Ivan,
I'm mailing this letter tomorrow.  Hope it helps in some way.

GReg
47/35/35
-----Original Message-----
From: Ivan M Suzman <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tuesday, November 02, 1999 3:47 PM
Subject: your Signatures needed for MHRC/ PETITION invalid??


>^^^^^^  WARM GREETINGS  FROM  ^^^^^^^^^^^^  :-)
> Ivan Suzman        49/39/36       [log in to unmask]   :-)
> Portland, Maine    land of lighthouses        66 June-like showery  deg.
>F   :-)
>********************************************************************
>  Hello PIEN, and Casco Bay Weekly Editor David Tyler,
>
>    It's raining very heavily, and the sky is low and
>dark, just as it is before a June thunderstorm.
>
>       Connie Tate located and published on PIEN
>the  e-mail address ([log in to unmask]),
> for Barbara Lelli, the Investigator who is collecting the facts
>on  my TWO discrimination complaints against the City of
>Portland lawyers.  Her Report, due November 15, at the Maine Human
> Rights Commission Office in Augusta, Maine, is probably
>CRITICAL to my being saved from losing possession
>of my house, due December 16..
>
>   IF Ms. Lelli's Report finds that I am, like so many PWP's, a
>victim of uncaring government bureaucrats who are discriminating
>against me , their attempted DECEMBER 16 foreclosure , including
>taking POSSESSION of my PD-adapted house,  is  far less
>likely.
>
>  Needless to say, I am in constant mental anguish
>right now.  Winter is expected VERY soon here.
>
>   As far as I can tell, several PIEN members, like
>Ken Becker and Paul Fahr, have e-mailed
>messages to Ms. Lelli. I do not know if SIGNED hard
>copies were also sent by surface or air mail.
>
>This morning I telephoned the MHRC, and discovered
>that SIGNED hard copies of your e-mail carry much more
>weight than unsigned, unprinted e-mail messages.
>
>
>Even the January, 1999 PETITION might have been unacceptable,
>because it has NO actual signatures on it!!   I did hand-write in
>my horrible scrawl a note to Ms. Lelli ON THE ACTUAL PETITION
>itself, and that act MIGHT validate it  as  bona fide.  After all,
>the City could argue that I manufactured a "petition" out of the
>Blue (Hilary Blue , I suppose -lolo).
>
> Apparently, e-mail , even from PWP's, is NOT always
> acceptable as supportive evidence.
>
>Here is a SURFACE MAIL address for SIGNED hard copies
>of e-mail letters for Ms. Lelli, and 2 phone numbers.
>
>Ms. Barbara Lelli,
>Investigator, Maine Human Rights Commission
>State House Station 51
>Augusta Maine, 04333--0051
>
>tel (207) 624-6050 / 624-6055
>
>  I am sure that our signatures, voices and dyskinesias
>may all cause PWP's to be treated wrongly at times.  Also, our
>voices can slur and are often very soft, so the act of  talking to
>modern "voice-mail" or "audix" answering systems causes PWP's.to be
>treated
>differently at times.
>
>PWP's also have substantial variations in behavior and motion  that may
>cause us to be labelled or mistreated.  I feel that this has been
>happening to me for several YEARS,, whenever I tried to get fair
>treatment  from city officials.
>
> They probably thought I am on drugs, a drunk or a nuisance.
>
>What I don't get is: how can they brush aside my very well-
>known volunteer work for other PWP's and their families???
>
>Ivan Suzman  :-)
>