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The Denver Post
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Conrad Swanson

'Humiliating': Denver City Council candidate had to crawl on debate stage due to lack of wheelchair access

DENVER — Denver City Councilman Chris Hinds couldn’t maneuver his wheelchair onto the stage at the Cleo Parker Robinson Dance school Monday afternoon. The venue didn’t have a ramp for him.

But if Hinds didn’t participate in the debate for the city’s District 10 council seat, he said he’d have to forfeit about $125,000 in campaign financing from Denver’s Fair Elections Fund.

“It was a choice between my campaign’s viability or my dignity,” Hinds told The Denver Post.

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