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- From: rdonahue@spdcc.com (Bob Donahue)
- Subject: Re: Attention Skiers Boycotting Colorado
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.054928.20095@spdcc.com>
- Organization: insert anything here
- References: <1992Dec28.002329.7047@flood.com> <23033@drutx.ATT.COM>
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 05:49:28 GMT
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- kpm@druhi.ATT.COM (Kevin Malloy (DoD #106)) writes:
-
- >Also, please don't take this posting as my condemning the boycott of
- >Colorado. If I didn't live here, I'd be screaming for it! I'm not
- >about to apologize for Colorado, 53% of the voters did a very hateful
- >thing on Election Day!
-
- >It is unfortunate that a boycott of Colorado is going to hurt the areas
- >that voted no. Denver's convention business is going to be hurt, and
- >the City and County of Denver voted no 40-60%. (The Denver metro area
- >barely defeated the amendment though, 49.8-50.2%.) The ski resorts
- >such as Winter Park, Steamboat Springs, Keystone, Breckenridge, Copper
- >Mountain, Aspen, Vail, Crested Butte, Telluride, and Purgatory all no,
- >by wide margins -- the largest margins were in Pitkin County (Aspen),
- >San Miguel County (Telluride), Eagle County (Vail, Beaver Creek), and
- >Summit County (Breckenridge, Copper Mountain, Keystone, Arapahoe
- >Basin). But, there are only two ways for out-of-staters to show their
- >outrage at Colorado for passing Amendment 2 -- a boycott (which has
- >been keeping Amendment #2 in the news since the election) and by
- >sending money to organizations fighting Amendment 2.
-
- All well and good --- I fail to see why then, that so
- many Coloradoans and Colorado businesses are spending more time
- telling us why we shouldn't penalize them for CO:2 than they
- are screaming to the power that be to have it removed. To be
- perfectly honest, I have not heard anything other than the
- complaint issued by the city of Boulder that was co-signed
- by Martina Navratolova. On the other hand, though, there doesn't
- seem to be any shortage of people pleading for economic clemency
- on behalf of <fill in supposed supportive community here>.
-
- The fact is, that no matter what an individual town/county
- did on 11/3, the net effect was that more people voted for bigotry
- that voted against it. Even in such supposedly enlightened
- places such as Aspen and Boulder there were certainly enough
- people who voted YES on 2, that I could spin in a circle, pissing,
- and hit more than one. While standing in line in McDonalds, the
- odds are that either the person in front of me or in back of me
- voted to take away my rights.
-
- People who are worried about how my not spending $$$ in
- CO will affect them should have done some more thinking prior
- to 11/3.
-
- I would appreciate if people in CO would post about what
- efforts are going on in CO to repeal CO:2 (as opposed to the
- 4,516th reason why a boycott should be selective)... I realize
- that Kevin put a LOT of effort into No on 2 - and that he does
- understand the boycott... I'm just a little weary of every
- mention of CO:2 having some obilgatory statement trying to
- instill guilt in irate out-of-staters...
-
- BBC
-