PRESS RELEASE from Rick Santorum
for President
SOCIAL CONSERVATIVE LEADER GARY BAUER JOINS THE FIGHT WITH SANTORUM
Conservatives Continue To Coalesce Behind Santorum
Greenville, SC - Republican Presidential Candidate Rick Santorum has received the endorsement of prominent conservative leader Gary Bauer.
Gary Bauer said: "Senator Santorum has the character, courage and conservative ideas our country desperately needs. He can unite the GOP but more importantly he can restore American confidence and get out nation back on the right track."
Rick Santorum said: "I am thrilled to receive Gary's endorsement today. Gary has been a leader in the conservative movement for decades, spearheading the charge to defend the traditional family and the basic building blocks of our nation's foundation. I am honored to receive his vote of confidence today and am excited to work with him as we build upon our surging campaign."
Gary Bauer is one of America's most effective spokesmen for pro-life, pro-family and pro-growth values. Bauer served in President Ronald Reagan's administration for eight years, as Under Secretary of Education and as President Reagan's Chief Domestic Policy Advisor. Completing his service in the Reagan White House in late 1988, Gary Bauer became President of the Family Research Council and a Senior Vice President of Focus on the Family. In 1996, Bauer launched the Campaign for Working Families, a political action committee dedicated to electing pro-family, pro-life conservatives to public office. In its first two years of operation, Campaign for Working Families raised $7 million with 90,000 individual contributors and today remains one of America's largest conservative political action committees.
Bauer took his unapologetically pro-family, pro-life message across the country in 1999 and 2000 into the Republican presidential debates and primaries. Stressing the sanctity of life and traditional marriage, Bauer made family-friendly policies and combating judicial activism key platforms of his campaign.
He has continued to champion these and other causes at American Values, a non-profit educational organization Bauer founded after the 2000 presidential campaign. From American Values, Bauer has authored numerous op-ed pieces making the case for a federal marriage protection amendment and stressing the urgent need to rein in rogue judges.