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- From: mattm@apple.com (Matthew Melmon)
- Subject: Re: "Anger and Regret in Aspen as Boycott Grows"
- Sender: news@gallant.apple.com
- Message-ID: <mattm-301292150503@mcmelmon.apple.com>
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 23:14:17 GMT
- References: <1992Dec30.190512.11103@PacBell.COM> <1992Dec30.203758.26321@osf.org> <1992Dec30.212247.23843@lclark.edu>
- Organization: Apple Computer, Inc.
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- In article <1992Dec30.212247.23843@lclark.edu>, snodgras@lclark.edu (Bil
- Snodgrass) wrote:
-
- > P.S. Colorado, like most states is having a ruff time financially
- > with funding their state government. They also passed some sort
- > of spending or tax cap. So they want money.. There main tax is
- > the SALES TAX!!!! So if you don't go to Colorado you will
- > be hurting the state purese strings.... Let me see if you go for
- > a weekend and spend $1,000 there you will be donating $60-$70
- > dollars to the state tresurary....remember the state treasury owned
- > by the 53% of the people who don't want your kind.......
- >
- > Don't help fund a bigoted state!!!
-
- P.P.S. Colorado, unlike most states, is ranked as having the third
- strongest economic recovery in the nation (the first two being the
- Dakotas...). This boycott reminds me of the Queer Nation boycott
- against that retailer that someone mentioned earlier. The one
- where, in a year, there was a gain of one third in the value
- of the stock. It would make for a *perfect* Monty Python skit.
-
- MP: Right. Here we are at the headquarters of Queer Nation, which
- is in the midst of a boycott against Nasty Evil, Inc. Tell
- me, is it true that you purchased several thousand shares of
- stock in Nasty Evil, such that you could disrupt board meetings?
-
- QN: Well, yes, actually. That is true.
-
- MP: And is it also true that the value of this stock has increased
- over thirty-three percent?
-
- QN: Yes, well, that is true.
-
- MP: And during the period of this rise, is it true that you were
- engaged in a boycott of Nasty Evil?
-
- QN: Yes. Quite.
-
- MP: And so you returned a capital gain of nearly thirty-five percent
- over the period of one year?
-
- QN: Yes. Actually, we've rather decided to go into the investment
- banking business. You know, as a hobby, if you will.
-
- MP: Yes. Quite.
-
- *X*
- (California, by the way, is dead last - the irony, of course, being
- that Babs Boxcar is a rabid proponent of just the policies responsible
- for landing the state in that sorry position. It would appear
- that the Politically Incorrect may be bearing crosses of gold...)
-