ProEnglish Election News Release

For immediate release
October 28, 2008

ProEnglish endorses ballot measures in
Missouri and Oregon

ARLINGTON, VA – K.C. McAlpin, executive director of ProEnglish a national organization which advocates for making English the official language of government, announced the organization is endorsing ballot measures in two states in the Nov. 4th general election.

“First we urge Missouri voters to vote ‘yes’ on constitutional amendment No. 1 that would make English the official language and put it in the state constitution,” McAlpin said. “Having official English in the constitution is important to protect it from being thrown out by activist judges who want to substitute their own rule for that of the people,” he added.

“Second, we urge Oregon voters to vote ‘yes’ on Initiative No. 58 to prohibit teaching public school students in a language other than English for longer than two years,” McAlpin said. “The self-serving bilingual education industry has raised millions of dollars to oppose Initiative 58 and keep Oregon’s non-English speaking school children in linguistic prison,” McAlpin noted saying this meant that the ‘Yes on 58’ advocates would be outspent 500 to 1.

McAlpin said despite the huge funding disadvantage he expected the common sense of Oregon voters to prevail, and he predicted that the measures in both Oregon and Missouri would win overwhelmingly.