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Friday, October 26, 2012

Charles Darwin Supporters Protest Rep. Paul Broun at UGA Arch

The group gathered to encourage Athens, Ga., voters to write in Charles Darwin instead of voting for Broun, who has made recent religious comments saying evolution is a lie "straight from the pit of hell."

Charles Darwin stood in front of the University of Georgia Arch Friday, waving a cane pointedly at passing buses. A few times, he wiped his brow, moving his bowler as he did so, and lifted his sign slightly above the stoop of his shoulders. "Vote for me for Congress," Tim Denson, dressed as Charles Darwin, rasped above the rumble of engines. "Don't let Paul Broun make a monkey out of you." Denson was one of several people who put together the first "Charles Darwin for Congress" protest. After UGA Plant Biologist Jim Leebens-Mack started a Facebook page encouraging voters to write in the famous scientist's name in protest of Republican 10th District U.S. Rep. Paul Broun, who has no Democratic oposition, Denson took up the cause.  "[The …

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