Re: FYI

By the way, I guess I'll need a title. Is communications director taken?

On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 2:20 PM, Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com> wrote:

Ha, ha. See, now we're in business. This is raw material. I'll get
back to you in a bit.

On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 2:16 PM,  <EllJhns8@aol.com> wrote:






Ellen



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From: Woodyaclu@aol.com
To: secular_coalition@yahoogroups.com, heads@maaf.info
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 14:11:27 EDT
Subject: Fwd: "GODLESS AMERICANS PAC?"


From: Hogan Gidley [mailto:HoganG@elizabethdole.org]
Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2008 12:15 PM
To: Hogan Gidley
Subject: PRESS RELEASE - "GODLESS AMERICANS PAC?"

elizabeth_dole_logo_on_blue lg
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
                                                      Contact:  Hogan Gidley
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
                                                      (704) 651-7096
"GODLESS AMERICANS PAC?"
Hagan Heads to Boston for Fundraiser in the Home of Leading Anti-Religion
Activists

Salisbury, N.C.  On September 15th, Kay Hagan is heading to
Boston, Massachusetts to attend a fundraiser for her Senate campaign.  What
may surprise mainstream North Carolinians is that the fundraiser will be in
the home of leading anti-religion activists Wendy Kaminer and her lawyer
husband Woody Kaplan -- who is on the advisory board of the "Godless
Americans Political Action Committee."

Kaminer is the author of Sleeping with Extra-Terrestrials, in which one
reviewer said Kaminer is ". . . trying to save us from 'the perils of
piety'-the pestilence of organized religion and its encroachment on public
life. Should we be surprised that Katha Pollitt, atheist-in-chief at The
Nation and author of a book called Reasonable Creatures, has given Kaminer's
book a gushing blurb?" (Norah Vincent, Op-Ed, "Unbelievable," National
Review, 11/22/99)."

Kaminer is also an advisory board member (Woody is the chairman) of The
Secular Coalition for America which is "the national lobby for atheists,
humanists, freethinkers and other nontheistic Americans with the unique
mission of protecting their civil rights." (Secular Coalition For America,
Press Release, 1/16/08)

Kaminer's husband, Woody Kaplan, is also an advisor to the Godless Americans
Political Action Committee which sees itself as a counter-force to religious
groups in public policy debates.

"Kay Hagan is trying to run a campaign in North Carolina that casts her as a
moderate but the money that's paying for it is coming from the left-wing
fringe of political thought," said Dole Campaign Communications Director Dan
McLagan.  "You can tell a lot about a person by their friends and these are
friends most North Carolinians would not be comfortable having over for
dinner."

Hagan's campaign is being largely funded by labor unions intent on ending
North Carolina's status as a right to work state, liberal trial lawyers and
ultra left wing groups like MoveOn.org which is a deeply anti-military
organization.  Now Hagan has added anti-religion activists from Boston
Massachusetts to the list.

"Kay Hagan does not represent the values of this state; she is a Trojan
Horse for a long list of wacky left-wing outside groups bent on policies
that would horrify most North Carolinians if they knew about it," McLagan
said.  "This latest revelation of support from anti-religion activists will
not sit well with the 90% of state residents who identify with a specific
religious faith."

# # #

Hogan Gidley
Communications Director
hogan@elizabethdole.org

Elizabeth Dole Committee
P. O. Box 2629
Salisbury, NC 28145
ph:  704-633-0014
fx:   704-636-4823




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