NEW: At a debate for the District 10 council seat, Denver City Councilman Chris Hinds was forced to crawl onstage because there was no wheelchair access. “It was a choice between my campaign’s viability or my dignity,” he said.
Denver City Councilman Chris Hinds couldn’t maneuver his wheelchair onto the stage at the Cleo Parker Robinson dance school Monday afternoon. The venue didn’t have a ramp for him.for the city’s District 10 council seat, he said he’d have to forfeit about $125,000 in campaign financing from Denver’s Fair Elections Fund.So the councilman said he had to climb out of his wheelchair and crawl onto the stage in front of the debate crowd of several dozen people.
The Cleo Parker Robinson Dance school served as both the sponsor and venue for the debate, which was facilitated by the Denver Clerk and Recorder’s Office. Neither organization immediately provided comment.Americans with Disabilities Act “It’s kind of hard really to say that this is excusable at this point,” Hinds said. “I really hope that this is a teachable moment of why it’s important to have a government that’s representative of all the people, and why it’s important to have disability representation on Council.”
“That someone didn’t even do some basic checking on who the elected council member is for the debate that we’re having is kind of nuts,” he said. “And then that they thought ‘Oh, we’ll just lift him up’ is also nuts.”, requiring candidates to participate in public debates in order to receive public funding for their campaigns. Denver’s Clerk and Recorder tracks whether candidates and debate sponsors follow Fair Election Fund guidelines.
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