In a statement last week, Wilfredo Ruiz, communications director for CAIR's Florida chapter, said that the mosque had offered to pay law enforcement agencies for extra security, but they've been repeatedly rebuffed.
The novelist David Levithan, who collaborated with Mr. Green on "Will Grayson, Will Grayson," a book about two young men, one straight and one gay, who write alternating chapters, says that the Greens have built a close-knit group of "the people who you wish you'd gone to high school with".
Plaintiff Gregory P. Allen, head of the the ACLU's Redwood Chapter, says that public records requests revealed a long-standing plan to shut the event down within five years.
This chapter says that researchers begin finding and reporting that the transition to middle grades schools is associated with declines in academic motivation and performance.
The last chapter says that while critics have sought to "delegitimize" Mr. Gingrich by noting that he had admitted to an extramarital affair during the impeachment proceedings against Mr. Clinton stemming from the Monica Lewinsky affair, impeachment was truly "due to the fact that the president committed perjury in front of a sitting federal judge".
Leah Greenberg, chief strategy officer for the progressive movement Indivisible, a federated group of hundreds of local chapters, said that the vote was sparking an upsurge in activity, with at least 21 protests against individual members of Congress already planned and more likely coming.
Coralie Matayoshi, CEO for the American Red Cross, Hawaii State Chapter said that with the shutdown it would be difficult to estimate the level of donations that might come in this year.
Jess Dervin-Ackerman, the conservation manager for the Sierra Club's San Francisco Bay chapter, said that coal was originally not part of the conversation surrounding the terminal.
A spokesman for the chapter said that synagogues would be under no pressure to choose one way or the other, but that he believed most would consider more than price.
Ms. Brennan, of the New York Metro chapter, said that along with helping individuals with mental illness be heard, the campaign helps trumpet the issue in a broader sense.
