Associated Press Covers Our Campaign in Defense of Father in ‘Elian Gonzalez II’ Case
Rafael Izquierdo, the embattled father in the “Elian Gonzalez II” case in Miami, yesterday expressed anger over the impact Florida Department of Children & Families’ new legal appeal will have on his daughter’s schooling. He explained:
“I don’t want her to fail second grade,” he said. “I thought everything was going to be a lot faster.”
Izquierdo, who a Florida court found to be a fit, committed father, is fighting DCF’s long, expensive, and highly-publicized effort to keep his five-year-old girl in foster care.
This week, Fathers & Families and I launched a campaign in defense of Izquierdo, and Florida officials have received thousands of letters, faxes, and calls from our supporters. To email and fax the relevant Florida DCF officials, click here.
The Associated Press discusses our campaign in Cuban girl’s fate left hanging during appeal (St. Petersburg Times & others, 10/17/07). Laura Wides-Munoz, the AP reporter, can be reached at Lwides@ap.org.
To learn more about the “Elian Gonzalez II” case, visit our campaign page here.
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Stumble It!
October 17th, 2007 at 7:35 pm
Constsant steady pressure is starting to pay off!!
October 17th, 2007 at 9:09 pm
Glenn Sacks,
It’s good news that AP is covering fairly fathers side of story. Usually they distribute or write negative stereotypes about husbands and fathers. I began to feel AP stood for “Arrogant Press”
About 20 years ago I became casual acquintance of AP reporter in our legsilature. He was nice, but neither he nor local reporters wrote positive stories about our six year battle for hoint custody legislation. Feminist argued that courts did not have a power to grant joint custody. Only sole custody to mother or father.
The AP reporter moved to New England and I called him couple of times asking to take alook at issues in that region. I never said anything bad or demanding. The last time I called him, he said sternly “Don’t call me anymore”.