AFA of PA ACTION ALERT

March 10, 2009

1.)     Vote on David Ogden for U.S. Deputy Attorney General Wednesday

2.)    Kansas Governor Sebelius is Not a Good Choice for HHS

1.)     Why should David Ogden’s nomination be opposed? 

·        Ogden has not just represented major pornographers in prominent cases; he has been a leader in an effort to get courts to proclaim greater protections for pornography and pornographers. 

·        He VOLUNTEERED to represent plaintiff’s challenging the Children’s Internet Protection Act, which was designed to protect children by keeping pornography from school and public library computers.  He insisted that the Congress, which voted overwhelmingly in favor of the act, was acting unconstitutionally in passing CIPA

·        Ogden filed a brief before the U.S. Supreme Court in the child pornography case, U.S. v. Knox.  In the disgusting films involved in Knox, children were posed so that the focus of the camera was on their genital areas though they were not completely naked.  The films were a pedophile’s dream.  Ogden argued that such material is protected by the U.S. Constitution and that Knox should be acquitted. 

·        There are other issues that Ogden has prominently championed such as abortion and homosexuality

2.)     President Obama has nominated Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius to be his Secretary of Health and Human Services.  Operation Rescue which is headquartered in Wichita, Kansas knows first hand just how bad this nomination is.   According to them

·        In an interview published twenty years ago on October 29, 1989, in the Wichita Eagle, Sebelius, who was then a member of the Kansas House of Representatives said, “I think for me and a lot of other people, there are certain inalienable rights established for a person, but those are not applied in utero.”

·        Sebelius has ties to late-term abortionist George R. Tiller, who is currently facing 19 criminal counts of having committed illegal late-term abortions. To understand how radical her support for Tiller truly is, it is important to understand what kind of abortion business Tiller operates – he aborts to day of birth; has an on site Nazi-like crematorium where the babies’ bodies are burned; baptizes aborted babies in phony religious ceremonies

·        She opposed a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage in Kansas, saying it was not needed (there was an existing state law already banning gay marriage) and that it went 'far beyond the bounds of that law.' The constitutional amendment passed with 69 percent of the vote in 2005...Sebelius was a guest speaker at the Stonewall Democrats annual meeting in Denver last August, just prior to the Democratic National Convention."

ACTION NEEDED: 

1.)    The final vote on the Ogden nomination is scheduled for March 11^th.  Please contact Senator’s Specter and Casey and ask them to oppose both the Ogden and Sebelius nominations.  Please contact both their D.C. office and the district office nearest you.  Here’s the contact info:

Senator Specter’s D.C. number is 202-224-4254; fax number 202-228-1229
Allentown District Office phone is 610-434-1444; Fax # is 610-434-1844
Erie District Office phone - 814-453-3010; fax # 814-455-9925
Harrisburg District Office phone - 717-782-3951; fax # 717-782-4920
Philadelphia District Office phone - 215-597-7200; fax # 215-597-0406
Pittsburgh District Office phone - 412-644-3400; fax # 412-644-4871
Scranton District Office phone - 570-346-2006; fax # 570-346-8499
Wilkes-Barre District Office phone - 570-826-6265; no fax number listed

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Senator Casey’s D.C. number is (202) 224-6324; Toll Free: (866) 802-2833;
Fax: (202) 228-0604
Harrisburg District Office phone is (717) 231-7540 Toll Free: (866) 461-9159;
Fax: (717) 231-7542
Philadelphia District Office phone- (215) 405-9660; Fax: (215) 405-9669
Pittsburgh District Office phone - (412) 803-7370; Fax: (412) 803-7379
Scranton District Office phone - (570) 941-0930; Fax: (570) 941-0937
Erie District Office phone - (814) 874-5080; Fax: (814) 874-5084
Bellefonte District Office phone - (814) 357-0314; Fax: (814) 357-0318
Allentown District Office phone - (610) 782-9470; Fax: (610) 782-9474

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