Senator (R) used free movie pass (Wanted disabled kicked out)

[usregimechange]

A caregiver for the disabled who tangled with a state senator last month at a Joplin movie theater said Thursday that she was shocked to learn the politician had attended the matinee on a complimentary pass given to lawmakers.

"I am even more amazed and outraged," said Amanda Richardson, 20, of Joplin, a certified nurse's aide and college student whose summer job is to provide care for developmentally disabled adults at a Joplin group home run by Skills Unlimited, of Nevada...

"It is such a rare treat as well as a great expense and effort for the fixed income disabled I work with to attend a movie," she said in a prepared statement. "And to think, he wanted to send us back out into the heat that day, while he could attend all the free movies he wanted on a lobbyist pass."

http://www.joplinglobe.com/story.php?story_id=201013&c=87



http://www.senate.mo.gov/05info/members/mem32.htm

[rateyes]

1. That's the "moral values" party for you! eom

[usregimechange]

2. He is getting some heat for it even in this area, Rethug country

[rateyes]

9. Good. I hope the heat

is hot enough to burn him! We need people like that in govt. like a chicken needs Col. Sanders.

[yorkiemommie1]

3. whatta guy

whatta chickenshit guy.


so much for ' compassionate conservatism '. I asked him about the Golden Rule and how Jesus said, " Whatever you do to the least of my brethren you do to me ". That's always stuck w/ me.

[tk2kewl]

4. What a prick

Nodler argued that disabled people should not be allowed to attend movies if they cannot do so without disturbing other patrons. "(Being) disabled is not a license to act inappropriately," he told the Globe.

...but a guess being a Republican is a license to be an asshole :grr:

[Pab Sungenis]

17. That's why....

DeMarco Cinemas, at least, offers private, discounted screenings to groups from ARC, Senior Care, and other group homes.

[SalmonChantedEvening]

5. More of the "Beautiful Mind" mentally

How dare his free movie be ruined by those... 'lessers'

:puke:

[Richard Steele]

6. I know who I'm nominating for the "Top Ten Conservative Idiot"!

[usregimechange]

7. Write an oped to this paper:

[e-mail]; [e-mail]

[usregimechange]

10. Those are the editors by the way.

[MichiganVote]

8. Little Princes, that's what our rep's think they are nowadays

[nookiemonster]

11. In the land of Blunt,

this does not surprise us.

Sadly.




Prick.

[faithnotgreed]

12. heres a swift kick for gary nodler

shameful tool

[faithnotgreed]

13. good to see that most of the comments to this story are

telling him where to go

there is even a post that suggests nodler later threatened to have funding cut to the disabled program called "skills unlimited"
dont know if its true or not but would be interesting to find out the truth

[usregimechange]

15. Working on that...

[usregimechange]

16. I just e-mailed a buddy that works there. Networking pays.

:hi:

[faithnotgreed]

18. awright usregimechange - you rock

love the du "phone tree"

[usregimechange]

19. thx What is the phone tree?

[faithnotgreed]

20. using your contacts (in this case to get some answers)

[jillan]

14. People like him are NOT going to heaven.

[FreedomAngel82]

21. Simply disgusting

It always pisses me off how these people claim religion and "moral values" (whatever) and then they turn around and do something this low and disgusting. Funny how you never hear about a democrat doing things like this. Gross. What a cheap jerk!

[LSU_Subversive]

22. know how much devel disabled folks usually get paid at work?

it's obscene. we're talking nowhere even close to minimum wage.
granted, they usually receive medicaid/medicare and often the work-load is very light. it really isn't easy for them to afford going to the movies or even fastfood. he should be ashamed of himself, but he's a rethug, so it's safe to assume that he isn't.

"Richardson said she has received no disciplinary action, and that she plans no apology. Last week, one of Richardson's co-workers who witnessed part of the encounter said Richardson was telling the truth, and that her supervisor commended her for standing up for the disabled."

i hope that AR, the coworker, and her supervisor are all receiving the praise and support that they deserve for standing up to the creep.