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Please help us stop the insult!

 

IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR ALL NEW JERSEYANS!

 

During this year’s election, you have the opportunity to vote on an important ballot question that, if passed, will end a 163 year old insult

 

Right now, the New Jersey Constitution refers to people with disabilities as “idiots” and “insane.”  Public Question 4 on the ballot asks if we are willing to remove this offensive language and replace it with more appropriate terminology. 

 

People with disabilities find this language derogatory and downright hurtful! 

 

This change is long overdue!

 

REMEMBER:

 

Voting YES on Public Question 4 won’t cost New Jersey taxpayers any money! 

 

Voting YES on Public Question 4 won’t take more than 2 seconds of your time!

 

Voting YES on Public Question 4 will not change the right to vote – it will just change this offensive language!

 

Voting YES on Public Question 4 is THE RIGHT THING TO DO!

 

Please join us in this “TELL A FRIEND” campaign to reach as many New Jersey voters as we can over the next few weeks!   

 

Help us End The Insult!

 

What YOU can do to help:

 

  1. Copy and paste this information into an email that you send to at least 10 other New Jersey voters.   
  2. Bring copies of the attached flyers to your local school, supermarket, library, book club meetings, family gatherings, and ANYWHERE ELSE YOU CAN THINK OF between NOW and November 6th.
  3. Go to the polls on November 6th and VOTE YES on Public Question 4!
  4. Encourage everyone you know to VOTE YES on Public Question 4!

Lynn Lott

Assistant Executive Director

The Arc of Union County

52 Fadem Road

Springfield, NJ 07081

Phone:  973-315-0015

I wish I could vote in NJ or atleast knew someone living in NJI know lots of people in NJ--I'll get the word out.I live in new jersey and yes this is so wrong.. I will be voting and so are all my friends.. 
 
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