Plan to limit aid alarms advocates for disabled

[Snellius]

Advocates for the disabled are calling it an ominous sign that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has proposed the first-ever suspension of a 35-year-old state law designed to protect services for the state's disabled residents and their caretakers.

Schwarzenegger made the suggestion as part of a sweeping package of midyear budget cuts to help shrink a multibillion-dollar deficit. Program supporters and their families, who plan to rally at the Capitol on Wednesday, say the cuts would create long waiting lists for services and devastate those caring for disabled relatives in their homes.

"For this administration to propose it out of the gate is cause for great alarm for people with disabilities and their families and their advocates," said Virginia Knowlton of Protection and Advocacy, a private, nonprofit law firm focusing on the civil rights of disabled people.
The new Republican governor is not the first to propose cutting back services for the disabled. But he is the first to call for the suspension of the Lanterman Act, which was written by former Republican Assemblyman Frank Lanterman and signed into law by then-Gov. Ronald Reagan, also a Republican.

Advocates call the law a "civil rights act" for the disabled.

http://www.sacbee.com/content/politics/ca/budget/story/7863652p-8803833c.html

[whathappened]

1. why in the world

would they give this idiot the keys to the state , he is a nut case and his wife is a fool for even standing along side of him , the diabled in this coutry need all the help they can get , they are not able to work and the pay is'nt good at all , they can not go out and join the work forse anymore and have to relie on a helping hand to just get by in this short life

[The Zanti Regent]

5. Ask the Whore Press and Diebold

they rigged the election for this piece of steroid-corroded shit!

[atreides1]

2. Oh Well

It looks like Californians got their choice, and I'll even bet some of the family members voted for Arnold.

This is what happens when you vote base on emotion, and you refuse to see that some of the candidates have no substance.

[prolesunited]

3. Straight from the RW playbook

Always attack the softest targets first. :grr:

[AndyTiedye]

4. The Power of a Controlled Press and Rigged Elections