Beezley would rather see Colorado be in charge of access requirements
The Denver Post’s Spot blog reported today that Colorado House candidate Don Beezley apologized to members of the Colorado Cross Disability Coalition for his disparaging comments about the Americans with Disabilities Act.
As posted on a Broomfield Democrats website, Beezley said, that the “ADA took other human beings from being someone with a challenge whom it might be a joy to help, and turned them into a burden. An enemy.”
The Post did not ask Beezley if he opposes the ADA. So I asked him, to fill in the journalistic gap.
He told me he supports the government insuring that people with disabilities have “access.” But he’d prefer that the state, not the federal government, make its own laws like the ADA. He’d rather not see the federal government involved.
Nonetheless, despite his frustrations with the federal ADA, he supports it.