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Man forced to crawl onto stage due to 'humiliating' lack of wheelchair access

A man had to drag himself onto a stage and crawl across it in front of dozens of people because of the complete lack of a wheelchair ramp.

Chris Hinds needed to get on the stage to take part in a debate or face losing about $125,000 in campaign financing.

Mr Hinds is running to join the Denver City council. Organisers of the event said they couldn't lift the wheelchair onto the stage.

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