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Tuesday, October 31, 2000

• A commentary about Jewish singles in Israel, entitled "Looking Around: The Singles Among Us," has been added to the "Essays for Solo Singles" section of our site.

• A commentary from USA Today, entitled "Candidates' family values seem to skip singles" has been added to the section of our site devoted to our National Advertising Campaign directed to single and unmarried voters.

• Recent News has been updated with an article on October 27 about a new paternity law that went into effect in Ohio last Friday.  The law removes a presumption that formerly made a man the legal parent of a child born tohis wife even if the man and wife were separated and even though blood tests conclusively proved tht he was in face not the father.  Many states, including California, continue to have such a legal presumption on the books.   Also added is a story for October 31.

Monday, October 30, 2000

• AASP members can read an in-depth article entitled "Backlash: Why Single Employees Are Angry," which has been added to the Singles Friendly Workplace Campaign section of our website.

• Recent News has been updated with an article about a radio program in Europe carrying a story about our advertising campaign and how the presidential candidates are ignoring single and unmarried voters.

Saturday, October 27, 2000

• A new page has been added to our site.  Our advertising campaign has caught the attention of single people in the military.  As a result, we have added a new section entitled "Singles People in the United States Military: Let's End the Discrimination."  This section will contain links to other pages of interest to single people in the military, including a section devoted to essays by single soldiers and a section containing letters we receive from enlisted personnel.  
  
  

Friday, October 26, 2000

• "Domestic Partner News" has been updated with stories for October 20, 21, and 24, 2000.

• Recent News has been updated with a story about a CBS News Radio program known as The Osgood Files carrying a story today about AASP and its ad campaign.

Thursday, October 26, 2000

• Recent News has been updated with a story about the guest appearance of Thomas F. Coleman, executive director of AASP, on the Fox News Channel during yesterday's news hour with Shepard Smith, and again today on the same show but with new content, as well as his appearance yesterday on the Larry Elder show on KABC talk radio in Los Angeles.

• Full-page advertisements were carried in the most recent editions of the Village Voice and Los Angeles Weekly which were published today as a part of our  Advertising Campaign inviting single and unmarried voters to join AASP.

Wednesday, October 25, 2000

• A commentary from the Wall Street Journal about the failure of Al Gore and George Bush to properly answer the question posed by the single woman at the final debate has been added to the section of our site on our national Advertising Campaign inviting single and unmarried voters to join AASP.

Tuesday, October 24, 2000

• Recent News has been updated with a story about the guest appearance of Thomas F. Coleman, executive director of AASP, on radio talk shows last night in Washington D.C. and today in Springfield, Illinois.

Monday, October 23, 2000

• The Associated Press story about how Unmarried Voters Are Largely Ignored in the Presidential Race which was published today by dozens of newspapers from coast to coast.

• MSNBC has devoted a page on its website to AASP and its ad campaign directed to single and unmarried voters.  The page includes an interactive survey on singles and politics.

• Associated Press photos of Thomas F. Coleman, executive director, and Stephanie Knapik, public relations director, have been added to the website page on the AP story about our ad campaign.

Sunday, October 22, 2000

• The Associated Press story about how Unmarried Voters Are Largely Ignored in the Presidential Race which was added yesterday to the section of of site devoted to our Advertising Campaign was released by the AP nationally today.

• John Hagelin, who will be on the ballot in 41 states as presidential candidate for a variety of independent parties (Natural Law Party,  Reform Party, Independent Party) issued a formal statement today asking single and unmarried voters to support his bid for the presidency.  Hagelin took a strong position against marital status discrimination and outlined the steps he would take, as president, to address some of the concerns of single and unmarried Americans.  He is the only presidential candidate, so far, to speak directly to single and unmarried voters.

Saturday, October 21, 2000

• An Associated Press story about how Unmarried Voters Are Largely Ignored in the Presidential Race has been added to the section of of site devoted to our Advertising Campaign inviting single and unmarried voters to join AASP.  The story was released today over the Florida Statewire.

Friday, October 20, 2000

• "People Like Us: the quirkyalones" has been added to the "Essays for Solo Singles" section of our website.

Thursday, October 19, 2000

• We are running a full page advertisement in Student Leader, a magazine read at 1,300 colleges and universities throughout the nation, as  part of our Advertising Campaign directed to single and unmarried voters, inviting them to join AASP. 

Wednesday, October 18, 2000

• A story about last night's presidential debate and how Both Major Candidates Missed an Opportunity to Speak Directly to Single Voters was added to the section of of site devoted to our Advertising Campaign inviting single and unmarried voters to join AASP.

Monday, October 16, 2000

• A story about Dick Cheney courting younger (mostly unmarried) voters was added to the section of of site devoted to our Advertising Campaign inviting single and unmarried voters to join AASP.

Saturday, October 14, 2000

• "Recent News" has been updated with three stories for October 13, 2000.  One is about the continuing "marital status" gap in voting preferences for George W. Bush and Al Gore. Another concerns a ballot measure in Arizona which would help poor single people, and not just families, obtain health care services.  The third says that married voters are paying closer attention to the presidential race than single voters are.

Friday, October 13, 2000

• We ran an advertisement today in the Los Angeles Times as a part of our Advertising Campaign directed to single and unmarried voters, inviting them to join AASP.  The previous two ads we ran in USA Today were read by over 4 million readers throughout the nation.   Add to that an additional 1.1 million Los Angeles Times customers, and our campaign has educated more than 5 million adults in the nation, approximately 40 percent of whom are single or unmarried.

• "Domestic Partner News" has been updated with one story for October 11, 2000.

• Our Book Release section was upated with a new book for single women.

Wednesday, October 11, 2000

• "Recent News" has been updated with three new stories for October 10, 2000.

• "Domestic Partner News" has been updated with one story for October 6, 2000.

• We ran another advertisement today in USA Today as a part of our Advertising Campaign directed to single and unmarried voters, inviting them to join AASP.  We have large numbers of single people -- 80 million of us -- but we need to create a collective voice that will be loud enough to force politicians, corporate executives, and union bosses to listen to us and pay attention to our needs.

• The Letters Received section of our website has been updated with a letter to the editor published by a Philadelphia.  It was written by one of our members in Pennsylvania.

• An article from the Mobile Register was added to the section of our site focusing on our Advertising Campaign.   The article predicts that Bush will become president if he can attract single female voters without children to support him by showing how they will benefit from his tax plan and how Gore's tax plan offers them nothing.

Monday, October 9, 2000

• "Recent News" has been updated with two stories for October 5 and two for October 4, 2000.

• "Domestic Partner News" has been updated with one story for October 7, one for October 5, and one for October 3, 2000.

• "Book Releases" has been updated with several new books.

• Our Stop the Stigma Campaign in Delaware has been updated with a progress report.

• There is evidence that the judicial education in our Stop the Stigma Campaign is working, according to a report from Judge Ira Raab in New York.

Friday, October 6, 2000

• Helene Keeley, a Democratic member of the Delaware House of Representatives, has been added to the list of Elected Officials who are members of AASP.  She supports our Stop the Stigma Campaign and has indicated that she will introduce legislation in Delaware to remove any references to "bastardy" proceedings in the state codes and replace that term with appropriate language.

• A commentary about last night's Vice-Presidential Debate has been added to the section of our site dealing with National Advertising Campaign directed to single and unmarried voters.  The commentary discusses the fact that Dick Cheney has become the first major contender for national office to specifically refer to single people.

• The Letters Received section of our website has been updated with two letters responding to our advertisement in USA Today.

Wednesday, October 4, 2000

• Recent News has been updated with one story for today in which AASP executive director Thomas F. Coleman reports on the first presidential debate between Al Gore and George W. Bush.

Tuesday, October 3, 2000

• A Press Release was sent out today to major media outlets throughout the nation announcing the launch of our National Advertising Campaign directed to single and unmarried voters.  An Advertisement in USA Today will begin tomorrow and will be repeated once a week for three weeks.

• "Domestic Partner News" has been updated with one story for September 27 and two for September 26, 2000.

• Recent News has been updated with one story for October 1,  one for September 29, and one for September 28, 2000.

What's New -- September 2000