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- From: waveland@carson.u.washington.edu (Eric Holeman)
- Newsgroups: soc.motss
- Subject: Re: Attention Skiers Boycotting Colorado
- Date: 30 Dec 1992 10:32:14 GMT
- Organization: University of Washington
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- In article <1992Dec30.054928.20095@spdcc.com> rdonahue@spdcc.com
- (Bob Donahue) writes:
-
- > All well and good --- I fail to see why then, that so
- >many Coloradoans and Colorado businesses are spending more time
-
- And money;--those full-page New York Times ads aren't cheap...
-
- >telling us why we shouldn't penalize them for CO:2 than they
- >are screaming to the power that be to have it removed.
-
- Amen. Sorry guys; shoulda spent the money and effort before the
- election when it would've done some good.
-
- > 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.
-
- Yep. To put it another way, If Denver had voted 100% against
- 2, it would've failed.
-
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