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.