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  3. From: sog@craycos.com (Steve Gombosi)
  4. Newsgroups: co.general,co.politics
  5. Subject: Re: Don't boycott all of Colorado
  6. Message-ID: <1992Nov17.173438.7141@craycos.com>
  7. Date: 17 Nov 92 17:34:38 GMT
  8. References: <1992Nov16.200650.781@colorado.edu> <Nov16.221119.53899@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU> <1992Nov17.164158.22880@craycos.com>
  9. Organization: Cray Computer Corporation
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  11.  
  12. In article <1992Nov17.164158.22880@craycos.com> jrbd@craycos.com (James Davies) writes:
  13. >In article <Nov16.221119.53899@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU> freedman@cs.ColoState.EDU writes:
  14. >>>In article <1992Nov16.195330.10398@ucsu.Colorado.EDU> taylorje@rintintin.Colorado.EDU (TAYLOR JASON EDMOND) writes:
  15. >
  16. >>I have difficulty believing that 54% of Colorado Voters are from out of state?!
  17. >>Somehow, more than half the population voted in favor of the ammendment.  Where are
  18. >>these people??  Last I checked, Colorado Springs has much less than half of the
  19. >>states population!!
  20.  
  21. It's even less if you weight it by IQ.
  22.  
  23. >El Paso County (which is mostly Colorado Springs) voted about 2/3 in favor of
  24. >amendment 2, 1/3 against.   There were about 50,000 more yes votes than no
  25. >votes in the county.  However, the amendment passed by about 100,000 votes
  26. >statewide, so you can't blame it all on Colo Spgs.
  27. >
  28. >Besides, it was all those northern-Colorado-Springs residents that did it,
  29. >not me...I live in the south end of town :-)
  30.  
  31. Me too!
  32.  
  33. >If you want to boycott anybody, consider boycotting Perkins Chrysler-Plymouth
  34. >and Colorado football.  The heads of both operations were prominent in the
  35. >pro-amendment-2 movement.  What would happen if a large chunk of the
  36. >CU student body stayed away from the next home game?  Or refused to buy
  37. >tickets for next season?
  38.  
  39. Probably not much...most of the proceeds don't come from students anyway.
  40. However, urging the TV networks to boycott CU football might have some impact.
  41.  
  42. Steve
  43.