Cenk Uygur
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Local News Anchor CRUSHES Sue-Happy Organization
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August 7, 2016
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7:47Now PlayingA local Phoenix news station recently aired a piece about an organization who loves suing companies for minor and largely frivolous handicap accessibility infractions. It turns out they don’t practice what they preach. Cenk Uygur, Ana Kasparian, and Kenny Hamilton, hosts of The Young Turks, break it down. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.
"...aid.org — who calls themselves “Civil Rights Champions” on behalf of people with disabilities. Biscobing and his team found that the group has sued hundreds of businesses in Arizona alone this year on the small minutiae of parking lot accessibility: the proper heights of handicap parking signs, measurements that legally must be met, etc. They find businesses negligent of the itty-bitty rules and they sue — for huge sums of money…
But where things get hilarious and dark in the story is when Biscobing brilliantly visits the AID center for himself… only to find a litany of the same violations they sue everyone else for. “There we also found faded paint, and a ramp blocking overrunning — and blocking — the access door,” says Biscobing in the voiceover package.
After confronting two representatives of the foundation, who attempt to argue that is it “not a building of public accommodation” the mood suddenly switches. “AID must be worried about us checking,” Biscobing continues, as footage reveals that they are now being hysterically followed by an AID employer as they poke around the parking spots, filming them with her phone…”*
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Hosts: Cenk Uygur, Ana Kasparian, Kenny Hamilton
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