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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 :-) >