According to the Tom Sawyer campaign for the Ohio Board of Ed, Deborah Owens-Fink said in a radio appearance: "If you are Christian, vote for Debbie. If you believe in evolution, abortion and sin, vote for Sawyer."
No mention was made of who Indian Jim or members of the whitewashers' guild should vote for. A spokesman for the Sawyer team tells us "For the record, as a campaign for State School Board we are in favor of teaching evolution and take no position on abortion. As for sin, we are agin' it."
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