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Champion Of Special Needs Children

Sarah Palin Has Consistent Record as Champion of Special Needs Children
by Dr. Warren Throckmorton

Last week, in a major speech on disabilities in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, delivered to several groups of medical professionals, Sarah Palin promised that she would be an advocate for special needs families as vice president. It is a theme she has sounded since her nomination speech at the Republican National Convention. Along the way, in an effort to cast her as a hypocrite, critics have launched a series of claims that Governor Palin cut programs for special needs kids. For the most part, these claims have been debunked, but the question remains, what has Palin done as governor to support her promise to be a champion for families with special needs? To find out more, I went directly to a key source: I consulted with Stephen Lesko, executive director of an Anchorage, Alaska agency, Hope Community Resources. Hope serves special needs families via foster care, respite care, mental-health care and a host of others services. Lesko's organization received a 127 percent increase in fiscal year 2009 capital funding to help refurbish existing homes and facilities for disabled clients. Asked about Governor Palin, Lesko said, "She has made significant progress in the area of disabilities in a very short period of time, the most I have seen in such a short period in my 30 years at Hope Community Resources."
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