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, got ready to pitch their best vision of District 10 — which includes Capitol Hill and Uptown and will also include downtown thanks to redistricting — to voters who were watching. But there was a problem.
"The first person that I see who works for the venue said, 'Oh, I didn't know you use a wheelchair to get around,' which is baffling to me. And then my campaign staff, they said that they talked to the organizer of the event, and their plan was just to lift me up onto the stage. Lift my wheelchair and me onto the stage. I went with my power wheelchair, which is 400 pounds, and I weigh almost 200 pounds," Hinds says.
After reaching out to the Clerk and Recorder's Office, Hinds was informed that he had to go to the debate or he would have to return the $125,000 in Fair Elections Fund money that he had gotten so far. Per Fair Elections Fund rules, candidates qualifying for the fund"The binary choice that I had was to participate in the debate and face public humiliation or lose my campaign viability," Hinds says, describing his thinking before he crawled up onto the stage.
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