A wheelchair user herself, she helped draft a landmark law and held government posts championing people with disabilities, especially those of color.

Monday’s House Republican move to gut the Office of Congressional Ethics—in secret and before the 115th Congress even officially convened—confirmed some of our worse fears. The party now believes, or at least will act as if it believes, it has a mandate to slash civil liberties and burn the socioeconomic safety net with lightening speed.

Sussex County Democratic Committee vice chairman Dan Chiariello participated in the 2016 annual Labor Day March for disabled citizens in East Rutherford, New Jersey.

On Monday, July 25, Sussex County Democratic Committee vice chairman Dan Chiariello attended the Disability Caucus meeting at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia.

SCDC Vice Chair Dan Chiariello and former NJ Assembly LD24 candidate Jacky Stapel plan to join elected officials and parents and families of people with disabilities, to march in the “Fourth Annual Labor Day Walk for Citizens with Disabilities.”

Democratic Committee Vice Chairman Dan Chiariello represented Sussex County at the newly formed New Jersey State Democratic Committee Caucus for Disabled Citizens.