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Hi  John,
 
Just 56 days until the general election! The Freethought Equality Fund, the political action committee of the Center for Freethought Equality, has five excellent candidates in Georgia and Arkansas running in the general election. Dana Barrett, an ally, and nontheists Natalie Bucsko, Connie Di Cicco, June Anteski, Lisa Hassell are running to replace Republican incumbents. Please support these candidates -- donation links are below as are their bios. You can see all our 2020 endorsed candidates here[[link removed]]. 
 
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You can learn more about Dana Barrett's campaign here[[link removed]] and make a donation to her campaign here.[[link removed]]
 
You can learn more about Natalie Bucsko's campaign here[[link removed]] and make a donation to her campaign here.[[link removed]]
 
You can learn more about Connie Di Cicco's campaign here[[link removed]] and make a donation to her campaign here.[[link removed]]
 
You can learn more about June Anteski's campaign here[[link removed]] and make a donation to her campaign here.[[link removed]]
 
You can learn more about Lisa Hassell's campaign here[[link removed]] and make a donation to her campaign here.[[link removed]]
 
 
Dana Barrett[[link removed]] is running for Congress in the Georgia 11th Congressional District. She was unopposed in the Democratic primary on June 9. As a talk radio host for the last five years, she “realized that sharing my views with listeners who already agree with me, might make us all feel good, but it wasn’t going to change the system.” This change will start with removing the incumbent in her district. She is running against Republican Barry Loudermilk who claimed during the impeachment vote that Jesus was “afforded more rights” than Trump. Her policy goals include enforcing equal pay for equal work, making healthcare and prescription drugs affordable, enacting common sense gun control, protecting a woman’s right to choose, and ensuring equal rights for the LGBTQ community. Barrett identifies as culturally Jewish and an ally of the atheist and humanist community.
 
Natalie Bucsko[[link removed]] is running for the Georgia State House in District 24. The first Democrat to run for this seat in 20 years, Natalie would also be the first openly queer Representative from Forsyth County. The daughter, granddaughter, and great-granddaughter of veterans, Bucsko is well-acquainted with public service. Her four daughters have increased her commitment to advocate for women’s voices and issues, and for building a better, more progressive future for Georgia. As a member of the State House, Bucsko will fight to better fund Georgia’s public education system, address systemic bias to promote diversity and equality, promote church-state separation and remove the remnants of “blue laws,” reign in corporations to make real results in combating climate change, expand Medicaid to increase access to medical care, expand reproductive healthcare, and reverse efforts to restrict voting rights. Bucsko is a nontheist Pagan.
 
Connie Di Cicco[[link removed]] is running for the Georgia State House in District 44. She was unopposed in the Democratic primary on June 9. She was the Chief of Staff for Georgia State Representative Mary Frances Williams who in 2018 defeated a three-term Republican incumbent. Di Cicco is seeking to follow Williams’ lead and replace a Republican incumbent who has been in the legislature for 25 years. As Di Cicco says, “It’s time for change. This campaign is about moving Georgia out of the dark ages and being progressive: pro-choice, pro-equality, pro-gay marriage. This is about leaving things better than we found them – accessible and affordable healthcare, protecting our environment, and providing quality education to all our students.” Raised Catholic, Di Cicco says, “I’m not religious, but I still have faith and a strong system of beliefs. I believe in the good of humanity, in science, and in the power of nature.”
 
June Anteski[[link removed]] is running for the Arkansas State House in District 74. She is a graduate of Purdue University Northwest and University of Arkansas School of Law. For the past 12 years, she has worked as an attorney to help identify and solve working people’s legal problems to make their lives better. Anteski will make sure her district “is not left behind and instead leads the way forward.” Her platform focuses on: jobs, childcare, education (G.E.D. and E.S.L.), and the environment (establishing tree and wildflower planting projects and encouraging the growth of green energy solutions throughout the state with wind and solar energy fields). Anteski was raised Lutheran. She is spiritual but not religious.
 
Lisa Hassell[[link removed]] is running for the Arkansas State House in District 68. As a military widow, mother, grandmother, and Registered Nurse for 35 years, Hassell knows what it takes to care for a family and community, and the current incumbent is not getting the job done. Hassell will get things done. When rural hospitals are closing across the country, she was part of a team that engaged the community and obtained financial support to build a new hospital in her district. Her policy goals include strengthening Medicare and Medicaid, establishing access to affordable rural broadband, supporting renewable energy and conservation, and meeting the needs of our veterans and military families. Hassell is an agnostic.
 
You can see all our 2020 endorsed candidates here[[link removed]]. 
 
Thank you for your membership and support. 
 
Sincerely,

Ron Millar
PAC Coordinator
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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[[link removed]], Freethought Equality Fund[[link removed]] and our endorsed candidates are voluntary and are not tax deductible. 
 

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