Please help us ensure that your friends, neighbors, and others in your state do not step into the polling booth without first considering their candidates' stance on torture. Here's what you can do:
- Attend campaign events and question candidates on torture.
- Encourage your friends and neighbors to vote based on candidates' positions on torture.
- Arrange for a delegation from your faith group or community to meet with candidates.
- Speak to reporters about torture.
To help you with these efforts, the NRCAT Action Fund has created a bird-dogging packet that provides advice on how to raise torture as an important topic during this campaign season.
Please, in October, as the crucial November elections approach, use the information and materials in this packet to help ensure that we elect a Congress that opposes torture.
We need your to help elect an anti-torture Congress! Please look through this packet and then take steps to put your candidates on record. Thank you!
This is such a narrow issue, wouldn't it be more effective to promote fundamental life issues such as pro life, euthanasia, stem-cell research? I think that a candidate who is pro-life, anit-euthanasia, anti-stem cell would likewise have the requisite respect for the human person that they would be against torture. You won't get much support from a broad base of electorate to make caring about torture a reason to vote for/against a candidaate -- but on the other, allied issues...
ReplyDeleteInteresting why you would not consider torture a fundamental life issue . . .
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