Date: Sat, 10 Feb 1996 10:30:10 EST
From: TCCP00D@prodigy.com (MR ANDREW B EDDY)
Subject: Re: IOWA ANTI-GAY RALLY UPDATE: CANDIDAT



02-10-96 08:30AM
for your informaiton.

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   From: Log Cabin Republicans
Subject: IOWA ANTI-GAY RALLY UPDATE: CANDIDATES SPLIT ON AT
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For Immediate Release                               Contact: David Greer
February 9, 1996                                    (202) 232-5662


IOWA ANTI-GAY RALLY UPDATE: CANDIDATES SPLIT ON ATTENDING DES MOINES EVENT

Log Cabin Blasts Alexander For Pandering to Anti-Gay Group;Forbes, Dole,
Lugar Avoid Event

(Washington, D.C.) As the final weekend before the Iowa Caucuses nears, the
GOP field is splitting over whether to attend a nationally televised
anti-gay rally in Des Moines on Saturday.

Log Cabin Republicans, the nation's largest gay Republican organization,
issued a warning to all Republican presidential candidates earlier today
that attending the event, billed by the anti-gay group, Colorado for Family
Values as a rally to "protect marriage," would be "a disastrous mistake."

LCR has subsequently confirmed that, despite these warnings, candidates
Lamar Alexander, Phil Gramm and Pat Buchanan will be keeping the event on
their campaign schedules.  Candidates Robert Dole, Steve Forbes and Richard
Lugar, however, have confirmed through their campaign offices to LCR that
they will not be attending.

"Phil Gramm and Pat Buchanan taking the stage at this rally is no surprise
since they could never win a general election," said Richard Tafel,
executive director of Log Cabin Republicans.  "But Lamar Alexander has
shown how desperate he has become by pandering to this vicious, anti-gay
group, and I think it will seriously hurt him if he even makes it out of
Iowa."

The rally will be held at the First Federated Church in Des Moines at 7:00
pm Central Time, and will be broadcast nationwide on C-SPAN.  Log Cabin
Republicans is the nation's largest gay and lesbian Republican
organization, with 52 chapters in 30 states and over 10,000 members.


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