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Goli Ameri's campaign website has announced that GOP House Speaker Dennis Hastert will join her for a press conference on Monday, August 16th at 9:30 am at the Benson Hotel in Portland. Joining Hastert and Ameri will be "a number of veterans troubled by David Wu's record on national security issues." Ameri has made her fervent support of Bush's War policies in Muslim countries a cornerstone of her campaign for Congress opposite Democratic incumbent David Wu. Indeed the Iranian-born Ameri has gone so far as confirming that she is not a Muslim (New York Sun, May 18). She went to extreme lengths during the primary race to portray herself as a "refugee" who "watched" the Islamic revolution in Iran. In fact, at the time (1978-79) she was a student at Stanford who, at most, witnessed the revolution on TV in Palo Alto. Meanwhile Ameri's hawkishness has sparked a contoversy in the Iranian-American community over whether she is willing to sign a pledge to oppose a pre-emptive strike against her native Iran.
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