Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Amy Klobuchar once requested a $500,000 earmark for Minnesota Teen Challenge, an anti-LGBT ministry that claims that Halloween, Harry Potter, and Pokémon are gateways to drug addiction (via Satanism).

The Minnesota senator sought the earmark — referring to the now-shunned practice of lawmakers diverting federal cash to their pet projects — with former Republican Rep. Jim Ramstad and Democratic Rep. Keith Ellison in early 2008. According to her website, captured by the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, Klobuchar requested the money for Minnesota Teen Challenge’s “Know the Truth” program to “expand their drug prevention education efforts for teenagers” for fiscal year 2009.

One pamphlet put out by the organization — first captured by the Wayback Machine in 2009, the year Klobuchar’s earmark sought to fund — called Halloween “a day set up totally for Satan,” adding that the “more people who go out dressed up like demons, ghosts, witches and goblins, the more glory Satan receives.” Its newsletter also detailed some of the “evil” things people do on Halloween, including human sacrifices and curses that left kids “sick for weeks” after the holiday, while “drug dealers were out in full force.” A note from the director intones, “Pokemon is loaded in demonic symbolism and evil power.”

Minnesota Teen Challenge is operated by the Assemblies of God, the largest Pentecostal denomination in the world, and has typically found support among conservative politicians. The Teen Challenge’s application from the time lists “homosexuality” among other “problems” such as drug addiction that the applicant may be experiencing. Aside from a handful of blogs and a story in the Minnesota Independent, which has since shut down, Klobuchar’s support for the controversial rehab program didn’t get much attention at the time. Her presidential campaign did not return a request for comment by press time.

The 2020 hopeful, who’s also made headlines for mistreating her staffers, is running on a moderate platform, opposing Medicare for All and tuition-free college. In 2009, Klobuchar openly opposed same-sex marriages, favoring civil unions instead. Recent polling shows Klobuchar at around 3 percent, which was enough to qualify her for the November presidential primary debate.