Hi John,
On Thursday join Congressional candidate Nancy Goroff (NY-1), Congressman Jamie Raskin (MD-8 and Co-Chair of the Congressional Freethought Caucus) and Harvard Humanist Chaplain Greg Epstein in a Zoom meet-and-greet to help Nancy Goroff become the first newly elected nontheist to Congress. This event will be on Thursday, September 10 from 6-7pm eastern.
The Freethought Equality Fund endorsed Nancy Goroff and helped her win a very tight primary race. On primary election night, June 23, Goroff was behind by 164 votes but when the final absentee ballot was counted she won by 630 votes! Now we want to redouble our efforts and help her win the general election.
The general election could be just as close as the primary. Goroff is taking on Republican incumbent Lee Zeldin who was a member of Trump's impeachment defense team and who narrowly won re-election in 2018 with just 51.5% of the vote. A s hort bio of Dr. Goroff is below, as is a link to support her campaign -- please be as generous as you can (all donations made through this link will be identified as coming from the atheist and humanist community).
In addition, Goroff's campaign has been added to the DCCC Red to Blue list providing more resources to the campaign, and the Cook Political Report has upgraded the district in it's outlook to flip this district!
Goroff's slender primary victory is a perfect example of how every vote counts and the importance of the atheist and humanist community being active in the electoral arena.
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.
You can see all our 2020 endorsed candidates here.
Thank you for your membership and support!
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.
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