Please join me in congratulating Marcie Roth on her appointment to the brand-new post of senior advisor, disability issues, at the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Roth’s job will be to try and ensure that the next time something like Katrina hits, more people with disabilities will survive.

Given Roth’s post-Katrina work while she was directing the National Spinal Cord Injury Association, this appointment makes a lot of sense. Still, given Roth’s experience working with the National Council on Independent Living, TASH, and many other major disability rights organizations, I hoped she’d be given a broader policy role, to kind of pull together that nonexistent disability policy agenda I keep harping about.

With Henry Claypool, Kathy Martinez and now Marcie Roth on board, Obama now has the nucleus of a great disability policy “dream team,” if he can get someone to pull it together, put it to work, and clue the rest of us in on what the game plan is. Sure, perhaps great things are happening behind the scenes. But what we need is transparency, to know what’s being decided for us and about us, without us knowing about it. Or, as the old disability chant goes: Nothing about us without us.

President Obama My name Is Jim Mehlenbacher I have been a parapelegic for two years now I currently have a motorized wheel chair It has come to my attention there is a chair that will stand me up and move me around I can't imagine the feeling of getting a glass from the cupboard without asking. But these are very expensive and medicare doed not cover the standing portion "ITS A LUXURY Anything you can do to help will be appreciated Sincerely JIM

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