“A state lawmaker who is paralyzed isn’t allowed to participate in committee meetings by phone under a legislative rule that he says keeps him from performing his job as well as he should,” the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports.
Wisconsin state Rep. Jimmy Anderson (D) “said the Assembly rule discriminates against him because he has difficulty getting to some meetings for health reasons… Republicans who control the Legislature have declined to accommodate his request to call into meetings.”
Said Anderson: “It’s the first time I’ve ever had to ask for simple dignities, right? It’s a frustrating thing to have to ask just to be included in the process.”
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