An Inclusive Litany

2/24/97

The Washington Post, October 25, 1996:
Name the presidential candidate whose former organization has an office in a building that is not accessible to the disabled.... Green Party candidate Ralph Nader. Nader has left Public Citizen, the organization he founded, but it maintains the office on the third floor of a small building on [Capitol] Hill that has no elevator.

A source said the organization years ago looked into installing an elevator but found it would be "prohibitively expensive."

[Ed.: Public Citizen itself later faced charges by the Federal Election Commission that their nonprofit funds, often allocated for the cause of campaign finance reform, were improperly funneled into a 1992 partisan political campaign to oust Georgia Rep. Newt Gingrich.]