Community.

     Like you, I want to provide my children, and your children with the best
educational programs, employment opportunities, and civil rights protection 
system possible.  It has been my privilege to found and facilitate several 
projects to protect and improve our community and especially the lives of 
our young Deaf people:

    o Deaf Watch Newsletter - Educates and provides the Deaf community with vast
       resources and information and to help defend the rights of the disability
       community.

    o Deaf Workers of Orange County - Educates the local Deaf community of our
       rights to accommodations at the workplace and access to Orange County
       business.  Also connects Deaf workers to local legal and advocacy 
       resources.
                                      
    o Deaf Neighborhoods - Educates American businesses, medical facilities,
       police departments of our rights to equal access and treatment.  Provides
       interpreter and tax incentive information to the community so they will
       be given the opportunity to do business and work toward positive relations
       with the Deaf communities in the United States.  If we have to take 
       businesses to court, we will do it in the spirit of educating them.

     Like you, I hold true to my principles and convictions.  I have seen damage
caused by bad law, bad bylaws, and bad policies.  For example, are you aware that 
for all our efforts, 70% of the disability community remains unemployed.  Our 
present abilities to enforce the Americans with Disabilities Act isn't working.  
Cant we talk about it?  In September 1997, I called public attention to our failed
system to protect rights of the disabled at the workplace.  

      Major changes need to be made of my local Deaf advocacy system and their 
policies or bylaws.  As the founder of the Orange County Deaf Advocacy Center 
(OCDAC), my priorities will be to:

 o Treat every Deaf client as customers.
 o To keep confidential information in the strictest confidence.
 o To make OCDAC a role model for other disability organizations to follow.
 o To be very active in the enforcement of the Americans with Disabilities Act.
 o To provide the Deaf community support in their quest for success.
 o To represent the interests of the Deaf community.
 o To support Deaf clients fully in their quest for justice.
 o To encourage the local business to be more accessible to Deaf consumers.
 o To help remedy this so called blacklist system that existed since the 1950's.
 o To help remedy the crab theory system and support the Deaf advancing in society.
 o To help the Deaf community become contributors to society.

               "Pure Advocacy. No games, no excuses, no bull!"

       No more "bureaucracy as usual".  We have chosen our Deaf leaders needed
in Orange County.  If chosen to serve the Orange County Deaf Community, I will do 
what you will do if you were chosen.  Unlike many Deaf advocacy systems, I 
will not be manipulated by companies that discriminate members of the Deaf 
conmmunity.  Orange County Deaf Advocacy Center will NEVER NEVER double as 
billboards for companies that discriminate against the Deaf community.

       I ask that you support me to help the Deaf community in Orange County. 
Help me create one of the finest Deaf advocacy systems in the world.  Let us return pride, our culture, honor and fairness to Orange County.  Equality, integrity, 
respect, and new ideas.... I am Richard Roehm, and this is my promise to you.

Sincerely,
Richard Roehm

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Deaf Watch will continue to aggressively pursue justice, fairness, 
and equality for the Deaf Community as it has been doing since November 
1996.  We have chosen that EDUCATION is the best way accomplish this
objective.