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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 third of four messages I have, and will, be sending you this week to introduce them all to you.
 
Delina DiSanto, Sharon Girard, Joanna Mendoza, and Judy Schweibert are challenging Republican incumbents to help make Arizona and America safer, saner, and stronger. 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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Delina DiSanto - campaign website[[link removed]] - donation page[[link removed]] Sharon Girard - campaign website[[link removed]] - donation page[[link removed]] JoAnna Mendoza - campaign website[[link removed]] - donation page[[link removed]] Judy Schwiebert - campaign website[[link removed]] - donation page[[link removed]]
Delina DiSanto[[link removed]] is running for Congress in the Arizona 4th Congressional District. She won the Democratic primary on August 4 with 74% of the vote. As a registered nurse, DiSanto cares deeply about healthcare. She says, “Everyone has the right to affordable care – it is our moral obligation as a country to provide healthcare and I view it as a human right. I support the path to Medicare for all.” Her other policy priorities include: protecting Social Security, addressing climate change, immigration reform to secure the border while protecting Dreamers and creating an understandable and less intimidating path for citizenship, respecting our veterans by creating exception healthcare and other services at the VA, cutting taxes for small businesses and making investments in our infrastructure, increasing teacher pay and benefits to improve public education, and decriminalizing marijuana. DiSanto is a recovering Catholic.
 
Sharon Girard[[link removed]] is running for the Arizona State House in District 8. A retired member of the medical profession after 30 years, Girard believes in helping others with evidence-based, common sense solutions. She says, “I believe in facts and science. I am data-driven and think pragmatically.” Her policy priorities include providing access to quality healthcare for all, addressing climate change, banning assault weapons and preventing gun violence, protecting reproductive rights and outlawing deceptive crisis pregnancy centers, and providing quality education by raising teachers pay, investing in technology and capital improvements, expanding pre-K and full-day kindergarten, supporting vocational training programs, and demanding a science-based curriculum. Girard is culturally Jewish and an agnostic.
 
JoAnna Mendoza[[link removed]] is running for election to the Arizona State Senate in District 11. Mendoza served in the military for 20 years and later worked as a congressional staffer, where she saw firsthand the struggles her community continues to face. Mendoza understands what working families need and can speak to those needs as one of the few mothers of young children in the Arizona legislature. Her vision for Arizona is a place in which your zip code doesn’t determine your success, and all people are treated with dignity and respect. To this end, Mendoza will fight to improve funding for public schools, increase access to affordable healthcare, and support our essential workers and small businesses. Mendoza fought her way out of poverty, fought to protect our Constitutional rights, and she stands ready to fight for the people of Arizona. She was raised Catholic and is now a spiritual ally of the atheist and humanist community. 
 
Judy Schwiebert[[link removed]] is running for the Arizona State House in District 20. The daughter of an educator and a 27-year veteran teacher herself, Schwiebert has seen firsthand the financial struggles Arizona’s teachers face just to get by. Schwiebert is prepared to fix Arizona’s deeply inequitable and broken educational structure and replace it with a well-funded, modern, and thriving public-school system. She is also a strong advocate for building a stronger and fairer local economy, offering everyone affordable healthcare, protecting Arizona’s abundant natural resources, and ensuring equal opportunities for every Arizonan. As a mother and grandmother and an active member of her community, Schwiebert is passionate about bringing people together and listening to new ideas to create a better and more inclusive Arizona. Schwiebert is an ally to the atheist and humanist community.
 
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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