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What a difference from the congressional election in 2008 -- two years ago the candidate's views on ESCR played a significant role, and the advocacy communities were strong and vocal. In 2010 no one seems to want to talk about it In spite of now having a President who supports the funding, we seem to be further away from a U.S. policy that fully suoports regenerstive medicine. And in addition to loosing Castle, we are also loosing Arlen Spector in the Senate, (who became a Demorat and then lost the primary) who was probably the most dedicated and active advocate for ESCR in Congress. We're being told now that there is little interest or will in Congres to pass a stem cell research bill in the lame duck session., PAN advises us to contact our reps. and Senators NOW to secure their support for a possible vote on a stem cell bill or a repeal of the Wicker-Dickey ammendment, after the election. see: http://www.parkinsonsaction.org/news/unfinished-congressional-legislation Linda www.pdpipeline.org ---------- Original Message ---------- From: Rayilyn Brown <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Loss of Castle to a "witch" Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2010 07:24:07 -0700 Mike Castle one of few Republican supporters of ESCR loses to former "witch" Christine O'Donnell http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2010/09/stem-cell-cause-loses-key-advoca.html Ray Rayilyn Brown Past Director AZNPF Arizona Chapter National Parkinson Foundation ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn