FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) – A Maine public relations firm has been tapped to assist a grassroots effort aimed at stopping George W. Bush’s presidential library, museum and think tank from being built at Southern Methodist University in Dallas.

The Rev. Andrew Weaver, an SMU graduate from New York, says P&S Associates of Maine LLC has been hired to design ads and to coordinate the effort.

Weaver says the goal is to inform people about the partisan think tank, which won’t be under SMU’s control and will promote the Bush administration’s policies.

He says P&S Associates is led by Stephen Swecker. Swecker is also editor and publisher of The Progressive Christian. Swecker declined comment Thursday.

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