Hi John,

 

The Freethought Equality Fund has endorsed three excellent Iowa and Indiana candidates who are in competitive primaries on June 2. Amanda Qualls and Caleb Short are seeking to oust Republican incumbents, and Brandon Dothager is running for an open seat in which the Democratic incumbent is running for Congress. 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 Caleb Short's campaign here and make a donation to his campaign here.

 

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

 

You can learn more about Amanda Qualls' campaign here and make a donation to her campaign here.

 

 

Caleb Short is running for the Iowa State House in District 25. He has a long history of activism in the atheist and humanist community with the American Atheists and the Iowa Atheists and Freethinkers. Short believes “in high quality public education, affordable healthcare for all, and creating an infrastructure that everyone can benefit from and be proud of.“ He is also passionate about promoting social justice, worker’s rights, and environmental issues. Short is an atheist and secular humanist.

 

Brandon Dothager is running for the Indiana State House in District 12. He has committed himself to the fight for justice and ending the culture of corruption in northwest Indiana politics. His campaign is working to build a movement of engaged citizens to stand up and say, “Enough is enough!.” His policy priorities including addressing climate change, protecting reproductive rights, promoting tolerance and acceptance of diversity, removing barriers to voting, making the minimum wage a living wage, creating affordable housing, providing healthcare for all, and reforming the criminal justice system to end mass incarceration. Dothager is a secular humanist.

  

Amanda Qualls is running for the Indiana State House in District 49. Qualls is an at-large member of the Goshen Community Schools Board of Education, the chair of her local cooperative food market, and the secretary of her city’s Sister City program. She served as the Human Resources Director for the Pete Buttigieg presidential campaign and the Director of Human Resources at Ballotpedia, an online encyclopedia of campaigns and politics. By challenging the entrenched Republican incumbent, Qualls is seeking to bring a new voice and perspective to the Indiana state capital. Her policy goals include ensuring that every student receives a quality public education and that teachers and all school employees are adequately compensated; addressing climate change; protecting reproductive rights and the rights of the LGBTQ community; and creating economic resiliency in her county, which is highly dependent upon manufacturing. Qualls is agnostic.

 

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.