I just got a note in my Inbox regarding an organizing meeting for the DFL Disability Caucus. I attended similar meetings during the 2004 election cycle and still have mixed feelings about the experience. The people who took it upon themselves to chair the group were not well-known in the disability community and were not entirely familiar with the rules of disability etiquette. One of the co-chairs was shockingly rude to a volunteer with a developmental disability during a meeting; it was missteps like this that created a lot of tension within the group and ultimately made me reluctant to get involved in future campaign efforts. <\/p>\n
But I’ll probably go to the meeting, despite any misgivings I might have. I do see that the organizers are making allowances for people to teleconference into the meeting, which already shows me that they at least have a clue. <\/p>\n
If you’re interested in attending the meeting, here are the details: <\/p>\n
The Minnesota DFL Disability Caucus invites you to attend an organizing (The information desk can direct you to the correct room.)<\/b><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I just got a note in my Inbox regarding an organizing meeting for the DFL Disability Caucus. I attended similar meetings during the 2004 election cycle and still have mixed feelings about the experience. The people who took it upon themselves to chair the group were not well-known in the disability community and were not […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-l1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nmeeting on <\/b>Wednesday, August 16th<\/sup> from 5:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.
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\nconference room<\/b><\/p>\n
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