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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 profits, then for my care
and my

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As a result, I've seen how screwed
up the 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

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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

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without people our city, our state,
our 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 we

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

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everyone? How can we say that we
are representing every single

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person in this district with one
in four voters lives with a

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disability and yet has been left
behind over 550 - 4000

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homeless people, 30 percent Age
of 60 - five and 40 percent

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live with disabilities and so I
hope to give them all

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Rubio here.