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It resulted in a front-page story in The New York Times, penned by Richard L. Weeks earlier, Dole agreed to co-sponsor the legislation after a meeting with Tafel at the campaign's headquarters. At the event where it was given, Dole had personally spoken with LCR's then-executive director, Rich Tafel, about the group and about AIDS legislation it was promoting in the Senate. The campaign sent a written statement to Price saying that Dole was in "100% disagreement with the agenda of the Log Cabin Republicans." The finance office of the campaign had solicited the contribution from LCR. The campaign returned the contribution after the openly lesbian columnist, Deb Price, of the Detroit News, asked about it after she saw it on a public report from the Federal Elections Commission. In August 1995, the campaign of Republican presidential candidate, Bob Dole, returned the LCR's $1,000 campaign contribution. The group voted to deny that endorsement because Bush did not denounce anti-gay rhetoric at the 1992 Republican National Convention. The main point of discussion was whether or not LCR would endorse the re-election of President George H. The 1992 Log Cabin Republican convention was held in Spring, Texas, a Houston exurb. These principles, Log Cabin argues, are consistent with their platform of an inclusive Republican Party. The Log Cabin Republicans suggest that Lincoln founded the Republican Party on the philosophies of liberty and equality. This designation calls attention to the first Republican president, Abraham Lincoln. The group initially proposed to name themselves Lincoln Club, but found that name was already in use by the Lincoln Club of Orange County, another California Republican organization, so the name Log Cabin Republicans was chosen as an alternative title. In the midst of this victory, gay conservatives in California created the Log Cabin Republicans. Reagan's condemnation of the bill-epitomized in a letter sent to a pro-Briggs group, excerpts of which were re-printed in the San Francisco Chronicle in 1978-played an influential role in the eventual defeat of the Briggs Initiative. While mounting his imminent presidential campaign, Ronald Reagan publicly expressed his opposition to the discriminatory policy. In addition to sanctioning the termination of openly gay and lesbian teachers, the proposed legislation authorized the firing of those teachers who publicly "supported" homosexuality. Log Cabin Republicans was founded in 1977 in California as a rallying point for Republicans opposed to the Briggs Initiative, which attempted to ban homosexuals from teaching in public schools.