As a couple of you know, I've just been brought on as a pro bono
advisor to
the Wynne LeGrow campaign (VA-04), for which I'm now writing
speeches, press releases, and op-eds, as well as explaining such things
as net neutrality to LeGrow, who has also been extraordinarily
receptive to the sort of methods that Project PM is working to
popularize; as seen here, I've had him agree to answer some questions
among the 250 or so that have been asked by members of reddit so far
this afternoon. I've also promised, with his permission, that should he
take office, LeGrow's office would create a subreddit wherein anyone
could submit policy information or even proposals for new legislation,
which would make him the first congressman to rely on this sort of
crowd-sourced advisory method. At any rate, LeGrow announced early in
the campaign that he's an atheist; his opponent, Randy Forbes, is
founder of the Congressional Prayer Caucus Foundation and once
introduced legislation by which Congress would have affirmed that "The
Holy Bible is God's Word," which is, uh, yeah. LeGrow's almost
certainly going to lose - he was polling at 30% when I joined up - but
this is a great opportunity to not only make arguments about
secularism, but also to showcase such things as the reddit promise,
which
was well-received. We've also managed to recruit several people
today, three of whom have strong backgrounds in IT.
Anyway, the Skeptical Inquirer announcement should go up soon,
and in the meantime we've recruited several writers to participate. If
any of you would be interested in advising a freelancer yourself, or if
you have a colleague who might, let me know.