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Hi  John,
 
The Freethought Equality Fund, the political action committee of the Center for Freethought Equality, has 15 great endorsed candidates[[link removed]] in Arizonia on the general election ballot. This is the second of four messages I will be sending you this week to introduce them all to you.
 
Jeanne Casteen, Douglas Ervin, and Eric Kurland are all members of the atheist and humanist community and are challenging Republican incumbents. Help our candidates turn Arizona from a red to blue state by supporting their campaigns -- their websites and donation links are below as are their bios. You can see all our 2020 endorsed candidates here[[link removed]]. 
 
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Jeanne Casteen - campaign website[[link removed]] - donation page[[link removed]] Douglas Ervin - campaign website[[link removed]] - donation page[[link removed]] Eric Kurland - campaign website[[link removed]] - donation page[[link removed]]
 
Jeanne Casteen[[link removed]] is running for Maricopa County (AZ) Superintendent of Public Instruction. She has been a teacher for over 10 years and a member of the Creighton (AZ) School Board since 2012. Casteen currently serves as the school board president. With this background she is eager to take the next step to ensure that students, parents, and the community are best-served by the education system in Maricopa County. Casteen says, “This means encompassing the whole child in education, equity for students across zip codes, and respect and dignity for the adults making their education possible.” Casteen is an atheist.
 
Douglas Ervin[[link removed]] is running for the Arizona State Senate in District 20. Ervin has had a successful professional career in accounting and an extensive life-time of volunteering and activism with environmental, community, and educational organizations, including as a tutor for second graders. Although holding public office was not in his career plans, he realized that in these critical times he had to step up to “bring my financial background, problem-solving skills, business experience, and focused determination to the State Senate to help save Arizona’s future.” Ervin is “working to restore fiscal responsibility to our state so that all children receive a great education, everyone has access to quality affordable healthcare, and we make prudent infrastructure investments – all of which will help grow our economy and create jobs.” His other priorities include protecting individual freedoms, putting families first, supporting small businesses, encouraging innovation, and keeping communities safe. Ervin will work across the aisle to enact common sense solutions that will benefit all Arizonans. Ervin identifies with Humanistic Judaism.
 
Eric Kurland[[link removed]] is running for the Arizona State House in District 23. Having just retired as a teacher with over 20 years of experience, Kurland understands firsthand the damage done to Arizona public schools by the legislature and is fighting for a better way forward. He believes that it is “time for a teacher” in the legislature because improving education is essential to ensuring a more equitable, prosperous, and progressive Arizona. His other policy priorities include protecting voting rights, providing more local control to cities and towns, ending the for-profit prison system, and making Arizona a leader in clean, renewable energy. Kurland is not religious.
 
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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