We approached several companies and asked them to sponsor a pr | Clip Artist Films
We approached several companies and asked them to sponsor a prevention program and give away product to help with prevention, to no avail. Believing strongly that we had discovered a way to keep kids off drugs we took even bolder actions. In 2004, when no one else would step up, we put a group together to find and purchase an insolvent home diagnostic company that had developed a rudimentary at-home drug test device. We poured money and time into this company, developed new and dramatically improved products. We used this company to make the programs we dreamed of available to kids and parents in Arizona and eventually across the nation. First Check donated about $150,000 and approximately 10,000 drug test kits each year to the program. In 2007, Inverness Medical approached me to purchase the entire line of products we had created. We sold First Check with a contract that the company would continue to provide the same program we had created to support notMYkid. That contract continues today with notMYkid. We don't deny that notMYkid extolled the virtues of home drug testing as it did from the very beginning and still does today. In fact, notMYkid's main drug prevention program, Project 7th Grade, aggressively promotes home drug testing... because the organization believes it works! Because of this program and its impact President Bush appointed me to the White House Drug Free Commission during his 2nd term. And here's the irony--while we owned First Check, we made test kits available to notMYkid and Project 7th Grade FOR FREE. And, they are still supplied today FOR FREE--even though we haven't owned the drug test company for 3 years--First Check continues their support for this program of notMYkid. We believe that this is exactly the kind of bold actions that more individuals and companies should take to solve such serious issues facing our children. The bottom line is: my wife Debbie and I would do this all again. We are proud of notMYkid and proud of the home drug test product line we helped to create and make available, through our sale of this business, across the country. We are NOT going to be dragged down by this "politics as usual." We plan to fight for what is right, and for you. We will continue to answer any questions anyone has on this topic, but in the end you need to answer one question: Were the Moak's trying to prevent other families from the problems they faced, or have they spent the last 10 years (only 3 of which they owned a drug test company) looking out for themselves? You decide. Deb and I especially want to thank everyone who has reached out to support us over this issue. For every parent out there who has struggled with losing a child to drug use, battled to get their kids back from an addiction, or have benefitted from the many prevention programs of notMYkid, we ask you to let the Quayle campaign know that attacking these prevention programs for over 100,000 students, their parents and faculties each year is NOT OK! Ben Quayle Campaign Headquarters 602 492-4236. Your friend and candidate, Steve Moak
Moak's media flak, Jerry Cobb, promised New Times last week that a "big shoe" would be dropped on Quayle simultaneous with Moak's response to his questions. We're yet to see any shoes drop from the Moak campaign, but Quayle dropped one of his own.
Quayle wasn't too impressed with Moak's response, saying that while it responds to his questions, "it fails to answer them." As a result, Quayle is seeking new legislation that would make it a felony to use a non-profit organization in any way to promote or enrich a for-profit entity controlled or owned by the same person.
"What was done with these two organizations was wrong and the non-disclosure of the connection was illegal under existing law," Quayle says. "But we can make the laws even stronger to prevent this kind of self-dealing and self-enrichment in the name and under the cloak of charity. People need to be protected from this type of unethical behavior."
