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Dear friends and advocates of biomedical research,
I've put together a first version of a website that provides voters with information relevant to the choices they'll be making 20 days from now. It's address is www.votecures.org. This information is far from complete and has some inaccuracies, I'm sure. I'll welcome your suggestions.
Thanks to Don Reed and Spandan Chakrabarti for telling me about important races and issuse, and gathering information about Congressional voting records.
You can directly visit the page about California at www.votecures.org/california.htm, and the page about the Presidential candidates at www.votecures.org/president.htm , if you'd like.
The task now will be to contact organizations ranging from patient-advocacy groups to the political blogs, and tell them about the "Voter's Stem Cell ScoreCard." Maybe they'll post a link to it on their own websites.
Here is the way this can work on behalf of our cause. Suppose that we know people who strongly favor stem cell research -- perhaps because someone is ill in their family or among their friends. But they haven't made up their minds yet about, for example, whether they'll vote for Obama-Biden or McCain-Palin. (As you know, there is widespread confusion about McCain's views on ESCR -- many people think he favors it.) We can refer them to the website and ask that they consider the medical reasons for supporting the Democratic ticket, namely that Obama-Biden will advance the search for cures more effectively than McCain-Palin will.
Likewise for other races -- there are sometimes sound health reasons for supporting a candidate: Jerry McNerney here in California, Jeanne Shaheen in New Hampshire, Al Franken in Minnesota, Kay Hagen and Beverly Purdue in N. Carolina, Vicki Englund in Misssouri, etc. And let's not forget Michigan's Prop 2 -- Don Reed has gone there to help with that campaign.
If you've got information that should be added to the site, or corrections of what is already there, let me know.
Thanks,
Raymon Barglow
Stem Cell Action Network
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