Washington, DC Aspie Runs on the Green Ticket

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Has anyone else heard about this? If so, can you add some more information and/or substantiate this? I got an email through GRASP saying that one of our members, Maude Louise Hills, is running for Delegate to the US House on the Green Party ticket in DC, which piqued my interest.

I did a quick Google search and found an excerpt of her talking about her platform at a press conference. Apparently, she has an interest in advocating for the autism community and adults in particular. It sounds like she wants to push for a waiver program similar to what we are starting in PA.

It's too bad she probably doesn't have a chance, since she's running for the Green Party. I don't know much about the issue of DC gaining statehood, but autistic rights and fair housing happen to be my two pet social issues, so I think this sounds pretty cool.


Statement from Maude Louise Hills, DC Statehood Green candidate for Delegate to the US House

My name is Maude Hills, most people are familiar with my name as Louise Thundercloud, so Louise it is. My platform will address the two serious ills in the District of Columbia, each will only be addressed being granted unequivocal statehood.

One is the fact that for years the autistic population in DC has had to put up with one size fits all services, no behavioral interventions, no autism waiver that would enable parents to access needed services of the very expensive supports that autistic children & adults will require for their entire lives.

This city has a bad record for squeezing the vulnerable autistic spectrum clients into inappropriate services. Now we are being faced with returning out of state placements to the district to save money when the clients are retuning to the same non-existent services, this treadmill has to stop.

As your DC Statehood Green Party Candidate for Delegate to the House of Representatives, I will fight to remedy this sad situation that exists in this city by forcing cross training with success proven agencies in other states. 2) By fighting the practice of changing diagnosis to fit the districts inability to create services for clients with accurate diagnosis. 3) By forcing an autism waver to be routinely offered by DC.

The second issue is truly affordable housing, not housing that targets moderate to high income earners, but housing that serves the very low income and homeless.

I will do this by first working to limit the mayor's ability to grant contracts to developers who service only moderate to higher income populations. I will fight to limit councils ability to make back door deals with developers of condos, townhouses or any dwellings which do not serve very low income or homeless people who need housing.

How will I work for this? By fighting for full statehood, by granting DC statehood, the mayor and council will have to follow the law of the land. I will work for legislation that will force the mayor and council to have to meet in front of no less than five community town hall meetings. To accurately address the concerns and desire of the entire community when it comes to issues of disposing public property which could be used for affordable housing.

In closing, I am willing to work with advocates for the autistic spectrum community, as well as homeless and housing advocates to make sure these needed changes happen. And remember DC will be a much better place for all of us if we HAVE STATEHOOD NOW! Thank you

Here is her webpage: http://www.statehood4dc.com/thundercloud/home .

Thanks, Woodpeace.

where does it say she is an aspie? when i do a google search it takes me to this post.

Thats cool, I hope she wins, she must have a few relatives around Calgary because the Siksika Blackfoot First Nations is near by.

Read this for a heads up on the group that calls itself the 'Cherokee-Blackfoot Cultural Circle'. --It's a Native American Cultural Guardianship forum.

I can *really* see the native american in her. Something about her face reminds me a bit of my great aunts, who are Native american. She's gorgeous.

BLACK POWAH



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I believe it's a good thing that that isn't happening..

EDIT 2: At least she had her genealogy done, Black America arguably needs that done to find their REAL last names, cultures, etc. Remember Malcolm X

EDIT 3: Sorry for the derailment....

It's okay, I derailed it first. She might not have had her geneology done, It might have just been passed down in her family.


I'm still confused about where it says she's an aspie!

It did in the email newsletter from GRASP that I mentioned in my original post.

It just basically said that she was a GRASP member, on the spectrum and running for this position. (So, she may even have another form of autism, rather than Asperger's, specifically).

I was just curious if anyone knew anything else about her. Sorry if that wasn't too clear.

There's a black geneticist who does genetic testing so you can know what tribe in West Africa you came from. A real genealogy would probably be impossible, since blacks were stripped of their identities once they arrived in the Americas-an essential part of enslavement. But this guy's genetic test is the next best thing. One caution: ancestry testing is NOT cheap! I looked into it for determining whether I have Israelite (Jewish) in me, and the INITIAL test was around $1000! I can't afford that!

Oh, and "last names" as Europeans know them didn't really exist in Africa until whites introduced the concept. Indeed, surnames in Europe itself only came into being around the 13th or 14th centuries. Before that, you're lucky if you can get a clan history. I read that Donald Trump was only able to trace his ancestry to the 14th century and a German called "Drumpf" because last names simply weren't used. Even now, in Afghanistan and Indonesia most people only use a given name.

Some Southeast Asian immigrants will give the father's surname to boys and the mother's to girls. A lot of white New Leftists, who reject masculine prerogative in names, will do this as well. Some hippies gave their kids both names, in a hyphenated fashion. I went to school with a brother and sister who were so named. But that situation soon proved unworkable once those kids had kids, so plan B was initiated.

If you can get a tribal connection, and have the money for testing, go for it. But that's probably the best you can do, unless you want to change your name to a name used by your tribe. Some blacks gave themselves Swahili names in the 70s.