Hi John,

 

The Freethought Equality Fund has endorsed four great Nevada candidates who are in competitive primaries on June 9. Geoffrey VanderPal is running for a the seat of a retiring Democratic incumbent, and Liz Becker, Derek Morgan, and Jennie Sherwood are running for seats currently held by Republicans. As a federal political action committee, the Freethought Equality Fund cannot directly support these candidates, so we rely on our members, like you, to donate to our state and local endorsed candidates. Short bios of these endorsed candidates are below, as are links to support their campaigns. Please be as generous as you can.

 

 

You can learn more about Liz Becker's campaign here and make a donation to her campaign here.

 

You can learn more about Derek Morgan's campaign here and make a donation to his campaign here.

 

You can learn more about Jennie Sherwood's campaign here and make a donation to her campaign here.

 

You can learn more about Geoffrey VanderPal's campaign here and make a donation to his campaign here.

 

Liz Becker is running for the Nevada State Senate in District 18. An environmental scientist, Becker has had a career in teaching and public service, including working for the Southern Nevada Water Authority. Her policy goals include providing access to quality and affordable healthcare, creating affordable housing and ending homelessness, protecting public lands and promoting conservation, ending human trafficking, preventing gun violence, protecting reproductive rights, and fully funding public education. She says, “I’m a concerned parent, former teacher, and volunteer in our community. I’m passionate about making our neighborhoods safer, improving our schools, and leaving the planet in good shape for my children, you, and yours.” Becker is a secular humanist.

 

Derek Morgan is running for the Nevada State Assembly in District 40. In his professional career as a software engineer, he has worked in both the private and public sectors including state government. Morgan’s family sparked his interest and passion in community involvement, but also fueled his frustration that many easily fixable problems exist simply because of greed and corruption. Morgan’s legislative priorities include providing Medicare for All, expanding pre-K and paying our teachers a living wage, making public colleges and universities tuition free and eliminating student loan debt, closing private prisons and focusing on rehabilitation not incarceration, enacting a green new deal to address climate change, and protecting reproductive rights. Morgan is secular.

 

Jennie Sherwood is running for the Nevada State Assembly in District 2. She is an International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW #357) Journeywoman Electrician, who has proudly been lighting Las Vegas for the past 12-years. Sherwood has also led and represented her unit through three successful contract negotiations. She says, “I’ve never been a politician, I’ve always been someone who puts in a hard day’s work and knows what it’s like to live paycheck to paycheck. But this is the type of representation that is too often lacking among our elected officials.” Her policy priorities include improving public education by teaching critical thinking and analysis rather than the current teach to the standardized test mentality, making healthcare a right and committing more mental health professionals and resources to fighting addiction, making Nevada a national leader in developing renewable energy to help address climate change, establishing transitional housing to help the homeless, and rebuilding the economy with investments in job training, small business loans, and apprenticeship programs. Sherwood is not religious.

  

Geoffrey VanderPal is running for the Nevada State Assembly in District 16. With doctorates in global leadership and business administration and finance, he has built a successful career in financial planning, investment management, and teaching. VanderPal says, “My knowledge and experience will translate well into helping manage Nevada’s multi-billion-dollar state budget.” He supports affordable healthcare, good paying jobs, reproductive rights, well funded and effective public education, environmental protections, animal rights, equality and equity for underserved populations, and an expanding and diversifying economy. He says, “I plan to use my love for animals, passion for building community, and financial expertise to positively impact Nevada and promote a healthy, thriving community.” VanderPal is spiritual but not religious.

 

You can see all our 2020 endorsed candidates here.

 

 

Sincerely,

Ron Millar

PAC Coordinator

 

This message is for the sole use of members of the Center for Freethought Equality. The mission of the Freethought Equality Fund (FEF) is to achieve equality for the nontheist community by increasing the number of open humanists and atheists, and allies, in public office at all levels of government. The FEF is affiliated with the Center for Freethought Equality, which is the advocacy and political arm of the American Humanist Association. Donations to the Center for Freethought Equality, Freethought Equality Fund and our endorsed candidates are voluntary and are not tax deductible.