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I was trying to save up the $10000
to enter a paramedic program

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so that I can serve our community
as a firefighter and EMT and

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paramedic, but I was hurt at work
and what should have been a

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simple six -week recovery turned
into full body nerve damage

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because my worker was or my employer
was able to put more focus

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on their outfits, then for my care
and my

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And as a result, I've seen how screwed
up workers compensation

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is I've seen how screwed up our
system is I went from earning

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50 - $5000 a year so living on 730
- $5 a month. You know we

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have left people behind. We have
left those with disabilities

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behind if I'm elected, I will be
the only disabled woman in the

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United States House

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We have not had serious change for
those with disabilities

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since 1990, - four. When the ADA
was adopted, We have left out

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people our city, our state, our
country has become inaccessible

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parts of it are still completely
inaccessible to those in

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wheelchairs, so those would live
with disabilities. How can you

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say that we are the party of everyone
when we don't Can we say

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that we are representing every single
person in this district

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with one in four voters lives with
a disability and yet has

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been left behind over 550 - 4000
homeless people, 30 percent

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are over the age of 60 - five and
40 percent live with

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disabilities and so I hope to give
them

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it's Carmen Rubio here.