ACTION ALERT: BOYCOTT AFA! Send a message to the blatantly pro-Huckabee/anti-Mitt organization! |
Got this from Jeff Fuller (one of our bloggers here) in email, and wanted it to be a blog post.
Dear All,
I got real mad when I saw the AFA (American Family Association’s) 2008 Presidential voter guide ( http://www.afa.net/pdfs/08vg.pdf )
This is a powerful organization who boasts nearly 3.5 million members that subscribe to their e-mail listserve. They’ve been listed as the Fifth most powerful organization of the “religious right.” http://www.counterpunch.org/boston07122006.html
No where on their website (or in their email sent out to members with the voter guide) could I find any disclaimer that the AFA president, Don Wildmon, has endorsed Mike Huckabee. http://www.mikehuckabee.com/index.cfm?FuseAction=Newsroom.PressRelease&ID=351
The flier is incredibly misleading:
1) It has cherry picked issues that favor Huckabee over Romney (who are both strong social conservatives). They leave out every issue where Romney is a solid social conservative as well as those issues where Huckabee is strikingly un-conservative. It actually makes McCain and Ron Paul look more conservative than Romney, who gets a similar scorring to Rudy Giuliani. No objective observer would agree with this kind of “conservative ranking” among those five candidates. Something fishy is going on.
2) It’s factually incorrect. Romney has said he’d sign a Human Life Amendment as President if it made it to his desk, he is definitely not against it. Romney also continually railed on education that promoted homosexuality and homosexual marriage contrary to what the flier says. Additionally, he has said that he would not seek or support any new legislation regarding gun rights/restrictions.
That’s a horribly slanted flier and the AFA should be ashamed. I’ve unsubscribed from AFA and I recommend all Romney supporters do the same after this horrible action.
Please forward this post to any Romney supporters and to any AFA members that you know. Also, when unsubscribing make sure to send a seperate email telling them why you’re unsubscribing. They seem to love boycotting anything they find objectionable . . . Time to give them a dose of their own medicine.
If you are not a member/subscriber you can still leave them a message at this contact form link http://www.afa.net/contact.asp Or contact them some other way:
AFA
P.O. Drawer 2440
Tupelo, MS 38803
Phone:1-662-844-5036
Fax: 1-662-842-7798
AGAIN, MAKE SURE TO FORWARD THIS TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW! MAKE IT VIRAL! THEY NEED TO BE HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS SLANTED AND PROBABLY ILLEGAL FLIER! IT’S DISTORTIONS LIKE THESE THAT LIMITED ROMNEY’S ABILITY TO SECURE MORE OF THE CHRISTIAN CONSERVATIVE VOTE WHICH WOULD HAVE MADE HIM THE NOMINEE.
Sincerely,
Jeff Fuller
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