Word: podesta
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Though civil libertarians had expected to lose in Hand's court, they were still stunned by the breadth of the ruling. Despite the likelihood of a reversal on appeal, Hand's decision "gives Fundamentalists a two-year supply of matches to remove what they disagree with," charges Anthony Podesta, president of People for the American Way, the liberal lobbying group that helped secure legal counsel for a group of parents who opposed the challenge to the books. "The judge has stood the First Amendment on its head...
...Bennett winds up his second year in the job, some of his erstwhile critics have begun to revise his grades upward. Says Anthony Podesta, president of the Washington-based liberal lobby People for the American Way: "He used to be more a seeker of headlines than educational excellence. Now he is increasingly more responsible." Bennett may be ineffectual in getting legislation passed; indeed, both Congress and academe fault him for abandoning the traditional role of ombudsman on Capitol Hill for educational programs and funding. However most observers agree that he has been a resounding success at stirring up national discussion...
...most important trials of the last several decades." So maintains Robert Skolrood, executive director of Televangelist Pat Robertson's conservative National Legal Foundation and chief counsel for the 624 plaintiffs, all Christian Evangelicals. Anthony Podesta, president of the liberal lobby People for the American Way (P.A.W.), which is providing the legal team for the defense, counters that the case is a "hoax perpetrated by people who don't want the 42 million schoolchildren in this country to learn about ideas these people disagree with -- everything from divorce to evolution." The two sides are clashing in a federal courtroom in Mobile...
...sparks generated by the Tennessee case have drawn two powerful lobbying outfits into the legal fray. People for the American Way, a civil liberties group, has marshaled resources to help defend the Hawkins County schools. Charges P.A.W. President Anthony Podesta: "If the Fundamentalists are successful, they will have established a right to a sectarian education in the public schools." But to the Concerned Women for America, a conservative group, the case represents a basic fight over religious freedom and the right to control the education of one's children. In a fund-raising letter, C.W.A. Founder Beverly LaHaye called...
...could turn into a risky one. "Morality is a very dangerous issue for the Republican Party," says William Schneider, a political analyst at the conservative American Enterprise Institute. "Religion is to Republicans what race is to Democrats. Religion could tear the G.O.P. apart in the next election." Tony Podesta, executive director of People for the American Way, which was formed as a foil to Falwell's Moral Majority, says that Republicans are in danger of becoming dominated by a narrow segment of the ideologi- cal spectrum. "In many places," he says, "the Republican Party machine thought it would be good...