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Bush's disability proposal
is called detail-challenged
■ Local organizations say the
president’s plan has potential
but needs implementation
By Lisa Toth
Oregon Daily Emerald
President George W. Bush’s mul
ti-million dollar plan intended to
aid disabled Americans has poten
tial, but the recent proposal isn’t
detailed enough to indicate how it
will impact people with disabili
ties, according to members of vari
ous local organizations that offer
disability services.
The “New Freedom Initiative”
that Bush sent Congress on Feb. 1
is a set of proposals to ensure that
all Americans with disabilities can
lead active lives in their communi
ties and country, aiming to speed
up progress and opportunities for
disabled people.
Bush is expected to make an an
nouncement today concerning the
details of his proposal, according
to Jan Campbell, a disability proj
ect coordinator with the Office of
Neighborhood Involvement in
Portland.
“It’s a wonderful concept, but
we need to have the backing, the
implementation and the monitor
ing to enforce it,” Campbell said.
The series of proposals that
could potentially help disabled
Americans offers an increase in
spending for research and devel
opment and provides low-interest
loans to help disabled people buy
computers and other equipment
needed to work from home.
“Wherever a door is closed to
anyone because of a disability, we
must work to open it. Wherever
any job or home, or means of trans
portation is unfairly denied be
cause of a disability, we must work
to change it,” Bush said in a White
House press release. “Wherever
any barrier stands between you
and the full rights and dignity of
citizenship, we must work to re
move it, in the name of simple de
cency and simple justice.”
The plan would also increase
state spending for educating dis
abled students and support 10 pi
lot projects to develop transporta
tion plans for the disabled. The
proposal would also create a na
tional commission on mental
health to study the nation’s deliv
ery system of health services.
University Disability Services
Counselor Molly Sirois said the
proposal was too general to predict
whether the plan would increase
the program’s spending abilities.
Bush did not provide spending
figures Thursday, but during a
campaign stop in June, he pro
posed creating a $5 million annual
fund to provide technical assis
tance for small businesses that face
financial burdens in complying
with laws affecting people with
disabilities.
Hilary Gerdes, with Disability
Services, said she still needs more
information regarding Bush’s gen
eral statements.
“Until we really know what the
plan is, we won’t know exactly
how it will impact University stu
dents,” Gerdes said.
Bush’s father signed the Ameri
cans with Disabilities Act in 1990,
which was the genesis of President
Bush’s current proposal.
“Because of that law, millions of
Americans can now compete for
jobs once denied to them, enter
buildings once closed to them
[and] travel on buses and trains
once unequipped for them,” Bush
said,
Ruth McEwen, a private rehabil
itation and general counselor, said
while she isn’t familiar with
Bush’s new plan, she has seen
progress over the years in terms of
employment initiatives for dis
abled people because of the act.
“People are starting to look more
at ability than disabilities,”
McEwen said. “We can go a lot
more places than we used to 10
years ago. It takes almost a genera
tion for changes to really come
through.”
Wally Earl, the program director
of Lane Shelter Care and an advo
cate for seniors and people with
disabilities, said he hopes Bush
will do more nationally for people
with disabilities regarding trans
portation and access to buildings.
Earl, who was once 100 percent
disabled, said Eugene is one of the
best cities he is aware of in offering
disabled people easy access to
buildings.
Earl added that he hopes Bush’s
plan will improve transportation at
universities, but he said Oregon al
ready offers senior citizen and dis
abled transportation.
He also said the Americans with
Disabilities Act still has room for
improvement. He said many
Americans think too much money
is currently being spent by the gov
ernment on disability services, and
businesses and restaurants feel
providing services for disabled
people is already costly.
Anne Brown, the executive di
rector for the Coalition in Oregon
for Parent Education, works with
parents of children with disabili
ties. She said Bush’s plan to ex
pand focus on technology and spe
cial education needs for disabled
people is significant, and more
funding needs to be available.
“In theory, he is looking at the
right issues,” Brown said. “We are
opening the door to conversation
about the right things, and that is a •
very important step.”
Man fires gun, is shot in knee
by agents outside White House
WASHINGTON — A middle
aged accountant with a history of
mental illness fired several shots
outside the White House on
Wednesday and then was shot by
the Secret Service as he waved his
handgun menacingly, authorities
said. The tense, noontime standoff
sent tourists running for cover.
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The midday drama unfolded
just outside the fence at the edge of
the South Lawn, 200 yards from
the building where President Bush
was inside exercising.
The man, wounded in the knee
and hospitalized under guard, was
identified by law enforcement
sources as Robert W. Pickett, 47,
from Evansville, Ind. He was fir^d
by the Internal Revenue Service in
the mid 1980s, and neighbors said
he kept to himself, resented the
IRS and was obsessed with West
Point, where he dropped out after
a semester in 1972. Pickett has ac
knowledged in court records that
he suffers from mental illness and
has tried to commit suicide.
Bush, working out in the White
House residence, was alerted by
Secret Service agents “but under
stood that he was not in any dan
ger,” spokesman Ari Fleischer
said. First lady Laura Bush was in
Texas. Vice President Dick Cheney
was working in his White House
office.
The shooting was the latest in a
string of security scares that have
brought tighter protection for U.S.
presidents. In 1995, then-President
Clinton ordered Pennsylvania Av
enue closed in front of the White
House following the Oklahoma
City bombing. Earlier that year, a
man was shot on the White House
lawn after scaling a fence with an
unloaded gun.
The latest incident, shortly be
fore noon on a sunny, spring-like
day, triggered a tight security clam
pdown. Tourists were evacuated
from White House rooms, and po
lice in riot gear took up positions
around the executive mansion and
beyond its gates.
Dan Halpert, a tourist from
Queens, N.Y., was on the National
Mall nearby when officers told
him to get down and clear out.
“We were all running away. It
was scary,” said Halpert, 24.
The confrontation occurred on
“E” Street, where tourists gather
along the White House fence to
snap photos of the executive man
sion and hope for a glimpse of
Bush jogging on the track encir
cling the South Lawn. There is an
unobstructed view from the fence
to the mansion.
Secret Service officers on rou
tine patrol in a car “heard shots
fired and proceeded to surround a
subject who was wielding a
weapon, a gun,” White House
press secretary Ari Fleischer said.
A 10-minute standoff ensued in
which witnesses said they heard
officers try to persuade the man to
put the gun down.
The Associated Press