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San Francisco Chronicle - Tuesday, August 20, 2002
The federal agency, which is posing the question to 18 AIDS groups at the request of several members of Congress, will get the same answer from Project Inform, a national AIDS advocacy group headquartered in San Francisco, a spokeswoman said Monday.
Ernest Hopkins, director of federal affairs for the San Francisco AIDS Foundation, said the group did not receive federal funding for the conference. But Hopkins said the federal government often provides financial assistance to groups so they can participate in such conferences and there is nothing "untoward" about the practice.
In a July 17 letter, 12 members of Congress, including Rep. John Doolittle, R-Rocklin (Placer County), decried the "religious intolerance" of conference organizers, who didn't let the Vatican attend, and the "outright disdain" expressed by protesters toward Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson when they drowned out his speech with whistles and chants.
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