I just sent a press release to our media contacts around the state of Michigan concerning the DeVos campaign and their false claims of being misrepresented. You can read that press release here.
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When I came home from work, and saw the headline: DeVos Backs
Discussion of Intelligent Design, I knew I wanted to blog it.
Alas, I get the afternoon paper.
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Hardly a surprise, but still pretty funny. He claimed that his high school football coach started him at quarterback because of his leadership skills. His coach says, "I did?"
Except I think it was a different DeVos. As linked by
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rel="tag">Mark
Maynard, the irascibly analytical frontman for the
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Dick DeVos, the Republican candidate for governor in Michigan, has confirmed what we already knew from the report of one of our MCFS members in a letter to the e
Is it too late to correct the spelling of "devastation"?
Sorry, I'm a congenital proofreader, and things like that just leap off the page at me. It's a curse.
Ed - I never got a reply back on my email to Team DeVos asking them to clarify DeVos' position on promoting ID in the science classrooms vs. non-science classrooms. Will update you on that response if I ever get one.
Thanks Michael. And thanks for forwarding the previous reply to me, that's obviously what led to the press release. Been fielding emails from reporters all day.
Ed
Are you quoted in any articles? It's okay to brag a little when you get a mention in the press. :)
fred-
No, we try to have all public statements made by the board president, Rob Pennock. Whenever he's available, I refer media requests to him. If he's not, then I'll handle them. But I did write the press release, which I think is pretty good.