Hi John,

 

The Freethought Equality Fund has endorsed three outstanding New York and Kentucky candidates who are in competitive elections on June 23. Nancy Goroff and Katie Brophy are in competitive Democratic primaries, and Nate McMurray is in a special election to fill a vacant Congressional seat. 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 Nancy Goroff's campaign here and make a donation to her campaign here.

 

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

 

 

Katie Brophy is running for the Kentucky State Senate in District 37. She is a native Kentuckian and earned her undergraduate and law degrees at the University of Kentucky. Brophy has been a small business owner and attorney for over forty years. She considers herself an advocate and activist and her policy goals reflect this fighter mentality: protecting the welfare of animals, increasing access to affordable healthcare, legalizing marijuana and expanding the use of hemp products, protecting women’s reproductive rights, addressing climate change and protecting the environment, enacting common sense gun control, protecting union rights and repealing Kentucky’s “right-to-work” law, increasing the minimum wage, and expanding and protecting voting rights. Brophy represents a number of non-profits and is an active family law practitioner. She is a former board member of the national Animal Legal Defense Fund (ALDF) and Bridgehaven Mental Health Services in Louisville, KY. Brophy is not religious and is a proponent of secularism.

 

Nancy Goroff is running for Congress in the New York 1st Congressional District. For the past twenty-two years, Goroff has taught at Stony Brook University and for the past two and a half years she has served as chair of the Chemistry Department. She will bring her academic training and experience to Congress to “trust the facts, find solutions, and work with everyone with good ideas.” Her policy priorities include: taking action to address the climate crisis, expanding access to quality affordable health care, defending reproductive rights, amending the Civil Rights Act to protect the rights of the LGBTQ community, developing innovate and good paying jobs in her district, and passing common sense gun legislation to end gun violence. Goroff identifies as a secular Jew.

 

Nate McMurray is running for Congress in New York’s 27th Congressional District. As a Fulbright Scholar, his teaching and legal career has taken him around the world; however, he chose to return to Western New York to raise his children. McMurray loved exploring the beauty of the rivers, lakes, hills, and valleys of the region and is now sharing that with his family. He believes in the potential of Western New York. McMurray says, “We have amazing people, wonderful natural resources, and with the right leadership and some hard work, there is no limit to what we can do!” His policy priorities include: addressing climate change with job-producing green technology, raising the minimum wage to a living wage, passing Medicare for All, supporting a woman’s right to choose, and legalizing cannabis. McMurray serves as the Town Supervisor in Grand Island, NY and in 2018 came within 1,100 votes of defeating the indicted Congressman, Chris Collins, in New York’s reddest district. He is going to “fight like hell” in this now open seat contest. McMurray is a Christian and an ally of the atheist and humanist community.

 

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.