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Hi  John,
 
The Freethought Equality Fund, the political action committee of the Center for Freethought Equality, has endorsed five excellent candidates who are running for re-election or for open blue seats in the Colorado State House.
 
Chris Kennedy, Cathy Kipp, and Brianna Titone are running for re-election, and  Judy Amabile and Karen McCormick are running for seats in which the current Democratic incumbent is term-limited. Please support these endorsed candidates - their websites and donation links are below as are their bios. Please be extra generous with Brianna Titone -- she is in a very tight race -- in 2018 she won by only 438 votes! You can see all our 2020 endorsed candidates here[[link removed]]. 
 
[freethoughtequality.org/endorsements-2020/]
Judy Amabile - campaign website[[link removed]] - donation page[[link removed]] Chris Kennedy - campaign website[[link removed]] - donation page[[link removed]] Cathy Kipp - campaign website[[link removed]] - donation page[[link removed]] Karen McCormick - campaign website[[link removed]] - donation page[[link removed]] Brianna Titone - campaign website[[link removed]] - donation page[[link removed]]
 
Judy Amabile[[link removed]] is running for the Colorado State House in District 13. As an entrepreneur, employer, mother, and hardworking community activist, Amabile is known for creative problem solving, open-mindedness, and pragmatism. She is skilled at bringing people together, building consensus, and getting things done. Her policy priorities include increasing the minimum wage to a living wage and providing paid family leave, addressing climate change and curtailing the power of the oil and gas industry, transitioning to a single payer healthcare system and advancing effective treatment for people with mental illness, and strengthening societal pillars of housing, education, transportation, union safeguards, criminal justice, internet access, and banking fairness to solve economic injustices. Amabile is a recovering Catholic and an atheist.
 
Chris Kennedy[[link removed]] is running for re-election to the Colorado State House in District 23. Raised without religion in his life, Kennedy identifies as agnostic. After leaving his first career as a structural engineer, he started working on campaigns and at the Colorado State Capitol before running for office himself in 2016. Kennedy is “committed to making sure every Coloradan who works hard and does their fair share has every opportunity to succeed and build a life here. For me, that means investing in education and infrastructure, working to make health care and housing more affordable, supporting the long struggle for equal rights for everybody, and protecting our air, water, and land for the next generation.” His colleagues elected him to be the Assistant Majority Leader and he serves as Chair of the Committee on State, Veterans, and Military Affairs and is a member of the Appropriations Committee.
 
Cathy Kipp[[link removed]] is running for the Colorado State House in District 52. Having served seven years as a school board member, including leadership positions as board Vice President and President, Kipp was appointed to the state house in 2019 to complete the term of the former incumbent who is now a state senator. In her first term she has focused on working for public education, improving the environment, fighting climate change, and finding solutions for Colorado’s unique fiscal challenges. She and her colleagues were “able to move forward on measures to lower the cost of health care, invest in education, build a fair economy, address climate change, tackle the opioid crisis, reform our criminal justice system, and help hardworking Coloradans get ahead.” She is looking forward to continuing her work to improve education, healthcare, infrastructure, and the environment for her constituents and all the people of Colorado. Kipp does not belong to any organized religion. She says, “I respect other people’s religious choices and don’t generally discuss my beliefs or lack thereof. I believe church and state should be separate.”
 
Karen McCormick[[link removed]] is running for the Colorado State House in District 11. She grew up in a career Navy family with a father who served 30 years in the Navy retiring as a Rear Admiral. Through her family and experiences she “learned the meaning of service, respect, integrity and dedication to American values.” Dr. McCormick has lived these values and demonstrated her commitment to service as a veterinarian, small business owner, teacher, advocate, and mom, who “is passionate about Colorado and working for policies that will help families and our community.” As a member of the legislature she will “continue to advocate for families, health care, education, LGBTQ rights, reproductive rights, economic opportunity for all, the future of our planet, and more.” McCormick is spiritual but not religious.
 
Brianna Titone[[link removed]] is running for re-election to the Colorado State House in District 27. A geologist and first-term legislator, Titone loves the open space and wants to preserve it by helping Colorado reach 100% renewable energy. She believes that “more people are needed in government that don’t just follow their agenda, but listen to their constituents and hear their concerns.” She is also passionate about developing smart transportation solutions, funding teachers and public schools fairly, attainable housing and a living wage, a single-payer healthcare system and addressing the opioid crisis, fighting for LGBTQ+ and women’s rights, supporting veterans, better training for law enforcement officials, a worker’s right to organize, protecting reproductive rights, safeguarding net neutrality, common sense gun laws, campaign finance reform, and ending homelessness. Titone is spiritual but 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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