LIADA Newsletter March 2005
The Long Island Chapter of ADA supports Cynthia Kouril for Nassau County District Attorney
National ADA just launched a Blog that allows people to add their comments. If you have a computer, check out WWW.ELIBERAL.ORG.
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NATIONAL ADA
Mark Finkel attended the January national ADA meeting in January 2005. Mark reported the national organization had a net income of $15,924 for 2004 and a projected debt of $80,482 for 2005. National is organizing a development campaign to try to bring in additional money and members. It is important that we all reach out to our friends who are liberal thinkers and ask them to join ADA.
FROM THE NATIONAL ADA WEBSITE:
Before even being sworn in as the new Education Secretary, Margaret Spellings has already prompted two outrages from ADA. Quite a record. The latest involves threatening to yank funding from a PBS program, "Postcards From Buster", because lead character Buster visits a pair of lesbian couples in Vermont. The Education Department grant is supposed to be used to promote diversity. Seems reasonable that the episode in question does just that. But not for the Bush Administration.
In response to an Op Ed page article in the Washington Post, Amy Isaacs wrote the following: It is worth noting that ADA was the first national organization to oppose the war in Vietnam, as we opposed the invasion of Iraq and its disastrous consequences: 1,300 Americans dead, many thousands maimed and no productive end in sight. ADA did not, however, oppose actions in Afghanistan and does have a "liberal passion for winning the war on terrorism," . . . but we wish that President Bush had kept his eye on the prize: finding and bringing the 9/11 terrorists to justice.
LIADA joins in the wish that this administration keep its eye on bringing the 9/11 terrorists to justice.