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Meagan Wolfe
stated on November 5, 2021 in TV interview:

"Only a court can decide that somebody is incompetent to vote" -- the state Election Commission "cannot force facilities, private facilities, to allow special voting deputies" inside.

By D.L. Davis • November 18, 2021
Rosemary Laird
stated on March 14, 2017 in a Florida Senate committee hearing:

"Currently, half a million Floridians have Alzheimer’s disease, and in less than 10 years, a 40 percent growth rate means that another 200,000 Floridians will develop this devastating illness."

By Louis Jacobson • March 14, 2017
Hillary Clinton
stated on September 12, 2016 in an interview on CNN:

"You've got a medical report on me that meets the same standard as Mitt Romney and Barack Obama."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • September 14, 2016
Tom Harkin
stated on July 26, 2016 in in a speech at the Democratic National Convention:

Says "employers are still allowed to pay people with disabilities below the minimum wage."

By Taylor Leighton • August 12, 2016
Scott Walker
stated on July 26, 2015 in a tweet:

Wisconsin's pension system is the "only one fully funded in the country."

By Tom Kertscher • August 14, 2015
Rick Scott
stated on March 5, 2013 in a State of the State speech:

"For the first time in eight years, our budget also increases funding for persons with disabilities by $36 million to help more disabled people receive community-based services."

By Amy Sherman • March 7, 2013
Chris Christie
stated on February 21, 2012 in his budget speech:

"New Jersey has the second highest rate of institutionalization" of people with developmental disabilities "in America. Only Texas puts more of its citizens -- confines more of its citizens -- to institutions than New Jersey. "

By Erin O'Neill • February 26, 2012
Tom Coburn
stated on December 1, 2010 in a meeting of the Simpson-Bowles deficit commission:

"One in 19 Americans today get SSDI or SSI. That's one in 19 Americans (who) are disabled."

By Louis Jacobson • December 14, 2010
Margaret Gomez
stated on February 15, 2010 in a campaign flier.:

Says she "stopped Capital Metro from raising fares for senior and disabled citizens."

By Ciara O'Rourke • February 22, 2010